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Big Word of the Month: Hibernation

Spring has sprung. Time to wake up! Back in October keeper Marilyn told you about our woodchuck Wendy who was about to go to sleep for the winter. Wendy is awake now and following a daily pattern of eating and sleeping. In this month’s Big Word post I thought I would explore some of the scientific terminology surrounding what we call hibernation. People often assume that an animal that hibernates simply goes to sleep for a longer time. However, researchRead more
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A New Outdoor Area For Inside Animals

Spring is here and we are trying to finish work on an outdoor playpen for some of our inside animals. The enclosure used to be indoors and housed an iguana, so it needs some modifications for it to be usable outdoors. Some of these modifications include extra locks for security and replacing plastic wiring with metal so that animals cannot chew through it. It will also need some material put on it to provide shade. Once we finish that, weRead more
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why they are called BEARDED dragons

You may have read Marilyn’s post about Godzilla, one of our bearded dragons, and his new cage set up. Well, now that we’ve had some really balmy afternoons, we figured it was about time to get all the supplies ready for the cages to be rolled outside so the dragons can get some some fresh air and most importantly, natural sunlight. As we adjusted Godzilla’s cage and that of his neighbor, Beardy Jr. ( a younger female) there were aRead more

Animal Videos

We’ve posted a few videos of our animals over the months. Below are links to each post, just click on each one if you’d like to be able to quickly get to the videos. Bears eating. This is a time compressed video, as it states, showing our bears eating. Bear Hammock. This is a time compressed video showing our bears in their new hammock. Wolf enrichment. This shows red wolf #1390 interacting with some really great enrichment. Max running. ThisRead more
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Creature Feature: Misha the Red-tailed Hawk

You may have seen a recent post about Birdapalooza, an event held here a few weeks ago. The day-long event included programs that discussed different species of birds, including raptors. Keeper Jill took the opportuntiy to do a program with our red-tailed hawk, Misha. Misha was born in the wild, but in November 1991 he was brought to the Carolina Raptor Center in Charlotte, N.C. with an eye injury.The staff there rehabilitated him and taught him to sit on aRead more