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Halloween En"witch"ment October 28th
Learn about what enrichment means, help make enrichment activities, and watch farm staff take your activity and give or feed it to our musk oxen! This is a Halloween themed event! Costumes are encouraged and masks are required.
Fiber Foundations: Interlooping
In this workshop, students will use their hands to draw in space by manipulating strands such as thread, yarn, twine.
Fiber Foundations: Spinning
In this workshop, students will make their own spindle and learn and practice the dynamics of spinning.
Introduction to Cyanotype: Fabric & Texture
This workshop will introduce students to the alternative photographic process known as cyanotype with its roots in art and science.
Introduction to Cyanotype: Nature Prints
This workshop will introduce students to the alternative photographic process known as cyanotype with its roots in art and science.
Ask the Oxperts: Consequences of Headbutting!
Join us for a talk with Dr. Nicole Ackermans (she/her), a Postdoctoral fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, to learn about her research on traumatic brain injury in muskoxen and how it is investigated in the lab!
Ask the Oxperts: Consequences of Headbutting!
Join us for a talk with Dr. Nicole Ackermans (she/her), a Postdoctoral fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, to learn about her research on traumatic brain injury in muskoxen and how it is investigated in the lab!
Ask the Oxperts: Musk Ox Prehistory!
Join us for a presentation about the prehistory of musk oxen with Dr. Pam Groves, PhD of the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks!
📸Dr. Groves holding the skull of a musk ox that dates back over 30,000 years found in northern Alaska!
Mother's Day with Musk Oxen
Celebrate mom with the Musk Ox Farm for Mother's Day! Join us virtually to see the NEW BABIES! New calves were born in April, and these cute fluffy balls of joy are sure to put a smile on mom's face for her special day. Any amount donated will get you a Zoom invite for a special tour!
Ask the Oxperts: Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium
Learn about the Musk Ox program at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium with Shannon Smith, Assistant Curator of the Zoological & Environmental Education Department! On the waitlist for this presentation? Please join us on Facebook for a live streaming of the Zoom event.
Enrichment Fridays August 23rd
Learn about what enrichment means, help make enrichment activities, and watch farm staff take your activity and give or feed it to our musk oxen!
Enrichment Fridays August 9th
Learn about what enrichment means, help make enrichment activities, and watch farm staff take your activity and give or feed it to our musk oxen!