Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Zoo Camp 2014

Winter Zoo Camp. I will have photos next week. Monday: They visited the "gazelle barn", then learned about lizards and tarantulas. That's all I could get out of Jasmine for Monday. Tuesday: Worked with elephants. Each child got to give an elephant either an apple or cracker directly from their hand:) - thru a fence of course. That activity apparently created the most excitement. Then they "gave the elephant a bath" by spraying her with a hose:) Then they visited with the new 4 month old orangutan baby! I'm sure they did other things too- but that's what I could get. Wednesday; Visit and study the Andean Bear, tortoises, millipedes, lots of crafts. Thursday: Farm day. Milked a cow, played with goats and chickens. Friday:- African day. Fed the giraffe from the "giraffe tower", put a dead chicken in the tree inside the tigers area. Apparently the dead chicken fell out of the tree before the tiger could climb up there to get it :)