If you have pets at home you probably have tried all the tricks there are. There is the medicine hidden in the cheese,medicine in pill pockets and for humans you may have flavor added to your elixir. But, what about the animals at the museum? Chinchillas don’t chow down on cheese and reasoning with a reptile rarely works. At the museum we have to be clever, because sometimes the animals can eat around the medicine or not take it atRead more
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Black bears
Many times when I am in Explore the Wild I go the the Black Bear exhibit and will get an overall view of the exhibit. I do this mainly because I want to make sure I can get a clear view of all of the bears we have. We currently have 5. Below is a picture that I was able to snap that had 4 bears all in a line, Yona is the one that is missing. Sometimes, I overhearRead more
Gordon the gecko
On a Saturday morning a couple of months ago something seemed odd about our gecko. Gordon, is a Crested Gecko that goes by the name of Rhacodactylus ciliatus. This specie of gecko was recently thought to be extinct until a few years ago and is now on the endangered species list. They are from New Caledonia which is located by Australia and New Zealand. They are an interesting lizard that needs to lick its eyeballs to retain moisture and keepRead more
QuikPost:Jaybird update
Not too long ago I introduced our Blue Jay. I stated that I would update you on some new words if he learned any. He has learned two in my opinion. Unfortunately, its almost impossible to be able to record them because he is random when he goes into his babbling fits. The first noise is a noise that our baby degus made in the first few weeks. This is usually a high pitched scream, I ran into the EHRRead more
The Farmyard is Closed…
Members of the museum are rewarded with several perks- one of them is being able to visit the museum at 9am- an hour before it opens to the general public. However, some of our animal exhibits aren’t quite open that early. Carolina Wildlife and the Farm Yard both open at 10am. The reason these exhibits aren’t open at 9 is simple really- we have to clean. Most of us Keepers arrive at 8am, we gather our food, enrichment, and volunteers and head out toRead more
Update: Jean is a pain in the…
Jean, as you know, has been confined to the Exam Room to recover from her injury. She’s been on over 3 weeks of cage rest and now she gets 3 weeks of some non-jumping floor time. She’s doing great. However, I come back to work from being off and read the following emails. The first from Jill, and the second from Katy. **************** Subject: Word to the wise Gave Jean Rabbit exercise in vet room this weekend and when IRead more