Again, no pups here, but the NY Wolf red wolf pups are growing up. Take a look at video of pups and mom from NY Wolf Conservation Center: http://nywolf.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-postRead more
Posts filed in: Videos
The videos are back!
Hey! I just noticed the videos are working again! So if you’re a newer reader, or you don’t actually like to read, you can now catch up on all of the old video action! Click here (or the TV button up top there) to whittle down the posts to the ones with vids. Here’s a list of good ones to get you started: Yona meets our bears Do rabbits love to throw things? Rabbits might really love to throw things!Read more
I’m outsourcing all of my blogging now
Who needs to carry around a camera anymore if we can just have our visitors and members take videos and pictures for us? Here’s another video that our trusty member Karyn took and edited, this time of Lightning. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBpwwp5ThBc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Again, if you have any great shots or videos of our animals that you’d be willing to share on the blog, contact us! My email is erinb (at) ncmls (dot) org. Of course, I can’t guarantee that everything sent to usRead more
Bear Aware!
Next week is Bear Awareness Week, and the North Carolina Piedmont Chapter of the American Association of Zookeepers (AAZK), of which several museum keepers and several keepers from the Duke Lemur Center are a part of, will be heading up our activities this year. Bear Awareness week is a week dedicated to learning about bear behaviors, spreading knowledge about bear species and their plights (6 out of 8 bear species are in danger of extinction), and learning how to cohabitateRead more
How Enriching!
Twas a lovely, cool morning last week and I was working in Explore the Wild tending to the bears. The bear enrichment that day was to put syrup in holey balls, and I thought it’d be fun to do it from the bear overlook and watch the bears interact with it. When I got up to the bear overlook, I wondered if I would run into Karyn, a member who I see around the museum quite a bit. I hadRead more
In Memory of Beaker
A while back Marilyn did a post about our off-exhibit opossum, Beaker. Beaker can also be seen enthusiastically eating a pumpkin as part of the pumpkin montage. Sadly, Beaker was an old opossum (he was 3, which is about as old as they get in captivity), and on Sunday when our vet was here he had a seizure and had to be euthanized. He had been showing signs of going downhill for that last couple of months, so while thisRead more