It’s Closer to Winter than Spring!

North Carolina might stay comfortably warm well into October, but I start thinking about blizzards and snowpeople by September. So in honor of “it’s almost winter, and Sarah wants to wear her comfy sweatshirts again” Day, a video of Elaina, Rocky and Patches, all wearing their winter finest: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCdm2b_XsbA[/youtube]Read more

Too much to carry…

Elaina, one of our newest keepers, has been learning the daily routine of Explore the Wild.  The daily routine is summed up as checking on animals, feeding, cleaning and enriching.  At the end of the day, we have stuff that needs to get put away such as the bowls for lemurs.  Elaina decided that she would carry everything that we needed put away at the same time to save time. Enthusiasm is a great trait to have as a keeperRead more

A celebrity visits

A few weeks ago when Duke and Carolina were playing against each other, the area had a celebrity visit. This celebrity decided to visit the Museum and check out some of our critters. Yes, that is the Travelocity Gnome.  Read more