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Wild Times at Bayou Sauvage

Wild Times spent a gorgeous morning at Bayou Sauvage taking advantage of spring migration. Lots of birds to see: herons and egrets, forsters terns, stilts, moorhens, whistling ducks, glossy ibis, kingbirds, Wood peewees, vultures, grackles, anhinga and cormorants… incredible!! This will be the last birding trip for awhile as I’ll be having ACL surgery tomorrow. …

Wild Times Receives Disney Inspire Grant

Wild Times spent a wonderful day at the Arts Market w Josie and Joelle Leali. We got to show off our newly acquired incubator to be used for Wildlife rehabilitation thanks to Josie’s successful grant w Disney’s Be Inspired grant! And we raised $110 for more supplies to go towards our rehab work!! Thank you …

Tooth Lab at McGehee

Wild Times is excited to work again with Science Teacher Extraordinaire, Lee White from McGehee!! We’re doing another 4th Grade Tooth Lab! I’ve got lots of cool skulls in my car to examine: lion, polar bear, loggerhead sea turtle, nutria, black bear, red wolf, zebra, anteater, chimpanzee and an elephant molar.

Wild Times on Safari in the Maasai Mara

Week spent in the Maasai Mara w Cousin Tony and Aunt Mary – great sightings: loads of lions – even witnessed a lion love triangle; found an elusive cheetah and later, a leopard perched on top of a hammerkop nest. Learned about fig wasps, lion behavior, experienced harrowing bush driving after an impressive African storm, …

Wild Time on Safari in Lewa & Samburu

Highlights from the past week in Lewa and Samburu: leopard and lion sightings, horseback riding w giraffes and waterbuck and zebra, watching gerenuks feed, seeing both Burchells and Grevvys zebra, close encounters w elephants, bush picnics, flying lessons w Alan, sundowners, bird watching galore – seen at least 100 different species of birds!! Visit to …

Wild Times Visits Elephant Sanctuary

Magical place where traumatized and sick baby elephants find a new life of immense love and care – thanks to the incredible work of Dame Daphne Sheldrick who spent 10 years trying to develop a proper elephant milk formula. Prior to this formula – most orphaned baby elephants died of dehydration. Loved watching my children …

Busy Times at the World’s Largest Polar Bear Prison

Wild Times Education visited Churchill in 2011 with the goal of viewing polar bears in the wild. Due to global warming, the plight of the polar bear has become increasingly dire, as indicated in a recent article in the Atlantic, Busy Times at the World’s Largest Polar Bear Prison.

Note: The article includes a broken link to a study, which can be found here: Possible Impacts of Climatic Warming on Polar Bears.