This week I went to camp at The Toronto Zoo and I had so much fun! I learned so much about so many of the animals. These are 10 cool facts that I learned:
- Apes walk on fists and do not have tails, monkeys walk on their hands and have tails.
- Elephants trunks can pick up a blade of grass and can also move a car.
- Moose can dive up to 18 feet in the water.
- Camels don’t spit on you, they actually vomit.
- Chameleons don’t change colours because they want to. They change colours because of what mood they are in. If they are bright green they are happy and if they are red they are angry.
- One of the Kangaroos that they have at The Toronto Zoo gets mad if you’re loud. There’s even a sign that says “be quiet!”
- Male peacocks are the ones who are colourful, the female peacocks are the ones who are grey.
- Cheetahs can run 120km an hour, that is faster than the average speed limit on the highway.
- Sharks skin looks smooth but it’s actually rough. Stingrays are smooth. I know this because I touched them.
- Flamingos turn pink when they eat shrimp. If you feed it a blueberry it won’t turn blue.
Now I have a story that I want to share with you. It’s sad but true.
One day a family was at the zoo and they threw a piece of popcorn for the baby orangatang and the dad orangutan wanted the popcorn and by accident he knocked baby. The baby fell into a moat and because orangutans can’t swim, the baby drowned. A firefighter came to try to rescue him, but it was too late. This is why you should not feed the animals at the zoo. When the signs say, “Do not feed the animals,” please listen. These rules are rules for a reason. They protect the animals.
Here are some of my favourite photos that I took during my week at Zoo Camp.
From the top left going clockwise: Flamingoes, Tiger “Vitali”, Grizzly Bears, Organgutangs, Monkey, Jellyfish, Female Peacock with her chicks, White Lion, Elephant. Center photo is a mom and baby Orangutang cuddling – so cute!
I also learned about some of the things that they are doing for the environment at The Toronto Zoo. There is a lot of information at the zoo about things that you can do to help the environment and the animals. At many of the exhibits there are signs that tell you if the animals are endangered or if their homes are in trouble because of littering and pollution.
It sounds like you had fun at the zoo camp. That story about the orangutan was sad.
It sounds like you learned a lot! We took our kids to the Toronto Zoo when we visited the city a couple summers ago and we loved it 🙂 I had no idea that Moose could dive that deep.
Incredible! Thank you for sharing all of those facts Hannah. We took my daughter to the zoo for her second birthday. Haven’t been since, but hoping to visit again in October. 😉
I was so surprised to see another post about camp! You are quite the camping pro now! Your Mom and Dad have got to be super proud of all of the things you have done this summer!! I love the pics from the zoo…you did an awesome job!! xoxo
Thank you Nakia! I liked zoo camp so much that I wanted to write a post about it. I think that they are! How’s Tori! I hope she’s good! She’s really good! She has a really good mom! xoxoxo
It sounds like you had a lot of fun at zoo camp!Thank you for posting the picture of the phone ape recycling program; it is something I am passionate about since I work with the gorillas.Please encourage everyone you know to recycle their unwanted cell phones at the zoo. All the money we raise through this program will help us to help gorillas in the wild.