I took this picture of our female red wolf one afternoon. This is new behavior our female is displaying. When we first introduced her to the exhibit, she sat or laid behind the den. Now, she is laying on top of the den for all to see. Read more
Lemurs get new toys, too!
With the holidays comes gifts of new toys! Thanks to a few very generous people the animals have gotten a lot of fun surprises! The keepers have set up an Amazon wishlist for items we would like for the animals and items that just help us do our job! Recently, the lemurs got a new puzzle feeder. Since some of our lemurs are very old, I wasn’t sure if they would want to interact with this new item. I putRead more
Squirrel Appreciation Day
(Disclaimer to longtime blog readers: most of this post is identical to the 2012 post) January 21st is Squirrel Appreciation Day. I learned about this day a few years ago from Michele Kloda, a member of the Museum’s research and development team. She interviewed Michael Steele, Professor of Biology and H. Fenner Chair of Research Biology, Wilkes College, Wilkes Barre, PA and learned the following amazing information about squirrels: Grey Squirrels maintain 2, 3, 4 or sometimes 5 nests in aRead more
QuickPic: It’s Finally Winter!
It’s never fun to dunk your hands (gloved or otherwise) into a frozen water bucket to fish out all the pieces of ice. I far prefer when the whole top layer of water is solidly frozen and I can pull it off in one big piece. Like this:Read more
Staring at Unicorns
Sometimes you walk into the office and this happens: Keepers Jill and Elaina, and volunteers Colet and Tara were all intensely captivated with something acquired from the Animal Department Potluck. It’s a unicorn! Well, a unicorn Magic Eye poster. It now sits up on a shelf in the office, captivating everyone who walks in and glances upon it…not that anyone has even seen it up there amongst the clutter…who knew a Magic Eye poster could blend in so well?Read more
QuikPic: new interns coming
Our spring semester interns arrive later this week. We usually have two students during the spring semester, but we’re lucky to have three starting on January 14. They are all smiles now… we’ll see what happens once we put them to work.Read more