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Creature Feature: Ladybelle the ferret

Ladybelle came to live at the museum in September 2010, and was donated to us by a private owner. She was already 5 years old when we acquired her, because she was born in August 2005. She lives in the Education Holding Room (EHR) behind the scenes and is used for birthday parties and educational classes. She is great at being handled, so she makes for a wonderful animal that children can pet. But like most ferrets, once you putRead more

QuikPost: Max and his stump

Kimberly shared the stump story, along with photos of the bears and the stumps.  Jim, our landscape environments director and deliverer of the stumps to the yards, caught this video of the end of Max’s initial meeting with his stump. Enjoy. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-nv5nhNrH8[/youtube]Read more

Yona on ice

With the cold weather we’ve been having recently (especially in the evenings), the moat in our bear exhibit has frozen over sooner than usual. We always expect freezing of the moat to occur in late January and through February, but this winter it has happened in December! Even with temperatures now getting warmer during the day and typically melting any ice or snow on the ground, the warmer weather doesn’t necessarily thaw the ice in the moat because it doesn’tRead more

Yona Update

It’s been almost one month since Yona had her day at the vet school.  Just about all of the reports are in and the talking continues to determine what the best course of action will be. We will almost definitely be doing surgery in late September when the weather cools to remove the bone fragment from her arm (her medial coronoid process – a bone in her elbow- has fragmented). As always, we’ll keep you updated. Check out the videoRead more

pup video

Again, no pups here, but the NY Wolf  red wolf pups are growing up. Take a  look at video of pups and mom from NY Wolf Conservation Center: http://nywolf.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-postRead more