I 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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Packages for the Bears.
January 4th, 2013I thought the bears would be thrilled to have the 15 pounds or so of nuts that my neighbor left on my doorstep last week. However, in addition to the almonds and hazelnuts that Donna left on my doorstep, the bears received their own mail at the Museum. 50 pounds of walnuts arrived at the Museum addressed to the four of them!
2 large boxes arrived, addressed to the four bears
The bears have Kelly Taylor, our Rentals Manager to thank. Kelly absolutely LOVES the bears and asked her family to get presents for the bears for Christmas.
The bears cannot read English so we’ll tell them what the note says
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Hey Sherry! That is a cool Christmas story for sure!! Thanks for sharing. (and the education) I did not know bears liked nuts. Go figure!
Happy 2013!
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I love when we get mail for our animals.
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Super sweet gift for the bears!
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This week in ETW
October 13th, 2012Recently I added a hammock to the Ring Tailed Lemur indoor stalls. I have seen both Cassandra and Satyrus snuggled up together in it but when I reached for my camera they jumped up. I got lucky the other day and snapped a pic of Lycus lounging in it.
I was working for Keeper Jill this past Saturday (who was attending the AAZK conference) and wanted do some fun enrichment for the Bears and for me to watch. So I used a bunch of empty boxes and filled them with their p.m. food and some extra treats. It wasn’t very eventful but it was interesting to see how each of them accessed their boxes differently. Gus just shoved his head right in! Mimi carefully pulled back the tabs on the boxes. Virginia pushed all the tabs into the box and Yona had her box on it’s side.
Front to back: Gus, Mimi, Yona
Virginia
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It’s HOT out there.
July 15th, 2012We all know it’s been a hot summer. We talk about it every morning before we start our day. Animals, just like people can succumb to heat related issues. However, we never want it to get that far with the Museum’s animals. We prepare every year for the temperatures to rise and how to best take care of ourselves and our animals.
Mimi, in the water as she often is in the summer, with her fancy nut-ice block
We make sure that there is plenty of shade and water for our bears, wolves, and lemurs in our Explore the Wild exhibits. Any catching up of the animals is done early in the morning before temperatures rise, usually before 7 a.m. Summer enrichment includes lots of frozen fruit, fruity or nutty ice cubes, mousicles (any guesses what a mousicle is?), or even ice blocks the size of buckets or large garbage cans.
You would think that being native to Madagascar makes it a breeze for our lemurs during the summer. However, it gets much hotter in North Carolina than it would in the treetops of the Malagasy jungle, so we have air conditioning for the indoor areas- keeping the temperatures around 85 degrees Fahrenheit.
shade for the lemurs from their shelter
Keepers watch the Farmyard animals closely too. Some of the exhibit areas have big shady trees, for others we add umbrellas that the animals can stand under. Shade cloth is added to the top of our hawk and owl cages. Fans go up in every window. We check water levels at least three times each day, adding “water balloon ice cubes” to keep the water cool. Rabbits, the ones most susceptible to heat issues, get frozen water bottles to lean up against.
Lightning, Rocky and Patches hang in the shade.
So be safe and try to stay cool.
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The Bears- June 26.
June 27th, 2012What a lovely day yesterday was- cool and only 80 degrees- so we were worked in the bear yard: scooping poop, weed-eating around fences, spreading food, etc. From a service road near the Butterfly House, I pruned a bunch of Russian Olive plants that had ripe berries and put them in the bear yard, along with the bear food and “fruity-ice blocks” for the bears. I happened to have a camera with me and took a bunch of photos to share. You can zoom in on each photo by clicking on it.
Yona is not shedding out so elegantly, but she’s still cute. It looks like the keepers put nuts and fruit in her ice block.
Mimi picking through the Russian Olive for the ripe berries
Look closely above and you can see Yona is on top of the ice block. A couple seconds before this photo, Mimi climbed higher to get to a different branch of berries. Then, the bottom of the Russian Olive branch lifted off the ground and whacked Yona on the side. Yona jumped up, on top of the ice block. The scene made me chuckle.
Yona joins Mimi eating the berries
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Bear Hugs
April 8th, 2012
One Sunday morning while checking on all the Explore the Wild animals I couldn’t tell if there was one or two bears sleeping in the bear cave. So I used our visitor camera at overlook and zoomed in to check it out. Then I saw the cutest thing- Mimi was spooning Gus! Super cute and it brought a great big smile to my face first thing in the morning.
Here are a couple photos of bears having fun.
Gus and Yona playing, Gus is standing
Gus playing with his feet- classic
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Mimi is so sweet to Gus! Very very cute!!!
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love the pictures Thank you for posting
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QuikPost: bear station quiz
March 21st, 2012Katy was training the bears last week and got them all to their station. YAY KATY for having your camera to document the feat. Each bear has a specific station (stump) that they are supposed to go to. Katy’s been working hard to get the bears to their specific station, and to have all four bears at their specific station at the same time is awesome!
all four bears at their station at the same time!
Can you name the bears, from left to right? (Sorry Katy, you know the answers so let others chime in first).
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That’s a hard one. You’re asking us to ID them by their rumps. I’m going to say Mimi, Virginia, Gus and Yona.
Well done Katy!
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Great Job Katy!! Awesome picture as well. I know Virginia’s stump so I won’t guess yet.
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I think I’m going with Ginny, Mimi, Gus, and Yona.
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Virginia, Mimi, Gus and Yona?
And that really is awesome, Katy! Its great that you managed to get the picture, but its also funny how it really is either a butt or side shot for everyone. -
Nicely done, Katy!
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Thank you everyone. I’m so proud of the bears! Especially Gus!!! This behavior has been confusing for him.
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This is a great picture!! Wonderfully took!! I like it!
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Wow good job!
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Quik Pic: bearbathing
May 17th, 2011Ashlyn, one of our volunteers, caught this shot of Mimi, Yona, and Virginia hanging out in the pool. (Click here to watch a video of Ursula swimming). It’s Bear Awareness Week, through Saturday, come by and visit.
Yona left of Mimi in the moat, with Virginia hanging above in her favorite spot.
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That is such a cute pic of the three bears bathing.
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Stumped
January 10th, 2011
Yona about to jump up on the stump
The City of Durham donated 6 huge tree stumps to the Museum. We had 4 put into the bear yard, 1 in with Max and Chummix, and 1 in with Lightning and the little goats. While the bears were locked in the house we took the time to scoop the yard and add more hay to their sleeping spots. Here are a couple pictures of the bears checking out the stumps. This is really great enrichment for the animals. Smelling, climbing, and playing all ensued as soon as the bears entered the yard. Yona even fulfilled Sherry’s wishes of jumping from stump to stump and she even got a mid air pic!
Yona
Mid-Jump!
Yona and Virginia checking things out
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Yona on ice
December 31st, 2010With 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’t get direct sunlight.
Well, the ice in the moat finally became thick enough that the bears could walk on it. Yesterday, Kimberly and I watched Yona and Gus venture out on the ice to come greet us while we were breaking up the ice with long poles from the bear viewing area. Although Yona and Gus did some playing on the ice that we didn’t capture on video, I still got some footage of Yona investigating her newly frozen ice rink. You might notice the large sheets of ice that are frozen into the new ice that had formed overnight. Those sheets of ice are from Sherry breaking up the moat the day before, and then the water re-freezing with the broken sheets inside of it!
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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!!