wednesday the 7th of march the two ty classes went to fota wildlife zoo in cork, we lefr very early at 7.20 and didnt get home untill 9 which was a very titing day but a great and enjoyable day. we arrived at around 10am and went into a classroom for a game the game was a blindfolded came we were in groups of 6, one person had to instruct the rest of the team who are blinfolded how to get into the circle, the person instruting also couldnt talk so had to clap and also bang their foot of the ground,this was a very good game.
we then went into the next room and we were in a line of 6, the two people at the end had a job to do, one end got to see an image for 1minute and then discribe to tht rest of the team like chineese whispers and the person at the other end had to build the image with lego.
we then played another game with trapezums to build shapes.
what i learned;
we saw kangaroos,peacocks and maras which arent enclosed they are around, maras freeze thinking we cant see them!
we then saw the cheetahs and tigers and rhinos, meerkats,snakes,flamingos and penguins.
we then went into the next room and we were in a line of 6, the two people at the end had a job to do, one end got to see an image for 1minute and then discribe to tht rest of the team like chineese whispers and the person at the other end had to build the image with lego.
we then played another game with trapezums to build shapes.
what i learned;
- they dont buy/sell animals they swap
- if giraffes get cold its not good, they get scared easily
- monkeys are grown up around other monkeys because they get attached to humans very easily
- they feed animals more vegtabled than fruit because fruit is too sweat
- they give animals their medication through food like nutella or jam.
- monkeys are very strong
- the wild animals have a starve day the reason for this is because in the wild they wont get fed everyday.
- for the cheetahs to get their run and food every day, they tie meat onto a zip wire they have to chase after it to get the food, if they dont they dont get fed.
- to keep their mind active they do different things with the animals food for example during the snow they put meat in a snowman and the tigers had to get the food from the snow.
- i also learned that ostriches are vicious.
we saw kangaroos,peacocks and maras which arent enclosed they are around, maras freeze thinking we cant see them!
we then saw the cheetahs and tigers and rhinos, meerkats,snakes,flamingos and penguins.