Poison Dart Frog Video

Kimberly wrote about Aposematic coloration last month. After reading the post, Rachael shared this video of our poison dart frogs, “wrestling”. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp9IqFdEyHE&feature=youtube_gdata[/youtube]Read more
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Gus plays in the hay

Really cute video of Gus playing in the hay a couple weeks ago. Sorry it’s not the best quality- you never have the best camera with you when you need it. (the quality is better if you do not maximize the screen). [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3lQydZv-mk[/youtube]Read more

Recent interesting emails

I received two emails on Tuesday/Wednesday that I thought I would share with you. One was from a coworker who forwarded a link to the National Zoo’s report on what the animals there did during the earthquake:   http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/PressMaterials/PressReleases/NZP/2011/earthquake.cfm   Keeper Jill happened to be at our wolf exhibit during the earthquake and while she did not feel anything she reported that the wolves stood up and started running around. The other email was from a fellow red wolf cooperatorRead more
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QuikPost:Yona bear update

  The picture above doesn’t do justice to Yona as her hair has grown back in since her surgery in September. We expect to be letting Yona back into the exhibit in just one week! It will be eight weeks since her surgery and she is doing really well. Her limp has mostly diminished and we’re really happy with how things have gone. I was looking through some emails and blogs and came across a really great video that Karyn took backRead more
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Bear Aware!

Next week is Bear Awareness Week, and the North Carolina Piedmont Chapter of the American Association of Zookeepers (AAZK), of which several museum keepers and several keepers from the Duke Lemur Center are a part of, will be heading up our activities this year. Bear Awareness week is a week dedicated to learning about bear behaviors, spreading knowledge about bear species and their plights (6 out of 8 bear species are in danger of extinction), and learning how to cohabitateRead more