Well, they may not be walls, because I know nothing about construction. But something is going up! Sherry recently did a post on the construction that is happening outside of our department support hall as we are extending the building. Well, yesterday they started to put up some of the bricks to the new addition, which is kind of cool because it starts to paint a picture of what this new part of the building might look like. As youRead more
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Keepers doing science
I walk into the vet room and find 6 keepers in the dark all staring at a blue bottle with the fluorescent light from our tortoise’s tank. Whipping out my camera to catch the action before I even know what’s going on, I realize that they are all attempting to determine whether the water sample before them is reading positive or negative. Every month we do water testing, and our wolf pool gets tested for e. coli. The test isRead more
Lightning training update
Well it looks like our newest keeper, Sarah, has officially become Lightning’s new primary trainer! The three of us (Sarah, Lightning and I) took several walks together over the last few weeks to get her transitioned and for Lightning to learn that she is now one of his trainers. Lightning has made great strides with his behaviors recently, including doing things that he would never do before. One of these things is walking over unfamiliar objects or substrates. For instance,Read more
Quik Post:Phone messages
Since Marilyn is terrified of ticks, its not unlike us keepers to have some fun with her. Ok, actually at her expense and when I say keepers, I mean its mostly me. Marilyn and I work different schedules so I left a message for her before I was off for the weekend. The little dot in the message section is a tick I taped to the paper that I found on myself.Read more
Tick Magnet
There are many joys to being an animal keeper, but as with any job it also has its downfalls. Pesky little bugs and bloodsuckers would be one of those downfalls. When working outside in the summer, we obviously deal with an onslaught of these critters. We become fantastic meals for mosquitoes, ticks and chiggers while we are diligently doing our jobs and not paying attention to what might be joining us as we work. I am known to have aRead more
Yet one more hurdle
As much as I love red wolves, Sherry often times sends me updates on the happenings inside the red wolf Species Survival Plan and Recovery Program. Sometimes she sends me good news about the breeding program, or maybe just cute pictures of our wolves like the one below. But recently she sent me an email about a news release that was disturbing. The release discussed the increase of a reward to anyone who has information about two missing red wolves.Read more