While summer camp is happening at the zoo, it’s happening all over the city of Houston, too! And we are visiting some of those summer camps with our ZooMobile.
Today at one of those camps I had a second-grade student ask if I had brought Toby the Red Panda with me. Of course, if Toby had gone with me to Sugar Land, then none of our zoo visitors would have been able to see him.
While Toby may have stayed at the zoo, three of our handling animals did travel with me. These are part of a special collection of animals that live behind-the-scenes in our Children’s Zoo. Most of these handling animals are relatively small (we do have to carry them in their travel containers, after all), but we do have a few oversized animals like our Flemish giant rabbits. Exactly how big does a rabbit have to be to be considered a “giant”? Trixie, our female Flemish giant, weighs about 18 pounds. Now that is a big rabbit!
Trixie our Giant Flemish rabbit
For today’s ZooMobile, I took a chinchilla, a fat-tailed gecko, and a baby alligator. Maybe they aren’t as cute as Toby (he is the cutest animal in the world, you know), but the kids seemed to like them just the same. It’s not every day you get to touch an alligator!
Leigh
Thanks for sharing.Keep posting.