Week 8 Day 5

"I'm going to be sad about leaving camp, I've had so many great experiences with animals, learning new things every day. I'll be back next year."

"Today we saw a baby oragutan named hesty she was so cute. She kept climbing on the ropes but if she got to far away from mom she was taken off the jungle gym."

"Zoo camp has been awesome! we've learned so much about conservation and how we can help animals."

"Today was the last day but it was a lot of fun. We got to do a race around the zoo and we had to find clue cards and do actions. I had a blast this week and made new friends"

"This was the best camp ever. I had so much fun on the carousel and in Toyota elephant passage. The zoomazing race was lots of fun as well."

Week 8 - Day 4 - Vietnam

"Today we made mini gasifires to try and represent the real ones. we used a big juice can as the cowling a soup can as the reactor and a tuna can as the ash tray. our team had the longest living fire with almost 26 minutess. we had 17 holes in the reactor and 6 in the other cans. but we all had ups and downs."

"Today was totally wicked we focused on Vietnam and went to Toyota Elephant Passage. It's really nice. We also made mini gasifires it was awesome!"

"We made our own gasifires. the zoo has its own gasifier that will produce 20% of the zoo's energy needs. Being able to see what it does was really cool.

Week 8 - Day 3 - Mongolia

"Today we learned about Mongolia. I touched a hedgehog."

"Today we learned sloths eat a specific seed that they love. Every week they come to the ground to use the bathroom. The seeds are in their waste which they bury. This fertalizes the seeds and plants those trees."

"Today we learned about Mongolia, we mainly learned about eagles and how they survive in the wild. It was really cool!"

Week 8 - Day 2 Botswana

"Today in animal handling we learned about a Sand Boa and how they are endangered and need saving."

"Today was totally awesome, we learned about Botswana and we got to see someone train a lion. It was amazing!"

"Gummy Bears! Today we ate 5 different colors of gummy bears. Three were normal and there were two red ones. One was covered in salt and one in sugar. They represented how farmers put chemicals in meat so the lions will not eat their livestock."

Week 8 Day 1 - North America

"Today we learned about Global Warming and how to prevent it by planting trees, carpooling and biking/walking. It can help save polar bears and their habitats!"

"Today we actually got to test on a bear (cardboard). We took it's blood, measurements and poop! It was really fun!"

Carnivore Day

Today we learned about carnivore conservation in Botswana one of the Denver Zoo's focal areas. We learned many interesting ways the people in Botswana use to portect themselves and their livestock so that the don't have to kill animals like lions and painted dogs. We also got to see up close how the zoo trains their hyenas at the predator ridge demo.

When it rains it pours

Today we braved the stormy weather a viewed the zoo's many North American species and learned about the conservation work being done with these animals. We also learned the many ways to observe and collect data on animal and actually got to practice what real researchers do. We had lot of fun outside today and most importantly made a few new friends.