EnrichBits: A monthly look at animal enrichmentIf you’ve been enjoying learning about animal enrichment from these EnrichBits posts, you’ll definitely want to mark your calendars to come out to the Museum on Saturday, October 11 for our Wild About Animals event. Besides all the great activities focusing on our museum animals (meeting our farmyard veterinarian, reptile programs, behind the scenes tours, animal first aid, Hawk Talks and much more), we’ll be focusing on all things ENRICHMENT at Bear Overlook. You’llRead more
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Our weekly meeting
Every Thursday at 2:00pm, we gather into our quaint little office and have our Animal Department meeting. This is time for Sherry and all of the keepers to sit down and discuss the week’s events and what is happening in the department. It is a great way to keep everyone updated on important information about our animals’ health and well-being, their diets and enclosures, new enrichment ideas and other things going on inside the department. For instance, some of theRead more
Weighing the Gators
The alligators needed to be weighed, and Kent and I attempted a new method—on a hanging scale. We do this every week since having a regular measurement of their weights helps us to determine that they are in good health, but recently they’ve become a bit harder to weigh. They are growing, getting bigger and stronger, and have been much harder to wrangle into the box that sets on the scale, so it was time to try something new. Here’sRead more
Lemur TB drugs
I mentioned in a recent post about some phone calls I received, and I told you I would fill you in about my “restricted drug purchase” story. Here’s the story in brief. I order the needed TB test about a month before the lemurs’ physicals. I called to order and was told they no longer carried it. No worries, I called our friends at the Duke Lemur Center and asked them where they got their Tuberculin OT from. They toldRead more
The tale of the pig and the duck
Once upon a time there was a pig that lived at the town’s local museum. His home was in a farmyard and he had neighbors such as sheep and goats that lived there, too. Pig lived with his good friend Goose, but one day she passed away of old age. Pig became confused by not having Goose with him anymore, so Pig’s caretakers decided he needed a new bird companion. They decided on a muscovy duck, so they went andRead more
Tropical Storm Hanna
I told you I would write a follow-up about a drug order, but I got busy the end of the week watching the weather forecasts. We have been preparing for tropical storm Hanna, and while it didn’t look to be so bad, we made sure we were prepared.As of early this morning, all the animals were fine. I even saw all four bears dripping wet, and two of them were running circles around the dead fall with lots of splashingRead more