This week's mammal day was the lion. Each group made a paper mache enrichment for the lions. Everyone watched on Thursday morning as the lions were released and enjoyed tearing up the paper mache. On our lion day, we went up to the lions' night quarters, where the keepers told us all about these powerful felines. We also played a game and made a lion craft.
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On bird day, we went to both hornbill exhibits, where a keeper talked to us about these interesting birds. We also got the opportunity to watch as the keeper fed the hornbills! An education staff member candled eggs with us, and we were able to hold the baby chicks that hatched this week. And we made a cool hornbill craft and played a hornbill game later that day.
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We met an education staff member who introduced us to one of the baby alligators on Reptile Day. Some of us had our photo taken with Lucy the baby gator. We learned all about these amazing reptiles. Later, we fed the big alligators at the 3:00 alligator chit-chat. We also played a game and made a special alligator craft to take home.
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An education staff member taught us how to make enrichments for our primates (monkeys and apes). Then we met the primate keeper, who taught us all about these cool mammals. We saw the gibbons interacting with the enrichments that we made for them. We also made a primate craft to take home.
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For our Nature Day, we met staff member Will, who is a master gardener and has traveled all over the world. He taught us many things about plants and how important they are to our environment. We went on a nature walk in Safari World to learn about the many plants that we discovered there, and we even planted our own sprout to take home to watch it grow. We also made a craft and played a game to remember this day.
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