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Zoonosis Prevention: A Kahoot Quiz Game

May 17, 2021

Thank you to all who participated in the first all-virtual Junior Breeder Symposium on Saturday, March 27, 2021. If you missed the event, or want to try the Zoonosis Prevention game again, it is live now!  The Kahoot quiz game can be played individually by clicking here. You may also go to kahoot.it and use Game PIN: 01733729. It is available through the above link until … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alpaca/Llama, Animal Health, Club Programming Idea, Dairy Cattle, Dog, Featured Resource, Focus on STEM, Goat, Herpetology, Horse and Pony, Poultry, Rabbit/Cavy/Small Animal, Sheep, Swine Tagged With: animal health, care, featured resource, health, Kahoot game, youth STEM, zoonosis education

Reproduction – Amphibian Style

April 12, 2021

Spring is the time you start hearing the calls of toads and frogs.  You might have even heard the Spring Peepers calling as early as March!  Why do they make these sounds?  What is their purpose?  To find a mate!  Amphibians have a variety of interesting ways of reproducing and preparing for their young. Although there are often exceptions in biology, we can start with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Current Issue, Focus on STEM, Herpetology

Learning how to do research in the field: A Pilot Study in Guyana for Coral Snake Mimicry

January 18, 2021

Or how research really goes in the field! Everyone talks about research being done in the field.  It can sound glamorous, especially when the results are exactly what you hope for or even expect. But the reality is just the opposite.  More often than not, it is what you don’t find or what doesn’t work that helps you learn and adjust your experiment. Anthony Sena, a first … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career Profile, Focus on STEM, Herpetology

Hometown Hero: The Blue-spotted Salamander

January 4, 2021

If towns are shutting down entire roads for you, you must be important, right? Every spring in central New Jersey, temporary road closures are created to protect amphibians who migrate across roads in search of perfect mating grounds. In March and April as the temperatures warm to 40-45 degrees, amphibians including frogs and salamanders make the trek from their winter homes in … [Read more...]

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Ideas to Make Virtual Club Meetings Fun and Educational

November 13, 2020

In this year of the coronavirus pandemic all 4-H staff and volunteers have had to pivot from in-person programs to virtual programs, AND so did the school system. Our 4-H members have had a double whammy of virtual programs and spend a lot of time on their computers. So, how do you continue to keep your members engaged in this environment? They might really want in-person 4-H … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alpaca/Llama, Club Programming Idea, Dairy Cattle, Dog, Featured Resource, Goat, Herpetology, Herpetology, Horse and Pony, Poultry, Rabbit/Cavy/Small Animal, Sheep, Swine

Club Support: Three Online Courses on Food Safety and Microbiology

November 13, 2020

If you are looking for ways to supplement your 4-H club or other youth program in the area of Animal Science, Animal U by the Iowa State University has a wealth of interactive and educational resources. The web trainings here are educational yet highly accessible to youth audiences. Production livestock projects may benefit from asking youth to complete the Food Safety and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alpaca/Llama, Animal Health, Animal Project Areas, Career Profile, Club Programming Idea, Dairy Cattle, Dog, Featured Resource, Goat, Herpetology, Herpetology, Horse and Pony, Poultry, Rabbit/Cavy/Small Animal, Sheep, Swine

So You Want to Work in a Zoo?

November 6, 2020

This past July, 4-H Program Associates Amelia Valente and Brittany Rigg held a S.T.E.P (Short Term Exploratory Program) called Career Detectives. The mission of this program was to expose youth to zoo careers they might be interested in pursuing. Participants virtually connected with several professionals in the field, including Zoo Keepers, Behavioral Specialists, Water … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alpaca/Llama, Career Profile, Dairy Cattle, Dog, Goat, Herpetology, Horse and Pony, Poultry, Rabbit/Cavy/Small Animal, Sheep, Swine Tagged With: careers, Habitat Specialist, Herpetologist, Ichthyologist, Nutritionist, Zoo, Zoo Curator, Zoo Keeping

What can snakes on Madagascar teach us about evolution?

November 2, 2020

Arianna Kuhn, PhD Candidate, City University of New York, American Museum of Natural History As a  PhD candidate at the City University of New York, my current work aims to understand the evolutionary events that cause new species to form, but my career in herpetology actually began with geckos from Africa! As an undergraduate at Villanova University, I knew that I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career Profile, Focus on STEM, Herpetology

4-H Entries for Statewide Virtual Fair!

July 28, 2020

Calling all those in 4-H animal projects - there are multiple classes for each of you at the New Jersey 4-H Virtual Fair, but you only have a few more days to enter! All information (and a link for entries) is available at the 4-H fair's website.  The many categories for project entries are outlined in the exhibitor’s guide, also available at the same site. While we hope … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alpaca/Llama, Club Programming Idea, Dairy Cattle, Dog, Goat, Herpetology, Horse and Pony, Poultry, Rabbit/Cavy/Small Animal, Sheep, STEM Learning, Swine

The Search for Urban Snakes in NJ

July 17, 2020

Written by Tianqi Huang, a PhD student majoring in Ecology and Evolution at Rutgers University - New Brunswick , currently working on urban snake ecology. Tianqi is co-advised by Dr. Peter Morin and Dr. Sara Ruane.         Nowadays, a large proportion of world’s population lives in urban areas, but we know that cities are not only home to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Animal Project Areas, Career Profile, Current Issue, Herpetology, Herpetology, herpetology, STEM Learning

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