Katie Pearson
assistant director at Wildling Museum of Art & Nature
“I love raccoons. I think they’re really cute looking, but I love how promiscuous and tricky they are. They get into garbage cans, their little hands are so amazing, and they can really pick things apart and do incredible things.”
Stacey Otte-Demangate
executive director at Wildling Museum of Art & Nature
“I’m going to hold up my hand for opossums. I’m rallying for opossums because they are amazing, and I think they’re cute despite their naked tail. They do not carry rabies, they can’t because they are marsupials from Australia, and they eat little nasty things we want them to eat.”
John Iwerks
artist
“The coyote is my favorite. There is a band of coyotes that live near where we do, and they come out at night and howl. Sometimes they are pouncing on ground squirrels out behind our fence and it’s fun to watch. Their wisdom, their smartness, they’ve been around and they’ve been able to adapt to civilization.”
Kay Turbak
volunteer at Wildling Museum of Art & Nature
“I would say the hawks, I love all the raptors. To me, they’re majestic. They’re predators, but just to see them fly gives me a thrill.”
This article appears in Aug 25 – Sep 1, 2016.
