I did a post a few months ago about an outdoor playpen that we were working on for our education animals that live inside. We wanted this enclosure to be suitable for many different animals to use, and with some work we made that possible. Now this outdoor area can hold opossums, chinchillas, ferrets, rabbits, chickens, turtles, bearded dragons and alligators (not all together, of course!) We are pretty excited about having this new enrichment possibility for our animals, asRead more
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An outing to help wildlife
Keeper Marilyn and I traveled to the Piedmont Wildlife Center’s Festival for Wildlife this past Saturday, and took some of our education animals with us (and some other museum educators from our Science Education Resource Center). The festival was a fun fundraiser for PWC, who take in and rehab injured wildlife and get them back out into the wild. It’s nice to have a working relationship with a place like PWC; many of our animals here at the museum areRead more
Pile of gators
No, it’s not our new version of stackable kapla blocks–it’s just our American Alligators piled up under the basking light in their Carolina Wildlife exhibit. Alligators bask in the sun, or move to cool spots, to help regulate their body temperature. Their hot spot in our exhibit is from a 160 watt heat and UVB light bulb made for reptiles, so you will often see them hanging out under it. I was amused to find them piggybacking like this! TheRead more