Animal Keepers | The Animals & Keepers Blog

There is Science happening right HERE right NOW!
This Web page has a virtual pipe plugged into the new MLS Animals & Keepers Blog! When the Museum Bloggers add a new Blog Post, we get an instant update. It's the Science of the Internet bringing you the daily life of the Museum's animals — written by the great team of specialists that cares for them. To see more of these posts, visit the blog here!

 

This is the MLS 2.0!
With photos, videos, and their own observations, the MLS Animal Department gives you a glimpse into their world of caring for animals — lots of them.

And you're all invited to share with us. Please, send us your photos, videos, and observations of the life and science happening all around you. Ask us questions. This is a conversation about Science. Jump in ...

• Tuesday, May 13, 2008

  Behind the Scenes with the Bears

  To kick off Bear Awareness Week, I took some Museum members with me down to the bear exhibit. Five special families joined me before the Museum opened Sunday to prepare bear diets and then serve up breakfast to the bears on the rainy morning.
  
  We first went to the animal department kitchen to prepare the meal. They had to find all the foods, choose between different types of vegetables or frozen fruits, and measure out the appropriate amounts. Then we traveled on foot in the rain down to the bear exhibit.
  
  You can see the kids with their feed buckets spreading the food out. They put food in the water, stuffed it in the traffic cones, hid some under tires: anywhere they could hide it, they did. Breakfast consisted off nuts; dried, frozen, and fresh fruits; and vegetables.
  
  Then, after we locked up safely, we let the bears into the house so they could eat. Gus has his head in the water trough and I believe that is Mimi with her paw in an orange traffic cone trying to dig out some food.
  
  I had fun, even though it was raining, and all my special guests were great troupers in the soggy weather. To see the schedule of activities for the rest of Bear Awareness Week, click here.
  Posted by Sherry at 7:25 AM
• Sunday, May 11, 2008

  Bear Awareness Week begins today!

  
  

  Today starts Bear Awareness Week! The museum will be celebrating with lots of events- click on link for a full schedule.

  Stay tuned to the blog this week to read about all things bears!
  

  Gus (pictured), Virginia, Mimi, and Ursula, our four American Black Bears, are up and active -- come visit them and learn more about bears.
  Posted by kristen at 6:30 AM

The articles above are recent blog posts from the MLS Animals & Keepers Blog, click the link to see all the previous posts going back to October 2007.

 

We're using a Content Syndication Technology called Atom to deliver their Blog into our page. We can plug you in too. Visit the Museum Blog, and use the SUBSCRIBE link at the bottom of the page.