Rocky is a bit too short to reach the tastiest leaves on the tree with all 4 feet on the ground. So, after many attempts, he adopted a new routine for browsing. Previous to Rocky’s new found abilities, Chummix goat had been the champion Farm Yard tree climber. Unlike Rocky who climbs for more typical browse, Chummix only climbed trees for Poison Ivy vines.Read more
Posts tagged: #Sarah
Emergency Training: Making Darts
Do you ever wonder what we do on closed Mondays? (Today, we’re cleaning the bear pool). We do several Emergency Training Drills a year and a closed Monday is the perfect opportunity. I recently wrote about lemur tracking, we also do full on drills that include fake animal escapes and or damage due to storms or trees down, you might recall when Leslie played a bear. Today’s post is about making darts. We would potentially use a dart to sedate an escapedRead more
Lemur Tracking Drill
We recently had a Lemur Tracking Drill. Sherry informed us that two “lemurs” were hidden around campus and we had an hour to find them. Off we went… We then decided to go out to the parking lot since our signal was pointing us in that direction. Quickly there after, we found the first lemur in a tree. After feeling successful about finding the first lemur so quickly we decided to split up at the boardwalk. Sarah and I headedRead more
QuickPic: Ingenuity
Our handy office shelf broke, so we fixed it! Read more
Career Day
Most of the education work we animal keepers are asked to do happens on museum grounds in the form of programs, events and blog posts. Every once in a while something fun pops up and one of us gets to go out into the world to spread our knowledge to the sponge-like minds of eager children and adults alike. Well, maybe that’s pushing things a bit. This event wasn’t as much about “spreading knowledge” and “eager children” as muchRead more
What Happened to My Chair –answer
This happened. Here’s a link to the previous post with the question. Bugsy, our Holland Lop rabbit, lives in the education holding room and seems to shed large amounts of fur every 3 months and sheds less during the months in between. He is in constant need of brushing. The dead hair that easily pulls off of him in small tufts is typically a very light grey; which strikes me as silly since he’s a black bunny. Bugsy gets brushedRead more