![]() Wild Cat Station completes the final project in Phase II of the museum’s Third Century Plan. In the near future, museum guests will have the ability to observe training sessions with the mountain lions. EcoTarium keepers have multiple access points and a training staging area. The habitat was designed with all four seasons in mind and includes a conditioned space to house the cats inside at night and during inclement weather events. ![]() It is comprised of grass, trees, logs and rocky alcoves and outcroppings that allow the cats to utilize their natural abilities of climbing, scratching and jumping in the exhibit. at 18,500 square feet and meets all accreditation standards and USDA requirements to house large carnivores. The habitat is one of the largest mountain lion exhibits in the U.S. “Freyja” is the female name after a close race. ![]() Female mountain lion-naming rights were first extended to EcoTarium members, the public was given the opportunity to vote on their narrowed-down list. “Salton” was chosen it is a combination of the two last names of the winning bidders. The EcoTarium worked with the zoo through Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife for safe transport of the cats.Īn exciting part of the new exhibit is how the mountain lion kittens were named: the male name was auctioned off at EcoTarium’s signature fundraiser A Night at the Museum held on April 27, 2019. The brother and sister kittens were found emaciated and orphaned in Half Moon Bay, California and brought to Oakland Zoo for vet care. Utilizing and transforming the former polar bear habitat, the sibling cats are home in their re-created mountainous terrain while visible from multiple viewing angles by our visitors. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing.One of the Largest Mountain Lion Exhibits in New EnglandĪt the heart of Wild Cat Station, presented by The Hanover Insurance Group Foundation, is a dramatic and intimate experience of a set of mountain lions in their natural New England habitat. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing and CHOR, Inc., as well as The AAP-PSP Executive Council. David acquired and managed a suite of research society-owned journals with OUP, and before that was the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, where he created and edited new science books and journals, along with serving as a journal Editor-in-Chief. He oversaw journal policy across OUP’s journals program, drove technological innovation, and served as an information officer. Previously, David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. So consider this your evolutionary factoid for the Crotty is a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. Interestingly enough, cats have bigger canines than canines. It also has impacted the size and shape of their teeth and claws. Size is not an asset for endurance hunting, so this has balanced out the optimal size for wild dogs to be smaller than cats. ![]() Wild dogs tend to live in more open areas with less cover, so their optimal strategy is endurance hunting, working in packs to exhaust their prey before attacking it. Big cats (with a few exceptions) generally take a “solitary ambush predation” approach, sneaking up on their prey and pouncing. The answer lies in the optimal hunting techniques and the environments in which they’ve evolved. Although large dog species can be found in the fossil record, the Northwestern Wolf is the biggest extant wild dog species, but their size doesn’t come close to that of the bigger cats. Our newest addition is going to be big, much bigger than any non-human I’ve lived with, and the video below helps raise a question I’d never considered: we have big cats (lions, tigers, etc.) in the wild, but why don’t we have any equivalent big dogs? We breed large dogs like Great Danes, but these are all variants of the same species as Toy Poodles, and are driven through human breeding efforts. As someone who has recently welcomed a new dog to the family (see my Twitter account for occasional photos), canines are on my mind.
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