On Monday we went to Orana Park. We had two classrooms going so we spilt up into two groups, room 5 and room 6. We had a great teacher her name was Bethany,first she led us to the zoo school, the zoo school was a place where we put our bags. Bethany told us that the 2 classes would go two different ways. I thought that was a really good idea because people would not be able to see the animals if we went as a big group.
The first thing we saw were the lions. We got really close to them because they came close to the fence. Bethany said that was unusal because they don't usally come this close. There were 2 girls and 2 boys they were all family. Bethany told us really cool facts, the lion boys didn't have manes she told us it was because they had surgey that made them not have manes. They can't have manes because they live with their female family and girl lions thinks the manes a manly and they like them and they shouldn't mate because they are family.
We saw alot of animals. We saw Tigers, Bethany told us about them aswell she told us about how their are only a few in new zealand, orana park only has two tigers. They are two young boys. When they are older one will go to a different zoo across the country and the other one will stay here, when the tiger is older and is here they will try to find a girl tiger so they can have cubs so we can have more tigers in the zoo.
Bethany took us around the zoo and she showed us the Gorillas, Giaffe, Rhinoceros, Reptiles, Kiwis, Springbok. There were so many more though. I really liked the spring box because Bethany told us a awesome fact about them, Bethany told us that male springboks have a flap of skin on their back, when they want to impress a female springbok the comes out and hair is on the flap of skin and they females think it is manly. My Favourite animal was the tasmanian devil, I liked the tasmanian devil because there were four of them, I learnt that when another tasmanian devil come up to them they start sneezing and that would usally get them away from where they are butif that doesn't work they will start screaming and they will get into a big fight, they could be screaming and biting eachother. Bethany said that they will bite eachothers butt.
Here is a google drawing of some of the animals
Kia ora Ella.
ReplyDeleteWow, what a fantastic blog post about our trip. You have remembered lots of information about different animals and their adaptations. One adaptation you mentioned was the springboocks having that flap of skin. She also mentioned that it stinks. I guess the females like that!! My favourite animal was the Tasmanian Devil too!
Keep up the fantastic blogging.
Ms Wilton