Enrichment Day

Well the high for today was 45 and that was first thing this morning. It only got colder as the day progressed. We did have a decent number of visitors show up for Enrichment Day. I was busy all day and missed most of the animals, but I did get a few pictures. The Sloth bear was given a paper mache ant hill with insects inside, Spider monkeys had several hanging puzzle feeders, and the Maned wolves had a paper mache ant hill with mice inside. Animals in the other sections were also enriched, but I didn't have any time to go see them.
We did a lot of enrichment in the reptile house. The Skink got a piece of wood sprayed with perfume, the insectavores were fed a variety of insects and mealworms. The Chameleon was handfed wax worms. The Yellow monitors had phonebooks with insects hidden inside. New substrate and habitat furnishings for the Grey banded kingsnakes.

It was cold and cloudy and we were shorthanded, but it ended up being a great day!

Sally checking out her paper mache.

Yellow Monitors tearing into a phone book.

Grey banded testing her new leaves.

Skink on top of his new piece of wood...

...and in it.