Rolling Hills Zoo Visits Learn and Grow Depot

Rolling Hills Zoo Visits Learn and Grow Depot

Shown: Matthew Griekspoor, Education Outreach Coordinator at Rolling Hills Zoo, introduces the children of Learn and Grow Depot to a red-footed tortoise during the zoo’s visit to the child care center.

Rolling Hills Zoo came to Learn and Grow Depot in Abilene recently, bringing some live animals, stories, and education. Matthew Griekspoor, Education Outreach Coordinator at the zoo, began the program by reading the story “Lazy Lion” to the children. Later in the program, he also read the story “Giraffes Can’t Dance”.

During the program, the children saw and touched a lion skull, a lion pelt, a snow leopard pelt, a live red-footed tortoise, an alligator skull, a live ferret, an ostrich egg and ostrich foot, a giraffe pelt, and a live three-banded armadillo.

Some of the children helped with a demonstration that showed the “wing-span” and hand size of an orangutan compared to a human. Two cut-out wooden hands attached to a chain were stretched out approximately seven feet to simulate the “wing-span” of the orangutan. Children were able to compare their hand-size to the size of an orangutan. There were a lot of smiles and laughs during the interactive program.

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