He’s almost 1,700 pounds and stands about 5 feet tall at the shoulder (the height is a guess, he tried to eat my tape measure). Max weighs more than all 4 of our bears put together and can poop the combined weight of our baby alpacas every day! He has a well documented adoration of shoes and Kent. You’ll just have to trust me on the Kent part, or come visit some day and listen to Max bellow when KentRead more
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The Lemurs Meet a Mop Head
Who doesn’t like enrichment videos?? Cereal strung up into a cotton mop head is one of my favorite enrichment items to watch our lemurs interact with. Personally, I think stringing a whole bunch of tiny pieces of cereal onto a mop head is tedious and not at all fun, but the result is worth it. Below are a couple videos I took of the Ringtails and Red Ruffeds spending some quality time with their favorite mops. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCtJ5Sl1a0k[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZK_Thi36H0[/youtube]Read more
Both Wolves Howling
Katy spent a bunch of time at the wolf exhibit the past few weeks and she had her camera!!! Check this out: [youtube]http://youtu.be/Fch5pRuvmvM[/youtube] Read more
Henry & Galileo’s Super Bowl Prediction- 2013
The San Francisco 49ers go head to head with the Baltimore Ravens, so who is our woodchuck and opossum rooting for? A few years ago Henry was right Last year we had a snafu with the video and Henry chose incorrectly, but Galileo was right. Watch the video below to see who Henry and Galileo chose [youtube]http://youtu.be/ZqrN9iJmuHw[/youtube] Read more
QuikPost: Box for Yona Bear
I was going through old blogs and found one I hadn’t posted yet which was a video of Yona playing with a box. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0tsm9fr3I0[/youtube]Read more
Signs of the Season
Ranger Greg may have noticed the first signs of the impending season change back in August, but here in the Animal Department, we hold off until the middle of October to make our changes from the summer heat to the winter cold. We also have our animals to let us know when it’s time to shut off the fans and turn on the heaters. Scout, the duck, molts all of his old summer feathers to prepare for what would be aRead more