Click on the link below to read the quarterly report from the red wolf recovery program. Ask if you have questions! RedWolf_QtrReport_FY10-04Read more
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Yona’s surgery- it’s over and she is back
Yona has now been back at the Museum for about 1.5 days now and is recovering from her surgery to remove a bone fragment in her elbow. Read an article and see better pictures than below by the News & Observer- the photos are way better than mine (see the photo gallery for all the pictures). A few photos I took are below, as well as a couple of Yona back at the Museum. We’ll keep you posted as to when she will goRead more
Cassandra update
It’s about a month since I told you about Cassandra’s brush with death. She continues to surprise us and is doing really well. Her illness and issues are a mystery. Even after repeated testing I fear we may never know what the initial problem was. I guess this is a good problem to have: that she appears to be fine now. We took her in last week to for repeat ultrasound and radiographs (x-rays). Everything looked good. Below are someRead more
Red Wolf Transfers
I told you last week I would let you know about wolf stuff that happened at the wolf meeting. Thanks for being patient. On the second day of our Red Wolf SSP (Species Survival Plan) Master Plan meeting we look at all the wolves in the captive population (there are 178 at 40 different institutions). You can get a general idea of where the institutions are on the map below. The goal is to make sure every wolf has aRead more
QuikPost: red wolf article
A lengthy and inclusive article about red wolves and the issues they face was in the Charlotte Observer Sunday. Click here to read it, or click on the link below. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/07/10/1555761/gunshots-put-a-rare-species-atRead more
Big Word of the Month: Fimicolous
My wife Sandy, also a lover of big science words, passed along this month’s feature. Fimicolous is an adjective formed from Latin roots that mean “to inhabit dung” and is used to describe organisms that live in, on, and with animal waste. As animal keepers we spend a lot of time dealing with poop and you might be amazed at all the living things that utilize poop. Perhaps most famous are the dung beetles, a group of scarab beetles thatRead more