Family Events

Annual Earth Day Celebration

Earth Day 2010

Sunday April 18, 2010
12 noon-5pm

What better place to celebrate Earth Day than Coyote Point Museum! For our third annual Earth Day celebration, we’re offering animal showings, hands-on science activities, and a special focus on sustainable practices that you can implement at home.

This Earth Day, we’re focusing on sustainability and urban farming. By knowing where your food comes from and how it’s grown, you can make earth-friendly food choices. We’ll even help you take the next step - practicing urban farming at your home!

You can become an urban farmer by starting a small windowsill garden, creating habitats for
native animals, growing worms in a compost bin, or even raising chickens. Join us on Earth Day and be inspired to try new ways of keeping our Earth healthy for generations to come.

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Meet the New Otters

 

Meet the newest members of Coyote Point Museum’s animal family, our two new baby North American river otters. Come see them frolic in their pond and get used to their new digs.

The two otters came to the Museum in November 2009 and after completing the Association of Zoos and Aquarium’s mandated 30-day quarantine period, they begin the process of acclimating to their new digs in the Museum's public river otter exhibit. The female otter was captive born and came to the Museum from Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield, MO after they decided they needed a different mix of otter personalities for their exhibit. The male otter was born in the wild in Washington, but was abandoned by his mother as an infant. He was found and briefly raised in a family’s home before being sent to Raptor House Rehabilitation Center in Washington. The rehab center determined that he was too imprinted by humans and could not be released back into the wild.

Photo by Justin Miel