Live Collections
at the Cable Natural History Museum
The Museum is home to live raptors, reptiles, and amphibians. They are education ambassadors connecting YOU to the wild animals that live in Wisconsin’s North Woods.
MEET OUR WILD STAFF:
Haley serves as the primary trainer and educator for the Museum's raptor flock. Her favorite part of the job is building relationships with the birds and seeing improvement in their behavior on a daily basis. She also loves connecting audiences to Northwoods nature, especially when she can share the stage with a live raptor.
Haley Appleman
Naturalist
Aldo hatched in 2014 in North Carolina. He fell out of his nest as a chick and broke both wings. The bones healed at the Carolina Raptor Center but he became imprinted on people and never learned how to be a wild Kestrel. This learning process is irreversible so he joined CNHM in 2014. Aldo loves eating mice and trilling when anyone walks by the mew.
Aldo
American Kestrel
Carson hatched in 2013 and was probably hit by a car in Illinois. Her left humerus was broken and never healed completely. She moved to CNHM in 2014 to become education bird. Carson's favorite meal is a good rat, and she loves taking baths in the spring.
Carson
Red-Tailed Hawk
Otto hatched in 2016 in Ohio. Two years later he was found with an improperly healed fracture on his right wing. Since he cannot fly well enough to survive on his own, he found a home at CNHM in 2020. He enjoys training sessions where he can earn tasty treats of any kind of food - he's not picky!
Otto
Great Horned Owl
Great Plains Rat Snakes are agile climbers and may climb trees or shrubs in search of a meal. Emory often finds herself resting on the high shelf in her habitat.
Emory
Great Plains Rat Snake
Hognose snakes use an upturned nose like a shovel. In the wild, they dig underground to find buried toads, their favorite food. Digger enjoys hiding under the wood chips in her habitat.
Digger
Western Hognose Snake
Tiger salamanders are one of the largest salamander species in North America. Like wild salamanders, Scuba has a voracious appetite for worms, crickets, and anything else that might fit in his mouth.
Scuba