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The Meerkat House exhibit at the Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park & Zoo. (City of Saskatoon)
It’s important to keep our house pets cool and safe during this heat wave, but what about the zoo animals living without air conditioning?
Jeff Mitchell, a worker at the Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park Zoo, joined Gerald Bauman on Tuesday morning to explain how the zoo keeps animals cool in the summer.
“Obviously we have sprinklers, just like you would for your kid. A lot of our animals just love to sit in the sprinklers,” Mitchell said.
“Of course, we have our pools and our ponds, but one of our favourite things to do is to make fish-sicles.”
In order to attract butterflies, you not only need to attract and feed adult butterflies on nectar rich plants and flowers. You also need to offer them an inviting place to rest, hibernate, lay their eggs and provide food for their larvae and caterpillars to eat. Butterflies are near sighted and are more attracted to stands of a particular color. Adult butterflies searching for nectar are particularly attracted to red, orange, yellow, purple and pink blossoms, flat-topped flowers and short flower tubes. An area of plants that flower at the same time will be more appealing to butterflies than a lone plant with few flowers.
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More than 90,000 people drove through the BHP Enchanted Forest at Saskatoon’s Forestry Farm and Zoo over a seven-week period this holiday season, setting a new attendance record for the event, which has been a Christmas staple in the city for 22 years.
This year’s Enchanted Forest themed “Christmas Staycation” saw 91,995 visitors, far surpassing the previous high attendance record of 80,520, from 2018-19.
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While the “Light Walk” that typically kicks off the Enchanted Forest’s run was cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions, little else about the event had to change for it to go ahead in spite of the pandemic. Vehicles were able to drive through the 2.5-kilometre loop and observe the 300 light displays nightly from Nov. 20, 2020 to Jan. 9. New this year was a light displ