Katy spent a bunch of time at the wolf exhibit the past few weeks and she had her camera!!! Check this out:
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Henry & Galileo’s Super Bowl Prediction- 2013
February 2nd, 2013The San Francisco 49ers go head to head with the Baltimore Ravens, so who is our woodchuck and opossum rooting for?
A few years ago Henry was right
Last year we had a snafu with the video and Henry chose incorrectly, but Galileo was right.
Watch the video below to see who Henry and Galileo chose
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I have to agree with Henry even though he dislikes me…go 49er’s!
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I didn’t really care who won since the Steelers weren’t playing but this was fun to watch. Thanks to Henry, Galileo and the Animal Keepers!
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Maybe Henry has a future in Vegas? My money is with Henry.
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Opossums Rule!!! Woodchucks Drool !!!
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QuikPost: Box for Yona Bear
January 18th, 2013I was going through old blogs and found one I hadn’t posted yet which was a video of Yona playing with a box.
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I have some boxes I need to flatten and recycle here at the house. I think she could be a big help!!
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Signs of the Season
November 2nd, 2012Ranger Greg may have noticed the first signs of the impending season change back in August, but here in the Animal Department, we hold off until the middle of October to make our changes from the summer heat to the winter cold. We also have our animals to let us know when it’s time to shut off the fans and turn on the heaters. Scout, the duck, molts all of his old summer feathers to prepare for what would be a fall migration and he starts running around the farmyard in the morning like he’s training for a race. Henry, the woodchuck, and our 4 bears, all pack on a few pounds with the start of fall and then slow way down, spending most of their days sleeping. The bears, wolves, steer, donkey and many others begin to grow in an extra thick coat of fur to ward off the impending cold.
One of my favorite signs of the season comes from our Red-tailed Hawk, Misha. Our normally quiet, calm hawk becomes very chatty in the early hours of the autumn mornings.
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I love that you got footage of Misha doing this! I’ve heard him but never seen him.
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Time For a Tune-Up
September 20th, 2012Now that we’re 1 month away from the grand re-opening of the Farmyard, it’s time to trade-in your well practiced sheep “baa” and try out your newly acquired alpaca “hum.” Here’s Retro, short for “Retroversion,” one of our new alpaca moms– and by far the most vocal– giving you a lesson in alpaca communication.
So get practicing and in 30 days you will be ready to welcome the humming quartet into their new Farmyard home.
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Retro is sweet! Would love to meet her and her cohorts!!
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Adorable!
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Watermelons for the farm yard bunch
July 29th, 2012Here is a video of the animals in the farm yard enjoying some watermelon. Its rare that everyone can agree on one food and watermelon seems to be it.
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Fun music! Lightning has such great table manners!
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QuikPost: Ah, that refreshing watermelon
July 27th, 2012Only 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 to these shenanigans. She doesn’t always steal the animals’ watermelon!;)
Make sure to visit the museum next Friday, August 3rd so that you can see our animals in action as they gobble down some juicy and delightful watermelons at many of the keeper programs that will be held that day.
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Awesome video! Makes me want some yummy watermelon. Good job Marilyn!
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MJ- just sprinkle a little mealworm dust over that watermelon to keep the keepers from stealing it.
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hahahahah that was fantastic!
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More eggs
July 7th, 2012Recently, a friend of the Animal Department donated some eggs to feed our animals. The animals that we usually feed eggs to are the bears,wolves,opossums and recently we gave one to the muskrats. In my opinion the opossums love them the most.They are real eager to eat them. Here is a little video I made of Galileo and Sonny Opossum devouring the gifted eggs.
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Forget the porridge, give me cotton candy!
July 1st, 2012Every Thursday the animal department staff (along with any volunteers or museum staff that can tolerate the keepers) go to lunch together somewhere off campus. Occasionally we splurge and go to Golden Corral. A few weeks ago some of the keepers noticed there was blue cotton candy in the dessert section. We decided to take all the cotton candy they had (of course, we waited until we were on our way out to snag it all) so that we could see if our bears would like it!
Now, we wouldn’t just give our bears cotton candy for no good reason. There is, in fact, a method to our cotton candy madness. You see, often times when we give our animals medicine we have to disguise it in something yummy that they like to eat (you can read more about this in Jill’s post here.)
Mimi, currently our oldest bear, is especially hard to please when it comes to taking medicine. It seems no matter how much we try to disguise her meds with the yummiest of treats, she always knows when we’re up to no good and she refuses to take them. Sherry thought that maybe cotton candy could be added to the list of things that our bears would love and would be willing to take their meds with.
This is not a treat that they would receive very often, but considering it’s just a little bit of sugar and a lot of air, it seems like a decent treat to try. So we grabbed the cotton candy and ran some taste tests with all the bears to see if they would like it. Watch the video and decide for yourself!
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Do the bears get their teeth brushed like the ferrets?
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there is so much about this post that i like, marilyn. everything from walking out of golden corral with all of the blue cotton candy…to watching the bears (oh i miss those bears) nosh on the goods…to the end credits. great post! thank you.
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Awesome video! Great job Katy.
This is Great!