Our pine snake eggs are beginning to hatch (as I type…) Read more
Posts tagged: #eggs
More eggs
Recently, a friend of the Animal Department donated some eggs to feed our animals. The animals that we usually feed eggs to are the bears,wolves,opossums and recently we gave one to the muskrats. In my opinion the opossums love them the most.They are real eager to eat them. Here is a little video I made of Galileo and Sonny Opossum devouring the gifted eggs. Read more
We have eggs!
No, not chicken eggs. We have snake eggs. Our pine snake breeding plan began back in January and on Sunday night the keepers found 10 eggs – 9 look viable. We’ll keep you posted, but we should have babies on July 19! Read more
Speaking of eggs…
Let’s talk about egg laying mammals- sounds crazy but it’s true! There is a very small group of mammals that actually do lay eggs. They are called Monotremes which include the duckbilled platypus and the echidna. Duck-billed platypus- The breeding season lasts from June through October. Male platypuses are polygmous, meaning they mate with more than one female during the breeding season. The females have two ovaries but strangely only the left one is functional. A typical platypus burrow entrance isRead more
Opossum snack
The other day I boiled some eggs for our opossums for a treat. Here is a quick video of Sonny and Cher grabbing their snack.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpgDEX31iqA[/youtube]Read more
Surprise!
Every keeper has experienced the unpredictable at some point or another. It just comes with the job when you work with animals. No matter how well we think we know our animals, they still randomly do things that will shock or amaze us. Whether it be getting themselves stuck in places that we never imagined they could fit into (such as our tiger salamander with his water bowl), or finding out that one of our sweetest animals is a pettyRead more