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.

Mongolia

We learned about traking animals with radio neck collars and backpacks we played a fun game that thought us how they are used on vultures in mongolia. At lunch we saw pictures from camera traps we set up around the zoo. We saw many cool birds and mongolian animals while touring the zoo and later we got to touch a hedgehog.

Botswana

Today we learned about predator conservation in botswana. Bodie the wonder dog visited our classroom to teach us about a cool guard dog program being used. We made our own scents to mark our territory like an african painted dog would. On tour we saw cool predators and even a baby leopard. Also a guest speaker came and talked about what it is like to live in Kenya and the zebra consevation being done there.