I was looking for ideas to blog about and thought that I haven’t done one of these “What is that?!”in a while. I stumbled on a picture of this. Photo:Wikipedia I had never seen or heard of this animal before. I did a little reading and this is what I have found. As you can see, these guys have a huge nose that hang over their mouth. The purpose of this is to control temperature, it warms and moistensRead more
Posts tagged: #Jill
All aboard!
I was reading the news the other day and ran across this in several publications. Photo This little opossum was found on a the subway system in NYC. From the various articles I read people thought it was a huge rat and the riders had to evacuate the train. I am from NYC and would hope to know the difference between a rat and an opossum. Good ending was that animal control came and was able to re-release the opossumRead more
What’s in a name?
Photo Here in the animal department naming an animal can be very tricky. Not because we are stuck on thinking of a name, but usually its because we can never agree on one.Sometimes it can become a rather comical heated debate amongst passionate keepers(*cough..me). In the past we’ve done the voting process or had certain keepers pick certain animals names. When we had parakeets for our Math Core now named Math Moves exhibit, I remember we were happy because thereRead more
Misha’s Perch
If you have never thought about it,ponder for a moment what it might be like to have to stand on one surface forever. You’re probably thinking how uncomfortable that would be. Well, for humans it would be because we aren’t made to stand for hours on end and jump off at a moments notice. We are capable of doing these things but our body wasn’t designed that way. Birds are different, they stand for a majority of their livesRead more
Climb on in
At the end of the day, right before close, we often have a few minutes to ourselves and well… this is what happens 🙂 Actually if I remember correctly I was holding Dixie and Keeper Sarah presented her sleeve- Dixie immediately climbed right in and we of course had to try with Mason and Keeper Jill as well. These are the kind of moments that make any day great! Read more
How many bottles of syrup do you have in your cabinet?
I opened up our cabinet and thought how many people can say they have this much syrup in their cabinet. Usually, we have more in the bulk size! Never can have to much syrup for a bear.Read more