Every year the Animal Department gets together with our volunteers and has a holiday potluck. There is always good food and good conversations as well as gifts for everyone to enjoy. Here are some of the highlights of our potluck we had in December. Read more
Posts tagged: #Kent
Kent Steps in to Help
Compared to a “normal” 8AM – 5PM, Monday-Friday job, we have rather weird working schedules here in the animal department. For example, in the 5 days a week I work, I have 4 different sets of hours. Keepers show up between 7 and 8AM (sometimes even earlier on crazy days) and stay between 3PM and 5:30PM depending on their scheduled work week. Some keepers work Sunday – Thursday, some work Tuesday – Saturday, some work Monday – Friday and oneRead more
Grape Bonding
Last week grapes were on sale, it’s summer, very hot, and Aaron has a credit card. Aaron bought well over 100 pounds of grapes. We freeze them and use them as frozen treats for the animals. This batch should last us over 3 months. It takes quite a bit of time to pull grapes off them stems. I only slightly jest that I have never seen the keepers work so well together! What a bonus. I wonder howRead more
Lemur Tracking Drill
We recently had a Lemur Tracking Drill. Sherry informed us that two “lemurs” were hidden around campus and we had an hour to find them. Off we went… We then decided to go out to the parking lot since our signal was pointing us in that direction. Quickly there after, we found the first lemur in a tree. After feeling successful about finding the first lemur so quickly we decided to split up at the boardwalk. Sarah and I headedRead more
Giving me Grief
After our department meeting on Thursday I got a lot of lip from the keepers about the crappy pictures I take of them and then post on the blog. Forever, they now live with ruined lives because the only photos out there of them are poor and ugly. Obviously, I disagree, but we took some new photos right after the meeting. Here you go: A close up of Bugsy sleeping (he did not approve of this photo). Read more
Do owls drink water?
While closing one night I saw a barred owl standing in the water and pondered, What is that owl doing? A few moments later I watched as the owl took several drinks of water. I snapped some pictures with my phone and shared them with Keeper Kent who says he’s never seen an owl drink water before. Kent has been a keeper here for a long time so if he hasn’t seen owls drink then most of our readers haven’tRead more