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June 2013
- A Keeper’s Point of View, Part 1
- Missing radios found by bears
- What’s on Aaron’s leg?
- It belongs to…
- Goodbye and Good-riddance to Andrea
- QuikPic: Virginia Bear
- Who did that come from?
- What was happening there?
- Lemur Enrichment
May 2013
- What’s Happening Here
- Spotlight: CFO Debbie May
- QuikPic: Gus Bear
- Red Wolf Pictures
- Intern Bethany
- Emergency Training: Making Darts
- Nap time
- Lemur Tracking Drill
- QuikPic: Gecko’s old skin
- 10 mins with the Ring Tailed Lemurs
April 2013
- Silly Times
- Black Bear Paws
- A Goodbye Present!
- Naked Alpacas
- Career Day
- Join us May 4th for the AAZK Rummage Sale
- The Produce Bomber Strikes Again.
- Another Difficult Goodbye: You’ll be missed Chummix
- QuikPic: furry alpacas…last chance
- Galileo’s Field Trip
March 2013
- QuikPic: Happy Passover
- Both Wolves Howling
- Quiz: Any ideas?
- Spotlight: My Anonymous Neighbor
- Intern Update
- QuikPic: Caption Contest
- Accident Report
- Giving me Grief
- QuikPic: Name that snake
- Wolf Update
February 2013
- QuiKPic: Raptor handling
- QuikPost: Bad news continues for red wolves in the wild
- It’s the Little Things
- Intern Enrichment Project
- Do Jessi’s Boots stil leak?
- Sheep Update
- Do owls drink water?
- Trimming Duck’s Wings
- Chinese New Year: Year of the Water Snake
- Retro’s Teeth Get a Visit
January 2013
- QuikPost: Red Wolf Quarterly Report
- Animal Programs
- Bribe?
- QuikPic: They’re growing up!
- New ferrets are here
- Bat Facts for Bat Lovers
- QuikPost: Duke Lemur Center
- QuikPost: Box for Yona Bear
- Pumpkin enrichment
- Ring-Tailed Lemurs moved to the inside exhibit
December 2012
- Concurrent Accession
- If You Give a “Whistle” Pig a Pancake
- QuikPic:Rainy Day
- Christmas 2012
- Big Word of the Month: Flehmen Response
- Red Ruffed Lemur Training
- One Week until Christmas…
- Crazy like a Fox
- QuikPic: What happened here?
- Ring-Tailed Lemur training update
November 2012
- Spotlight: Jessica Culbertson
- QuikPost: Name that Bird.
- What’s been going on here
- QuikPost: some good news, finally, for red wolves
- QuikPost:Max Scratches
- 4th red wolf shot since NC loosened coyote hunting
- traveling companions
- Snake Enrichment
- A Training Quiz!
- QuikPost: new wolf is here
October 2012
- Largest living lemur
- The Answers…to my Day with Aaron
- What makes this snake the King?
- My Day with Aaron
- QuickPic: Goats on Spools
- It’s time to say goodbye.
- Galileo and his paper
- QuikPic: a college memory
- This week in ETW
- QuikPic: Aaron’s freezer attire
September 2012
- The end of the year (and a QUIZ too!)
- International Hug Kent Day
- AAZK CONFERENCE
- Photos from Explore the Wild
- Tiny visitor
- Time For a Tune-Up
- Chummix the goat/duck/rabbit
- QuikPost: Nope…not new tattoos
- Too busy to write
- More alpaca photos
August 2012
- QuikPost: Sea Turtle Surgery
- QuikPost: what’s that on Max’s neck?
- The Son(ny) Sets
- It’s Sonny out again…
- Big Word of the Month: Symbiosis
- Please don’t throw out your bears
- You won’t see this in the wild
- Meet A Biologist: Christina Kocer
- A Morning Stroll
- Lemurs in Crates
July 2012
- More fun with Watermelon!
- Watermelons for the farm yard bunch
- QuikPost: Ah, that refreshing watermelon
- Watermelon carvings
- Watermelon Day is coming
- lucky ssssssseven
- and they’re out…
- 3 more babies…
- WE HAVE MORE– 4!!
- WE HAVE ONE!!!!
June 2012
- Another visit from Dr. English
- The Bears- June 26.
- Opossums
- Senate’s Amendment to Farm Bill Threatens Red Wolves
- Endangered Species: 12 in 12 for 12
- 10 Most Endangered Species
- Happy Fathers Day
- Recognition
- All Grown Up
- To kill a copperhead…
May 2012
- Naked Sheep
- Struggles continue for red wolves
- We saw Chip!
- We have eggs!
- ANSWERS- Black Bear: True or False
- Black Bears: True or False
- Know Your Meme!
- Groundbreaking update.
- A bowl full of mashed chow and banana…
- Happy Mothers Day
April 2012
- Chicks are here
- AAZK Annual Rummage Sale
- Speaking of eggs…
- Candling the eggs
- Operation H.A.T.C.H- Days 14,16 and 17
- Shrimpcicle
- QuikPost: hoarders
- QuikPost: It’s here
- Day 8,10 and 13 of Operation H.A.T.C.H
- Farewell Mikey
March 2012
- Meet Galileo Opossum
- Teeth Brushing
- Thanks to all of our readers
- Bear weights…
- QuikPost: bear station quiz
- A work in progress
- QuikPost: Song of the South – Restoring and Protecting America’s “Other Wolf”
- Farmyard time
- QuikPost: quiz and so much more.
- So, what’s wrong?
February 2012
- Leap Year Fun!
- Poison Dart Frog Video
- Lemur Photos
- Friday’s Forecast-Sonny outside
- QuikPost: Cyclone Giovanna- a blow to Madagascar
- Alpaca Love
- Build me a house
- Lemur Communication
- For shame…!
- “Target” click
January 2012
- QuikPost: Pranksters
- What is that?!
- What do they do when it’s cold?
- All aboard!
- Pine Snake breeding
- Squirrel Appreciation Day
- QuikPic: Auggie and Lightning
- What’s in a name?
- Just a dream
- Aposematic coloration
December 2011
- Salamander Surgery: a new year with a little less
- What makes a lemur a lemur?
- I’m baaaaaaack
- Christmas 2011
- Zzzzzz…
- QuikPost: Christmas is coming
- Popsicles
- QuikPost: New Year’s Resolutions
- Bath time
- A horse is a horse…
November 2011
- Lemurs vs other primates
- QuikPic: Lightning and Max
- Let’s hear from you
- Tofurkey Day
- Reading this will only make you hungry…
- Vote for Red Wolves.
- Gordon’s a Girl!
- Lightnings teeth get a visit
- Photo-Journal: October Moon Wolf Howl!
- Bear Quiz # 3
October 2011
- Which one of these does not belong?
- Pick the Keeper!
- Bats: Scary or Neccessary?
- Interview with Sonny the Opossum
- Ursula Gets Spoiled
- My slideshow of Ursula
- Videos of Ursula
- Goodbye Ursula
- Libby & Marilyn bond.
- Soon to be destroyed
September 2011
- Back from the conference…
- What did you say?
- A new look (specifically, paint job)
- Animal ID Quiz (I think I can stump Greg?)
- The Case of the Missing Lock
- The thrills of working around construction….
- Clark’s Grebe
- Wondering why Carolina Wildlife is closed this week?
- Don’t Let Them Go! (Part 2)
- QuikPic: Chummix and Max
August 2011
- What a day!
- Magicicadas
- Poetry and so much more
- Recent interesting emails
- Enrichment at home
- QuikPost: heading out…
- Come to the Dark Side…We have cookies
- Education Holding Room
- Kindness is not out-dated
- QuikPost: Yet Again, Another Quiz
July 2011
- Shiver Me Timbers!
- Owls in Towels (or Bird Burritos)
- Red Wolf SSP meeting- I’m back
- The Need for Speed… and Rhinos…
- Black bears
- Phun with Fobias!
- Scorplings Update :(
- Quick Pic: Be Careful What You Wish For
- Red Wolf SSP meeting 2011
- Animals at the Museum…that aren’t ours!
June 2011
- QuikPost:Jaybird update
- A rare sighting
- Spotlight: Volunteer Karyn
- The Farmyard is Closed…
- QuikPost: Lemur Tracking
- Our salamander is famous!
- Update: Jean is a pain in the…
- Terms of venery
- Big Word of the Month: Farrier
- QuikPost: leaning tower of pizza boxes
May 2011
- Every day is a walk in the park…
- Red Wolf Quarterly Report
- Surprise! Baby Degus!!
- Degu Surgery
- Raisins Anyone?
- Last week’s medical procedures
- Scorplings!?!
- Quik Pic: bearbathing
- Bear Awareness Week!!
- Enrichment at work
April 2011
- So, what are you doing next month…?
- No Pups…
- Sheep and Waffles
- Max & Molasses
- QuikPic: Baby Libby
- Jay Bird
- Copperheads in your basement?
- QuikPost: Waiting IS the hardest part.
- Bathing a small car…
- QuikPost:They’re heeeeeere
March 2011
- Happy Birthday!
- Bear Fear
- New Education Critters…
- Behind-the-scenes Special Program: Bear Feeding
- QuikPost: Video of the wolves howling!
- QuikPost: Spring is here
- Quik Pic: Photo with new Blue Jay
- A Week in the life of the A.D.D.
- So you like the lemurs…?
- QuikPost: Headshot
February 2011
- See you on the other side of the fence!
- Christopher goes to School
- The trials, tribulations, and benefits of red wolf fostering
- A pleasant morning walk
- “I saw the sign and it opened up my eyes”
- heART health month
- No such thing as a Poisonous Snake… (Part 2)
- Worm on a string
- Today in the hall
- No such thing as a Poisonous Snake… (Part 1)
January 2011
- A New North Carolina Native?
- Creature Feature: Ladybelle the ferret
- Opossum ballet
- QuikPost: X-rays
- QuikPost: missing bear food bag found
- QuikPost: Max and his stump
- Exotic Pets…Not the Best Idea…
- Fun with a fake sheep
- Stumped
- You are now free to Explore the Wild
December 2010
- Yona on ice
- Shake, Pull, and Push
- Now I know why Christmas was so easy…
- Christmas 2010
- QuikPost: Manatees
- QuikPost: Yona and Pumpkins
- Ghosts of Christmas’ Past
- Delusions of Grandeur
- QuikPost: Snow Day
- Creature Feature: Salt the chinchilla
November 2010
- Video View: Godzilla Eating!
- Pumpkins, pumpkins and more pumpkins
- QuikPost: Red Wolf Quarterly Report
- Hall repairs.
- Trees for the bear yard
- Kiwi and Craisins
- Opossum snack
- QuikPost:Yona bear update
- QuikPost: What’s that?
- Poisonous vs. Venomous
October 2010
- yum! breakfast!
- Quoth the raven “Nevermore”
- Lemur Physicals
- QuikPost: Just beaming with development
- New Faces
- QuikPost: lemur structure is expanding!
- QuikPost: cutest picture ever?!?
- What is that?!
- Photos of Red Wolf 1287
- Red Wolf 1287 is here!
September 2010
- QuikPost: office visitor
- “How interesting!”…
- QuikPost: Yona’s mail
- Yona’s surgery- it’s over and she is back
- QuikPost:Mikey is worm free!
- Red Wolf update- 1227 is feisty and strong
- The walls are going up!
- Success is a beautiful thing…
- Keepers doing science
- QuikPost: Yona video
August 2010
- Lightning training update
- Hello from Philadelphia!
- QuikPost: new animals
- Quik Post:Phone messages
- Cassandra update
- Chummix training update
- What is that?!
- QuikPost: Construction outside our office
- Tick Magnet
- QuikPost: Sofia creates a chinchilla playground.
July 2010
- ‘Possum pilling
- I’m back from the Red Wolf meeting
- QuikPost: Farewell
- One week later: Cassandra the ring-tailed lemur
- Watermelon Sale!
- Birds of Prey
- QuikPost: red wolf article
- Big Word of the Month: Fimicolous
- Minor surgery for Chummix Goat
- What is that?!
June 2010
- Why I’m Not Where You Are
- Yet one more hurdle
- How intriguing!
- Biggest Bummer for Bloggies
- QuikPost: In the news…
- QuikPost: Personal Ad
- Big Word of the Month: Cyanobacteria
- Even Yona gets more mail than me.
- Busy week for Veterinarians
- Yona’s visit to the Vet School
May 2010
- Fostering red wolf pups
- Have you met the new rabbits?
- Mmmberries
- QuikPost: Your Daily Cute
- Big Word of the Month: Marsupial
- Do you know all the species of bears?
- Red Wolf Pups
- QuikPost: Exhibits are wildlife habitat too!
- Bear Aware!
- CreatureFeature: Sherry the Head Honcho
April 2010
- Some Days Suck
- Hey! Where are my videos?!
- Red Wolf Recovery Program: Quarterly Report
- Acronyms Galore!
- Red Wolf 1390 update
- Hurrah for volunteers!!!
- Woodchuck (and other) sighting
- QuikPost: A new farmyard addition
- In Memory of Beaker
- QuikPost: The picture I promised
March 2010
- Quikpost:Signs of spring
- Spotlight: Jill Brown
- You look awfully familiar, have I seen you here before?
- Chinchilla Chillin’
- QuikPost: mowing the bear exhibit- or not
- QuikPost: Enrichment serving its purpose!
- Big Word of the Month: El Niño , Southern Oscillation
- Money for the bears
February 2010
- QuikPost: Neighborhood Red Shouldered Hawks
- Junior keepers
- Yona’s First Day Meeting our Bears.
- Yona meets the other bears
- Don’t put a camera in your back pocket when trying to sedate a bear
- How to catch a stuffed lemur
- Quik QuikPost:Wolf howling recording
- QuikPost: Update on our female red wolf part 2
- QuikPost: Yona’s visit to the vet.
- Makeover!
January 2010
- QuikPost: Snow Day
- Cat in a tree, bear on a fence
- QuikPost: Preparing for bad weather
- Yona’s Visit from the Vet.
- The time is near!
- Nimbus update
- QuikPost: Friends
- QuikPost: Yona Update
- Yona Photos!
- Why The Difficulties for Yona (and the others)
December 2009
- Spotlight: Volunteer Jack’s Girlfriend
- Meet your new roommate
- Christmas 2009
- Opossums, vultures, and me.
- QuikPost: female red wolf…Issues again.
- Christmas is coming
- Where’s Nimbus?
- Big Word of the Month: Osteology
- Sneak Peak
- What are you talking about!?
November 2009
- new baby alligator
- Creature Feature: 1 3/4 wing barred owl
- Pumpkins!
- QuikPost
- QuikPost from the road
- Alligators on their way
- QuickPost: baby photos
- Meet Auggie
- Alligators heading out.
- A new look
October 2009
- More Out of the Pocket Than in the Pocket of a Keeper: Volume the Third
- Just friends?
- Help an Animal Shelter
- Spotlight: Queen Wilson
- thanks
- Rest in Peace Pig
- Pig is not well.
- In the Pocket of a Keeper Part Deux
- Oh no, someone’s in the bear pool! Oh wait, it’s just Sherry…
- Spotlight: Kim Wheeler
September 2009
- Box turtles are territorial
- Opossum Trouble
- QuikPost: sleeping animals
- Red Wolf Journal: Summer Edition
- QuikPost: Bear pool is clean!
- Bear Pool Cleaning coming up.
- What’s Lightning dreaming about?
- Lightning update: he’s sick
- Big Word of the Month: suprachiasmatic nucleus
- (Me) Sink or (Bear) Swim…
August 2009
- Always changing
- QuikPost: Blog meeting
- Spotlight: Kristen Pormann
- Creature Feature: Chummix the boer goat
- Watersnake Goes Fishing
- Bears & Watermelon
- Big Word of the Month: Acarology
- Story to share
- Spotlight: Volunteer Chris
- Wildlife wins: refuges get to stay refuges
July 2009
- EnrichBits: Training
- I’m back from the Red Wolf meeting
- Twins?
- Creature Feature: Gus the black bear
- Watermelon
- 2009 Red Wolf SSP meeting
- Durham Yard Sale
- Report of an Incident
- What a crazy day (at least for me)
- Our talented bears
June 2009
- Another Bear at the Museum
- A breath of fresh air
- Why You Should Never Go On Vacation
- Smiling Bears: a fun and interesting evening event
- EnrichBits: Keepers’ favorites
- Creature Feature: Red Wolf Surgery Part 3
- Creature Feature: Red Wolf Surgery Part 2
- Creature Feature: Red Wolf Surgery Part 1
- Big word of the month: adapiforms
- Red Wolf pups- lots of pups born to wild wolves
May 2009
- Spotlight: Marilyn Johnson
- Show and Tell
- Red Wolf “Birth” Update
- Madagascar animals
- Volunteer Recognition
- Creature Feature: Banded Water Snake
- My visit to the Atlanta Zoo
- Spotlight: Kristie Mozzachio, DVM
- Big word of the month: Neoteny
- Surprise!
April 2009
- Baby Opossums Here
- Another produce shopping trip
- Swine Flu
- Box Turtle Chowdown
- EnrichBits: Wolves
- Red Wolf Pup Photos
- Friend or foe?
- Creature feature: Lightning the Sicilian donkey
- Farmyard Physicals
- BWOM: Biogeochemical cycle
March 2009
- The hazards of coyote night lighting
- Spotlight: Uli Hartmond
- Trip to the National Zoological Park
- Observation of Girl Scouts (and other animals)
- Nothing but net
- Creature Feature: Yellow-eyed eastern screech owl
- Spotlight: Will Waddell
- Out and about
- BWOM: Accuracy or Precision?
- The Birds
February 2009
- Interesting bear birth(s)
- Buildin’ Stuff
- EnrichBits: Max’s Monday out– part two
- Where’s Mudsy?
- How Now Brown Trout?
- Virginia comes in for dinner
- It’s Alive! Petals to Primates. (I’m off to San Diego)
- A Trip to the Wetlands
- Creature Feature: Wilco the Florida Gulf Coast Sheep
- Ice sculptures in the bear yard
January 2009
- The threat of dog diseases on red wolves
- Aaah, what a perfect spot for an opossum
- Spotlight: Larry Boles
- Devilish thoughts
- EnrichBits: Max’s Monday out
- The scoop on Red Wolf poop
- Snow at the Museum
- Nothing interesting to write about
- Creature Feature: Donald the eastern box turtle
- Update on our red wolf brothers
December 2008
- New species for 2008
- Christmas 2008
- What’s Happening THIS Week!?!? A Weekly Look Into the Busy Life of a Keeper
- Creating a different view, for visitors AND animals
- Amusing story (at least to me)
- EnrichBits: The Office
- Amazing discoveries
- Squirrels hoard acorns, and Kristen hoards our holiday candy…
- Creature Feature: Baby the Spotted Salamander
- A tough day
November 2008
- A rescue of the strangest kind…
- Big delivery!
- If you love something, set it free
- EnrichBits: Keeper Enrichment
- Keeping the animals warm
- Special Event Opportunity
- Make a Wish
- She’s here!
- Creature Feature: Beaker the Opossum
- female wolf coming this week!
October 2008
- A carrier for our new male wolf
- A good day in Explore the Wild
- Ferret exercise
- It’s Time For Hiberna…..zzzzzzzzzz
- State Fair 2008
- EnrichBits: A new toy
- Guest Blogger Jill talks about our Reuse/Recycle Project
- I’m heading to NY
- Creature Feature: Little the Silkie Chicken
- Pool party
September 2008
- It’s sad to see them go
- Apples and Honey
- Our new red wolf male
- Our Wolves are leaving!
- EnrichBits: Wild About Animals!
- Our weekly meeting
- Weighing the Gators
- Lemur TB drugs
- Creature Feature: Lycus the ring-tailed lemur
- The tale of the pig and the duck
August 2008
- Interesting phone calls
- Summer breeze, makes me feel fine . . .
- Spotlight: Volunteer Judi
- Migrating coyotes claim red wolf territories
- EnrichBits: A New Place for Nimbus
- Red Wolf Master Plan meeting follow-Up
- Creature Feature: Squealer the pot-bellied pig
- It’s been busy
- Big Word: Microclimate
- Red Wolf Master Plan update
July 2008
- Lightning plays fetch
- “Watch it grow!”
- mealworms
- Spotlight: Erin Brown
- Bear pictures
- EnrichBits: Choice
- Roadkill
- Time to crawl out of my skin
- Panda photos
- Mistaken identity: coyote or red wolf?
June 2008
- Honeycomb big, yeah yeah yeah!
- Spotlight: Cassidy Walpole
- Species Survival
- Catching some rays
- EnrichBits: It’s hot!
- Red Wolf Master Plan Meeting Prep.
- Munch Cam Fun
- Creature Feature: Ursula the black bear
- Black Bear Cubs: Appalachian Bear Rescue
- Anyone feel hot out here?
May 2008
- Rubber donkey you’re the one…
- Spotlight: Kent Carter
- The importance of red wolf field biologists
- Born Free, Bat Free!
- EnrichBits: Roommates
- opossum surprise
- The many aspects of being a keeper
- Is a bear always a bear?
- Bile farming of the Asiatic Black Bear
- Behind the Scenes with the Bears
April 2008
- They make Bear Chow?
- Spotlight: Volunteer Donald
- It’s Time for Leafy Treats
- See it, smell it!
- Wendy the thief!
- Red Wolf Re-Introduction: The 5-County Area
- Have you seen our YouTube channel?
- White Black Bears
- Drumming and displaying
- Bear in Mind…
March 2008
- A New Outdoor Area For Inside Animals
- Spotlight: Volunteer Annie
- Red Wolf Recovery: The Beginning
- more on Godzilla…
- why they are called BEARDED dragons
- Animal Videos
- Creature Feature: Misha the Red-tailed Hawk
- Red Wolf Award
- Pile of gators
- Red Wolf History
February 2008
- Happy Leap Year!
- Divisions Of Labor
- Difficult Decision: Red Wolf #1389
- Update: Jersey Calf
- The Benefits of Public Programs
- EnrichBits: Paper mache
- Crickets
- Give a snake a break!
- Creature Feature: Ball Python #1
- Tree trimming at bears
January 2008
- Spotlight: Debbie Vanderford, DVM
- Congrats On Your New Condominiums!
- Do you have trouble getting out of bed on cold mornings?
- Science blogging
- EnrichBits: Tactile Enrichment
- Winter Weather?
- The rewards of stonedusting
- Animals in the News
- More on venomous snakes
- Creature Feature: Templeton the Goat
December 2007
- Big Word: King Phillip loves spaghetti!
- Another trip to the grocery store
- Water Conservation
- Do as I say, not as I do
- Red Wolf #1389 update
- EnrichBits: Feeding and Foraging
- Spotlight: Dr. Allen Cannedy
- Creature Feature: Red Wolf #1390
- “Is bleach on sale??”
- Big Word: Anthropomorphism
November 2007
- Early AM Birding
- Spotlight: Dr. Thea Staab
- Holiday Time In The Animal Department
- EnrichBits: Exhibit Design
- Red Wolf Physicals
- Bear Slumber Party
- Red Wolf Physicals today
- Creature Feature: New Jersey Calf
- Partying for Pig
- Big Word: Chronobiology