Lions, Lions, Lions!

Sunday was an exciting day. A commercial shoot was scheduled several hours north in an area that closely resembled the Serengeti plains of Africa. And just what animals do you think were stars for this African setting? LIONS, of course!! Here are two of the actors for the shoot: Leo & Lily, two special 12 week old Barbary Lions flown in from our partners out east. They were quite a handfull at this age, rough & tumble non-stop for hours. This was obviously the best part of my day!

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Did you know…

..that to ensure all of our animals well being we do compound rounds 3 times a day, minimum! Here’s our seasonal employee Natalie doing midday rounds by the foxes make sure everybody is doing okay.

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Just Another Day…

After the holidays, the animals appear to have as much energy left as us humans. I went to visit some of them and they had the right idea of how to spend the day.

Baloo

Flick

Arlo

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Gifts for Primates

Animals like to receive gifts, too!  Our little Mozart, a cotton-topped tamarin, enjoyed his specially-wrapped box of meal worms given by volunteer Micha this holiday season.  It turns out that raisen boxes are perfect for gift-wrapping presents for tiny primates!

You, too, can provide a gift to our primates during this season of giving!  Donations big and small go a long way in helping animals like Mozart live healthy, happy lives.  Happy Holidays!

Mozart investigates his "gift".

Ohhh!! Goodies inside!

Gifts are GREAT!

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Merry Christmas to you and yours..

from all of us at Wild Wonders!

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Archimedes is in School!

Archimedes, out Great Horned Owl rescue is is Wild Wonders trainging school learning to be comfortable with sitting on a glove & in social situations with lots of activity.  Below is a brief training session as our staff trainer Wendy helps Archimedes “get a grip” with his new & improved life here at Wild Wonders/Zoofari.

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An Opossum Adventure

Today, we took Sleepy, one of our Opossums, for a walk around the facility. Along the way he found all kinds of interesting smells that he had to check out. The one thing he made sure to do during his walk is scent mark everything. First he decided to go for a bamboo tree and then he was onto more excited objects like the outside lights. He worked his way around the compound and he had quite a great time along the way.

Here are a few cute videos of his adventure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8REc14W4l1g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnh3zOz8CUY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MmZPA-xsmk

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Conan’s Tonight Show a Hit w/Tiki Bird

Wild Wonders animals made a holiday appearance with Discovery’s Nigel Marven on Conan O’Brian’s Tonight Show Friday.  Unfortunately our amazing kinkajou acrobats were cut from the show, but our “Bird Whisperer”  Tamara and her amazing mini-Toucan Tiki made the show a success! Check out the link below.

http://www.tonightshowwithconanobrien.com/video/episodes/#vid=1187015

Discovery's Nigel Marven & Tiki Toucan cuddling

Tamara & King Vulture

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Sitka’s Snow Day

Today Sitka the Arctic Fox got a treasure box full of snow and ice. We hid some fun treats inside and watched him happily dig!

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Adopt Your Critter for the Holidays

Christmas & Holiday time is the perfect time of year to show how much you care.  All of the animals at Wild Wonders are hoping that you will find it in your heart to adopt them by donating to their food, housing, & care for the year.  With your adoption donation of $100 or more you will receive a personal 8×10 photo of your special animal as well as a signed adoption certificate denoting special facts about them.  Please visit our Animal Ambassador page to see all of the wonderful & deserving animals just waiting for you to show how much you care!

Gray Fox Meadow

Siberian Lynx Tiani

Victor Cheetah

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