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QuikPost: Ah, that refreshing watermelon

Only 7 days away from National Watermelon Day! Personally, I’m glad there is a day for everyone to celebrate watermelon. I think it is one of the most refreshing foods you can eat on a hot summer day. Many of our animals seem to find it refreshing (or at least enjoyable), as well. Check out the video below of some of our indoor animals (and maybe even a keeper) enjoying some yummy watermelon. And don’t worry, Sherry, I put the keeper up toRead more
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Watermelon Day is coming

I know all we’ve talked about for several days is baby pine snakes, however, it’s less than two weeks until watermelon day and our goal leading up to Friday August 3rd is to only blog about watermelon and our animals with watermelon. Enjoy or fear the next two weeks. (We’ll obviously have to take some photos of pine snake babies with watermelons so we can keep you updated). We’ve written many posts over the years about watermelon. Do a searchRead more

Watermelon Day is coming…August 3.

Check out all that we’ll be doing to celebrate National Watermelon Dayon Friday August 3rd.  In honor of the upcoming day, for the 10 days or so leading up to the event, we’ll only be doing watermelon themed blog posts. In the meantime, check out the schedule for the day,  it should be great fun http://www.ncmls.org/visit/events/watermelon-day.Read more

What do the bears eat?

Bear food for one day Here is the Bear food for one day. 12 apples 6 oranges 12 carrots 6 pears 6 cups of nuts 12.5 lbs of chow (missing from pic)   The bears always get apples and oranges. Every other day they get either carrots or cooked sweet potatoes. Their extra fruit/vegetable  (which is pears in this pic) varies each day between pears, avacados, berries, peaches or plums, heads of lettuce, grapes or raisins, and corn on the cob. EachRead more

Ursula Gets Spoiled

On Monday, October 17th, Ursula received some special spoiling from the Animal Keepers. This video shows her enjoying the last frozen watermelon of the season (many thanks to those of you who donated watermelons to the Museum this summer). She also clearly loves the marshmallows and acorns she’s been given. The video is about 2.5 minutes, but worth watching every second (at least that’s what I think!). Pay attention to her large paws, how she wrinkles her nose, and howRead more