Karyn is a wonderful volunteer, although she prefers live in secret. Karyn does so many different things to help us out. She can do all of the typical volunteer tasks- cleaning in the Farmyard, taking care of the education animals, and preparing diets -and then some. We ( I guess the ‘me’ part of ‘we’) often pull her off regular volunteer tasks and have her step in to help out in so many different ways. She’s organized all our enrichment supplies, superRead more
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Behind-the-scenes Special Program: Bear Feeding
Every now and then the Museum offers special opportunities for Members to experience some behind-the-scenes aspects of life at the museum. This past Sunday, Animal Department Director Sherry Samuels led an enthusiastic group of parents and children down to the bear exhibit to help feed the bears (I tagged along and took some photos). Normally, visitors are never allowed to feed any of the animals! Each animal has a special diet which must be followed for their health and wellness.Read more
Christopher goes to School
Christopher, our barred owl that lives outside next to Max the Steer and Chummix the Goat in the Farmyard, recently took a field trip to a local school to visit some second graders. He had a great time. Sherry (the Animal Department Director) gave the students all kinds of interesting information about him (you can read more about barred owls here and here). The students were able to meet several of our eduction animals during a special animal program (IRead more
QuikPost:Yona bear update
The picture above doesn’t do justice to Yona as her hair has grown back in since her surgery in September. We expect to be letting Yona back into the exhibit in just one week! It will be eight weeks since her surgery and she is doing really well. Her limp has mostly diminished and we’re really happy with how things have gone. I was looking through some emails and blogs and came across a really great video that Karyn took backRead more
What’s for Dinner?
NOTE: I’m temporarily working part-time in the Animal Department! I love wearing my official purple shirt. You never know what volunteering at the Museum will lead to. If you think it is hard to figure out what to have for dinner at your house, imagine all the various critters at the Museum who want to eat. Preparing food for all the animals on exhibit and behind-the-scenes is a major task for the keepers and volunteers every day. Kristen recently wroteRead more
Kristen chimes in…
…about the previous posts. ( I could have left comments on each post, but I’d rather abuse my blog authorship privileges!!) Here’s our new ferret LadyBelle (previously named Tinkerbell) Just how many ferrets named Tinkerbell do you think are out there in the world? Karyn, our newest blogger, rocks as much as that landslide at wolves in the volunteer department! I hope she’ll post her ‘Auggie in the sheep yard’ video! I ( and by I, I mean Mikey) leftRead more