Okay Sports fans, here it is. Another great opportunity to come out and support your local most favoritest Zookeepers and have a blast at the same time. Up and coming on the 29th of July keepers from the Museum, as well as Carolina Tiger Rescue and the Duke Lemur Center will be having a fundraiser to benefit Bowling for Rhinos a great organization that raises money every year to help save Rhinos and their habitats. What kind of fundraiser, youRead more
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Phun with Fobias!
Have you ever walked around a zoo or museum and heard people say things like “Snakes! I hate snakes!” or “I won’t walk that way if there’s a spider there!”. Many people (some studies indicate around 1 in 10 people) have a phobia at some point or another in their life. A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoidingRead more
Animals at the Museum…that aren’t ours!
So on any given day you can come to the museum and see all kinds of fun things. The exhibits, the fun and wonderful staff, and of course the animals in their habitats. But once in a while you get a treat. You see the museum is on a good bit of wooded land and has a healthy population of wildlife living on it’s grounds as well. So sometimes we’re lucky enough to run into all kinds of fun animals thatRead more
You had me at ‘Ology…
Okay guys, so you’ve all heard the big fancy words describing some aspect of science. Zoology is the study of animals and a big part of what we do here at the museum. Paleontology is the study of fossils and extinct animals that lived long ago and also plays a part in the goings on at the museum. There’s Geology (study of the Earth), Meteorology (study of the atmosphere), and dozens others. I can bore you just by listing them. Read more
The Farmyard is Closed…
Members of the museum are rewarded with several perks- one of them is being able to visit the museum at 9am- an hour before it opens to the general public. However, some of our animal exhibits aren’t quite open that early. Carolina Wildlife and the Farm Yard both open at 10am. The reason these exhibits aren’t open at 9 is simple really- we have to clean. Most of us Keepers arrive at 8am, we gather our food, enrichment, and volunteers and head out toRead more
Every day is a walk in the park…
So in my wonderful line of work I meet a lot of other zookeepers. And we all admit that we have pretty cool jobs. We get to work with animals all day. Some of us work with monkeys and some of us work with fish. But my job is the best by far. Because not only do I get to work with all the cool animals that the museum has, but I also get to work with the DINOSAURS! YouRead more