Organization: MOSH (Museum of Science & History)
Feeding Our Friends
Goal: Help offset the cost of MOSH's Naturalist Center that provides care to some of Florida's cuddliest creatures.
Total Project Value: $1,950
Project End Date: 12/31/2010 (119 days remaining)
Status: Amount Given: $180 | Goal Amount: $1,950
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After discovering this site, I keep wanting to give and give and give!
Wildlife Education Materials
Healthy greens for MOSH's Critters
Outdoor Owl Enclosure Construction
New habitat for Nigel, MOSH's beloved Opossum
offset cost of feeding Tonca, MOSH's Alligator Snapping Turtle
Project Description
Through the "Feeding Our Friends" program donors will be offsetting the cost of meals and habitat components for MOSH's "cuddly" creatures. The Florida Naturalist Center of MOSH is home to a variety of reptiles, amphibians, fish, birds and mammals, all native to Florida. Many animals in MOSH's care also require specialized needs. They have come to MOSH with prior injuries that need evaluation and care.
MOSH's project dollar amount is based off the cost to feed, and maintain, a healthy habitat for its over 100+ animals, during a three month period. Contributions will benefit all MOSH's scaley, feathered, and furry friends, as well as contributing to MOSH's wildlife education programs.
Please help MOSH continue it's 68 years history of serving the Northeast Florida community.
"Feeding Our Friends" Facts:
-Tonca, MOSH's 125 pound Alligator Snapping Turtle, eats around 420 pounds of food per year.
-MOSH's Bearded Dragon, eats about 1,600 crickets a year.
-MOSH's Gopher Tortoies eats almost 200 pounds of salad each year.
-Box Turtles can live for more than 100 years and have a varied diet including greens, fruit, worms, insects, and fish.
-Bull Gills will actually jump while swimming to catch insects on the water's surface.
(Learn this and MUCH, MUCH more through MOSH's educational programing.)
MOSH- "Where Wonders Never Cease."