It’s hard to remember Eno and Ellerbe as little ones. As you can see below, they are full grown year and a half old red wolves. So… check out these video snips from when the were about one month old. Brace yourself… extreme cuteness to follow and a month later outside of the den:Read more
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Flashback Friday: Yona’s surgery
I mentioned I try to take time on Fridays for some reflection time. My father had surgery last week. It got me thinking about other surgeries, which lead me to think about Yona. She’s our youngest black bear. She arrived at the Museum January 15, 2010, at just under one year old. We noticed pretty quickly she had a bit of a limp, and her right front leg had some atypical curvature. It didn’t impact what she could or couldn’tRead more
Another project with Engineering students
Another semester has started and we’re working, again, with students in the Pratt school of engineering at Duke. Two student teams are working on creating enrichment feeders for Dusty and Dallas, our miniature Hereford Cattle We’ve met with the teams four times, they’ve been out to visit, and they completed their first project pitch to their classmates. We’re excited to see what the create for our bulls!Read more
Flashback Friday- Reptile Enrichment
I try to take a little time on Fridays and reflect. Sometimes it’s about the past week and other times I go further back. I came across these two videos looking through old emails. The moss for the snake, and tomato for the turtle were given to the animals, then the following was captured:Read more
Pup Check Follow-up
More pictures from Monday’s red wolf pup check: Rocket, below, has been and continues to be our smallest wolf. He weighed in just over 13 Kg Monday. He is still smaller than his litter mates, but it is getting much harder to tell him apart. His behavior is fairly different however. Much quicker to come down to eat and he’ll sit in the side cage area and not run away immediately from his caretakers. Very, very calm, that is, untilRead more
A long time coming for this pup check
While temperatures are still high, the summer seems to have just flown by. This is the first Blog post in well over one month, and I have pictures to share of pups that are well over 30 pounds! We had our whole team plus an additional four staff helping us catch up our 20-week olds! It’s no simple task anymore getting our six “pups” caught. With 10 wolves in the yard there is a lot going on. Long story short,Read more