I can’t speak for all of the keepers, but I do know there are at least some of my fellow co-workers who don’t particularly enjoy produce day. Produce day falls on Wednesday, when our new Lead Keeper, Aaron, goes to several different stores and buys an amazing array of food for the animals. Then, of course, all the food must be put away making sure to place the older stuff on top so that it gets used first. While puttingRead more
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Bathing a small car…
Yes, that’s right… I said bathing a small car. That’s because our 1,400 pound steer, Max, is almost big enough to be a small car (or at least it seems that way when you have 4 or 5 people scrubbing him down). We give Max pretty regular baths during the warmer months of the year. He really seems to enjoy being bathed and pampered and it also serves as a fun thing for our volunteers to participate in, along withRead more
Red wolf pups: it might happen!
Anyone who knows me, or has been reading the blog for a while, knows that I have a great passion for red wolves. After breeding season was over, I was sure that our female was pregnant. Being that we (the keepers) like to pick on each other and give one another a hard time about anything possible, I have withstood much teasing and joking from my co-workers… and as always I have appreciated their humor! Despite the fact that mostRead more
QuikPost: Video of the wolves howling!
One morning last week, Katy and I were in Explore The Wild when the wolves started howling. Katy managed to record it with her camera. It was awesome to watch them howling in front of us, so make sure to watch the video and have the volume up! (Special thanks to Sherry for spending 19 minutes of her time downloading the video so that she could unknowingly steal this post from me, until Katy stopped her and told her theRead more
QuikPost: Fun with enrichment
As I stated in another post, sometimes animal enrichment also serves as keeper enrichment. Last summer, the exhibits department donated the large stuffed horse from Play To Learn to the Animal Department when it was time to buy a new one. The horse sat on our support hall for a very long time, but finally one of the keepers decided to use it as enrichment for some of the farmyard animals. Obviously, this is an item that needed to haveRead more
A pleasant morning walk
A few days ago, I set off from the building around 9:00 am to go train the red ruffed lemurs in Explore The Wild (ETW). I decided to take a camera so that I could take pictures of some of our animals along the way. I first stopped off in the farmyard and was greeted by the two nigerian dwarf goats, Patches and Rocky. They are brothers and both like a good head and neck scratch from keepers and visitors alike, but thisRead more