Northwest Trek Wildlife Park Visit (Eatonville, WA) 4/14/2012
Weather: Cloudy mid 50s. Few showers.
Habitat: NW Trek Wildlife Refuge
On April 14th my family and I took a trip to the northwest trek wildlife park where we went on their bus tour through their refuge and also walked around various animal stations. The first section of the tour involved caribou, bison, moose, elk, trampetor swans, and common white-tailed deer. Some of the interesting things I learned from this section was that elk have canine teeth, and also that moose can swim well and even dive down 18 feet into the water.
After the tour we walked around the refuge and found four interesting animals that were being shown. The golden eagle, gray wolves, river otters and grizzly bears. An interesting thing I learned about the golden eagle was they are born white and develop a brown color as they age as well as having "golden feathers" on the back of their heads. An interesting thing I learned about the grey wolves were that they travel packs of up to 30, and that there is also a male and female alpha in the pack.
Grizzly bears were a controversial issue in this area with there being "about 1000 grizzlies in the western US" as noted by the grizzly bear station. Though they are in captivity, insuring the lives and the future of grizzlies, I think conservation through refuges are justifiable.
An interesting note I took on river otters were that they use their stiff whiskers and dexterous paws to locate prey.
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