Ijams Creature Features featured in online article

Ijams educator Sammi Stoklosa with eastern screech-owl

 Stop by the Visitor Center any weekend for a free animal presentation: Saturdays at 10 a.m., 2 and 3 p.m. and Sundays at 1 and 2 p.m. 


Ijams Creature Features have become very popular. Sometimes it's a red-tailed hawk or vulture, sometimes a snake or turtle and sometimes it's an adorable opossum, you never know, it may even been a tarantula.  All have interesting stories. 

UT reporter Shelby Kast with
Pantherophis alleghaniensis

Last Sunday, reporter Shelby Kast with the Tennessee Journalist—the official news website of the University of Tennessee's School of Journalism and Electronic Media—stopped by to investigate. She got to meet an albino black rat snake. Here is her report: TN Journalist.

- Stephen Lyn Bales 

Ijams veterinarian, Dr. Louise Conrad, with our resident turkey vulture