It is a trend among museums to not only encourage understanding or appreciation of exhibit content but also encourage behavioral change among visitors after their exhibit experience. Exhibits focusing on wildlife and habitat conservation, nutrition and health, advocacy, and family learning/literacy all hinge on making a change in the visitors’ behavior after they leave the museum. Yet there is surprisingly …
The Size of a Stick of Butter…
…that’s how big a giant panda cub is at birth. This is one of the many fascinating things I learned in my 2 + years working with conservation biologists, veterinarians, keepers and educators at Smithsonian’s National Zoo. Mei Xiang has been in the news lately and the Zoo has been Tweeting about her twins (sadly, one died 4 days after birth). This …