Our new female wolf is settling in, and can often be seen up top hanging out fairly close to the male. She’s got a history of irritable bowel and diarrhea, and so came to us with an interesting diet: logs of feline diet (that’s right, feline!), which is a ground up meat similar to what we feed the owls, and Prescription Diet Canine low calorie canned food. Our male wolf was on a Mazuri Exotic Canine dry food diet, Read more
Posts tagged: #Kristen
Missing Ozzie
On Wednesday, we made the decision to euthanize Ozzie, our Royal Palm turkey, who lived in the farmyard. He had been sick for a long time, and seemed to defy the odds on a daily basis. Up until this past week, he was his usual ornery self, even through what we strongly suspected was cancer. Late last week he started limping, and eventually went lame, and didn’t respond at all to the treatments for pain we were giving him. AsRead more
Volunteer Vox: The Scoop on Snake Poop
I was hoping to write my first Animal Department blog post about volunteering to help clean the bear pool. But, alas, the weather did not cooperate and the bear pool cleaning was postponed. But, I was already at the Museum so I decided to stay and help out with the off-exhibit animals. Maybe you didn’t know that there are many animals who live behind the scenes. These residents are usually used for education purposes (and sometimes they even get toRead more
Hello from Philadelphia!
I’m here in Philly for the National AAZK (American Association of Zoo Keepers) Conference and I presented my paper today! The presentation was about our blog and I spoke to about 75 other keepers from around the US. I didn’t trip, Powerpoint didn’t crash, and I avoided completely blanking out in the middle of the presentation, so I’m considering it a success! Beck helped me immensely in putting the whole thing together and I’m very grateful for her efforts! My audienceRead more
QuikPost: Sofia creates a chinchilla playground.
Our awesome volunteer Sofia ( actually this month she’s a paid youth animal keeper assistant!) made a new climbing structure of tunnels and tubes and stairs for our chinchillas this morning. They’ve been active all afternoon exploring!Read more
‘Possum pilling
I went around turning lights on this AM and checking on all our indoor animals, and stopped in the opossum exhibit, where Sonny and Cher live, to give them their meatballs. They get some fatty acid and cosequin supplements daily, and we get them to eat it in a little bit of canned cat food, sardines, eggs, or bread. They are usually ready and waiting when you open the door! To my surprise, Sonny, who doesn’t do a whole lotRead more