Zoo Trip

LI: to learn about the animals in the Auckland Zoo
We first went to an area in the zoo where they show animals from Africa. We first saw Zebras, Giraffes, and Ostriches. It was really amazing to see how well the Giraffes, Zebras, and Ostriches stayed calm while being together. We focused more on Giraffes, and learnt some facts like the reason Giraffes have blue tongues are to keep it from sunburning.

We then kept exploring the African region and saw some Meerkats. We learnt that they communicate with each other when a predator comes. So one would be a lookout and if it sees a predator it will make a squeak and it will tell the others to come back in the burrow. After we saw some lions and learnt facts like that their night visions is 8x better than a humans. Next we saw rhinos, specifically "White Rhinos". We got to touch a rhinos horn and learnt that their horns are made out of the same material as a humans.

Next we saw Flamingos and found out that their knees are at the waist, and their ankles are where the knees normally are. We later saw Asian Elephants, specifically Burmese Elephants from the Sri Lanka Region.

After we went exploring around the zoo. We went through the whole of the Africa Region, the Australia Region where we got to see Wallabys, turtles, and more.  We went to parts of the South America region looking at monkeys and more.