I am preparing for my trip to go get Yona on Friday. I will be reporting in on Twitter as the day happens. You can follow Museum twitter activities @lifeandscience, or go here: http://twitter.com/lifeandscience We’ll be live tweeting Yona’s arrival at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23yona, or click here. I’ll share photos on the blog over the weekend.Read more
Posts tagged: #QuikPost
QuikPost: Icing of the Bear Pool
It’s been so cold that the waterfall in the bear exhibit has been freezing over. You can see all the ice building up. It’s beautiful, but it can cause issues.Do you know what two issues we are worried about when this happens? Leave me your ideas in the comment section. Also, look closely at the second picture. Gus is standing on the middle pool which is already iced over.Read more
QuikPost: Yona is coming
I wrote a few weeks ago about a new bear that was likely joining the Museum family. This is the most current photo of her that I have. She was found as a 4 pound abandoned cub in February 2009. She went to Appalachian Bear Rescue with the intent of releasing her, but it never came to be. She never weaned properly and was more interested in the Curator at ABR than the other bear cubs she was being raisedRead more
QuikPost: New Years Day
Erin and Kristen worked this morning and I came in to close for them. They were kind enough to pull up most of the PM treatments – it made it easier for me. I believe they had some awesome volunteers helping them today, just like I did on Christmas. I am wondering if Kristen will make any resolutions for 2010, because 2009 resolutions were enjoyable to read about.Read more
QuikPost: female red wolf…Issues again.
The Keepers noticed some blood on our female red wolf yesterday. (#1227) If you look closely you can see some blood on her chest. She is acting totally fine and we don’t notice anything today. Since she is acting fine, we’ll wait until Monday and have our Vet, Dr Vanderford, check her out. Seems like something is always going on with our girl! Click here to read about her and our wolves’ physicals this past October.Read more
QuikPost: Ready for the Dark
They’re looking pretty cheery for a dark cold morning in the building. The Keepers from left to right: Kristen, Larry, Katy, Marilyn. At 6 PM last night the power to the building was turned off as expected for the upgrade. Everything went well and the generators were refilled with gas at 9 PM and 2 AM so they were still running this AM when the day started. Our freezers are cold and our reptiles are warm so we’re in prettyRead more