Have you ever wondered if animals dream? There’s no doubt in my mind they do and a while ago MIT did research and found out that animals do indeed dream. Here is the article. Often I wonder what our animals could be dreaming of. Below is a guess of mine:Read more
Posts tagged: #Jill
Jackson Pollock
NOTE This blog was scheduled for the 28th of January, but it kept getting moved!!! Pretend its January 28th. What does this animal blog have to do with Jackson Pollock? For starters, its his birthday today and for those of you who have never heard of him, he is well known for “drip” style painting. Photo Personally, I am not much of a fan of abstract art. I tend to like the more traditional Baroque style like Rembrandt. Photo ThenRead more
A loss in the department
Sadly, I’m writing this blog to let you know about our most recent loss, Scout. Scout was a big part of my career here, he hatched only a few days before I started. We would pal around in the mornings together in the farmyard before the museum would open. You could call him and he would come to you, at night he would know how to get to his stall and depending what time of year it was you hadRead more
What is that?
Photo Photo Don’t think this is a Photoshopped blog this time, even though it looks like a zebra-deer-giraffe…. Well, I’m not sure what else it looks like. But, it does exist and is called an OKAPI. I chose this animal because it is interesting to look at and are recently declared endangered. Okapi (Okapia johnstoni) are more related to giraffes and they live in the forest. Science was not aware of these animals until the early 1900’s and a lotRead more
Back to the Farmyard
It has been awhile since I was last in the Farmyard. All the changes that the animal department has had for the past few months has kept me in Explore the Wild most of the time. Last week, I got to go back to the Farmyard. It was great to see all of the farmyard animals and catch myself up on the duties of farmyard keeping. Keeper Jill helped me reacquaint myself with the Farmyard tasks plus gave me someRead more
Bathing Birdies
The other day while I was closing the farmyard, it began to pour. I had to construct a makeshift poncho out of a garbage bag, because I didn’t follow the golden rule of the boy scouts and was unprepared. I stood there for what seemed like an hour waiting for the duck to go into his stall for the night. Duck, being the duck he is felt it was better to be out in the rain and bathe in hisRead more