It’s been a pretty busy few days. We’ve shipped off our two wolves early this morning for their new home. Kristen is away at the AAZK conference and I need to go shopping. I go shopping whenever Kristen isn’t here. The first thing on the list is “100 apples”. Our bears eat a lot of apples, especially at this time of year. This is when my family eats a lot of apples too, as we are getting ready for theRead more
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Our new red wolf male
This is a photo of our future red wolf male- #1369. He is about 4 years old and he has spent the last 2.5 years at the Wolf Conservation Center in New York. He weighs an impressive 75 pounds. (our current wolves weigh about 55 pounds). Arrangements are being made for his arrival (I’ll likely drive up to NY and get him the end of October) as well as our future female, #1227. She’s about 6 years old and you’llRead more
Our Wolves are leaving!
About a month ago I wrote about the red wolf master plan meeting and the possible wolf transfers to be taking place. The plans are now just about official. Sunday we’ll catch up our boys and give them their physicals so they can be cleared for heading out to their new home. Monday we’ll drive them to Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. Our brothers will be held in an off site holding area at the refuge and remain part ofRead more
EnrichBits: Wild About Animals!
EnrichBits: A monthly look at animal enrichmentIf you’ve been enjoying learning about animal enrichment from these EnrichBits posts, you’ll definitely want to mark your calendars to come out to the Museum on Saturday, October 11 for our Wild About Animals event. Besides all the great activities focusing on our museum animals (meeting our farmyard veterinarian, reptile programs, behind the scenes tours, animal first aid, Hawk Talks and much more), we’ll be focusing on all things ENRICHMENT at Bear Overlook. You’llRead more
Our weekly meeting
Every Thursday at 2:00pm, we gather into our quaint little office and have our Animal Department meeting. This is time for Sherry and all of the keepers to sit down and discuss the week’s events and what is happening in the department. It is a great way to keep everyone updated on important information about our animals’ health and well-being, their diets and enclosures, new enrichment ideas and other things going on inside the department. For instance, some of theRead more
Weighing the Gators
The alligators needed to be weighed, and Kent and I attempted a new method—on a hanging scale. We do this every week since having a regular measurement of their weights helps us to determine that they are in good health, but recently they’ve become a bit harder to weigh. They are growing, getting bigger and stronger, and have been much harder to wrangle into the box that sets on the scale, so it was time to try something new. Here’sRead more