I apologize that it's been a while since I've last posted, but I've been pretty busy lately and I've been too tired/lazy to type up a new post until now. But even now, I'm kind of swamped with taking care of a baby lamb, a duckling, and a baby robin, who all need feeding and love and attention. Therefore, I'm just kind of giving you the highlight of my week: going to a museum and eating a reindeer (I'm such a party animal).
So I've been working at the Yukon Wildlife Preserve for a little more than a week and a lot has happened here. I've been learning so much about the native animals of the Yukon Territory AND I've built up some arm muscles from shoveling so much hay ;) But it hasn't all been work. The animal care assistant here is named Cassy and she's been a great person to get to know. The other night we went into town and went to the Beringia Museum followed by dinner at Klondike Rib & Salmon. It was a ton of fun and the food was DELICIOUS! The Beringia Museum is dedicated to teaching people about the lost continent of Beringia (otherwise known as the Bering Land Bridge) and about the animals and people that crossed over to North America from Asia back during the last Ice Age. It was kind of a smaller museum, but it was still really interesting and cool and I definitely recommend it if you're ever in Whitehorse. After the museum, Cassy and I went to Klondike Rib & Salmon for dinner. In the end, I ate waaaayyyy too much food. I ordered the reindeer stew and it tasted "magical" (see what I did there?).
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| Jefferson's Ground Sloth |
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| Tooth of a Jefferson's Ground Sloth - awfully big tooth for a vegetarian |
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| Scimitar Cat |
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| Steppe Bison |
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| Wooly Mammoth Tusk! |
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| Short-faced Brown Bear - they were bigger than a large polar bear! |
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| Saiga Antelope - still found in Asia, but very endangered :( |
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| Mural depicting different everyday activities of the ancient people that crossed over Beringia |
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| Giant Beaver! |
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| Baby Mammoth! |
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| Mmmm reindeer stew :) |
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| Baby Robin |
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| Duckling! |
Oh and one more thing to mention. There's a Northern Flicker currently trying to break into the apartment I'm living in. He's cute, but he could at least buy me dinner before trying to move in :P
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| So rude! |
