One Bald Eagle arrived as an immature raptor in 2010. It fell from the nest and imprinted on humans. The Great Horned Owl arrived in 1992 at less than one year old. The Raptor Exhibit features three buildings that house live New Hampshire species of raptors including Bald Eagle, Red-shouldered Hawk, Broad-winged Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Great Horned Owl, and American Kestrel. Raptors are a group of birds that use adaptations such as grasping talons and a hooked beak to capture, kill, and tear their prey. Because mountain lion cubs stay with and rely on their mother for up to eighteen months, they could not be released back to the wild and Washington officials found suitable placements around the country for these and other orphaned cubs. The two male mountain lions arrived at the Science Center in January 2023 from the state of Washington after being orphaned and surrendered to Washington Fish and Wildlife. An example of the interrelationships between animals and humans would be when early settlers, afraid for their safety and that of their livestock, over-hunted and eliminated mountain lions in New England. Large carnivores are rarely seen in New England since they need a lot of uninhabited space. This exhibit emphasizes the adaptations these animals have to hunt - how high and far they can jump or how much they can lift - and also addresses the ecological concept of extirpation. They are able to survive a wide range of conditions and have the skills to hunt many different types of prey. The mountain lion has one of the widest distributions of any mammal in the western hemisphere.
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