One of the sidekicks that emerged alongside the star attractions—sloths Porsche and Ferrari—at Saturday's Sloth Mania fundraiser for the Calgary Zoo was a pot belly pig named Steve. Steve was let out of his pen for a while to chill out with visitors. View more pics from the fundraiser here.
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A farmer in Douro township is puzzled why an elk has decided to make his farm his homebase. People have tweeted us spottings over the past couple weeks, and the elk (see screengrabs below from this CHEX Newswatch story) is getting famous—people have been sneaking onto the property to try and spot it according to Newswatch, and stopping their cars along the busy Highway 28 to sneak a peek.
Elk watchers
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Meet Party King. She makes great faces and has a terrific personality, but wasn't always the life of the party. As Party King's owner Kristen Mommertz tells us, "We adopted Party King a little over a year ago from a friend who wasn't doing very well and was moving out of province. He had named her Party King and the name stuck—we call her PK or Peas for short. She used to be afraid of everything—including her own shadow—but through many months of patience and love, she is now the perfect lap cat with a huge personality. I'm so thankful that she's a part of our home; she has a lot of love to give and I think she's pretty darn happy." We agree. Take a look at these pics of PK...
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The Riverview Park and Zoo has announced the death of their older male camel, Tash, at the age of 19. Tash came to the zoo in 2004 from the Toronto Zoo. Tasha was popular with visitors and the staff because of his social, gentle and compliant nature.
Photo of Tash via Riverview and Zoo Facebook page
[UPDATED October 4th: The sloths have moved to their new location in the
Squirrel Monkey exhibit at the Primate Building. They will be available
for public viewing there starting on Saturday, October 5th, 2013 at 10:00 A.M. As the zoo says, "Please
keep in mind, they really do like to sleep most of the day!"
[UPDATED September 26th: Jim Moloney, Manager and Curator for Riverview, tell us "Unfortunately we have had another situation to deal with that has put us behind schedule with the sloths. At this time I'm guessing we're going to be about a week later."
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[UPDATED: Jim Moloney, Manager and Curator for the Riverview Zoo, tells us, "If we don't run into problems we may be able to have them on exhibit for the weekend of September 28th."]
Porsche and Ferrari, the two sloths that came to the Riverview Zoo from the flood-damaged Calgary Zoo earlier this summer, are settling nicely into their new digs. The sloths arrived at the zoo August 15th and have been in quarantine ever since to adapt to their new surroundings—if all goes well (they have passed all their medical tests so far), they should be on exhibit in the next week or so. The zoo has been tweeting photos and updates in recent weeks (see below) of the sloths as they get used to their new environment. We can't wait to meet them.
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