Videos of Ursula

Here’s a couple of videos that were taken of Ursula over the last couple of years. in this first video, there was a particularly heavy snow that we got one winter and one of our previous keepers, Cassidy, got some video of Urse walking around and digging in the snow. Her thick coat made her seem oblivious to the cold weather and snow that was still falling at the time (you can see some of the snow on her back).Read more
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QuikPost: heading out…

I’m leaving  (very early) tomorrow morning to fly to San Diego for this year’s AAZK (American Association of Zoo Keepers) conference. The San Diego Zoo is hosting it this year. The conference lasts 5 days, and 3 days of that is an intense agenda of presentations by zookeepers, curators, conservationists and other renowned individuals in the zoo keeping field from around the world, along with several workshops spanning virtually any topic you could wish to learn about as an animal keeper. I’llRead more
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QuikPost: Yet Again, Another Quiz

I was doing a program recently for a Summer Camp group and one of the kids asked “what’s it like to work with all the animals“. I asked Jill, Katy, Kimberly, and Marilyn to respond. Guess who said which comment: (Kent took the quiz and got everything right). It’s Awesome, the best job ever It’s pretty cool It’s wonderful It’s a lotta lotta lotta work. All the answers describe accurately what it’s like to care for all the animals. KentRead more
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QuikPost:Jaybird update

Not too long ago I introduced our Blue Jay. I stated that I would update you on some new words if he learned any. He has learned two in my opinion. Unfortunately, its almost impossible to be able to record them because he is random when he goes into his babbling fits. The first noise is a noise that our baby degus made in the first few weeks. This is usually a high pitched scream, I ran into the EHRRead more

QuikPost: Lemur Tracking

Erin wrote a great post last year on tracking lemurs. Last month some of the keepers practiced their lemur tracking skills. Each of our lemurs wear a collar so that if they get out of their exhibit we can find them. I wouldn’t really let a real lemur out, so I put a tracking collar on a stuffed-animal and hide it somewhere.   This is what they found:Read more