I enjoyed the virtual Chester Zoo visit did you?

If you didn’t manage to, you can still see the videos on the link or on the Zoos page.

Here are some of the photos I took  and some interesting facts I learned……… enjoy!!

The🐼 Red pandas are my favourites, the babies are called cubs. There are less than 10,000 in the wild now, so they are classed as endangered.  They mostly eat bamboo, but the female will eat small bits of meat ( 🐁  🐦)when they are pregnant.

 

The park has Asian Elephants 🐘 it’s only the male that gets tusks but  in African elephants it’s both the male & females.

Baby elephants don’t have proper use of their trunk until they are about 2 year old.

 

 

Sun bears☀️ 🍯 🐻 (also called honey bears) They have massive claws for climbing trees and very long tongues to find honey and insects. 🐛 🦗

They are endangered due to poachers. They are hunted for medicine and also deforestation for palm oil is damaging and clearing their natural habitats.

 

Butterfly house🦋 🐛

We saw the eggs, caterpillars,chrysalis and the butterflies.

Butterflies tastes with their feet, then eat with their long curly tongues.

They also showed us a very big, bright green female stick insects.

 

Giraffe 🦒

Every giraffe has a different coat pattern just like our finger prints.

Their poop is just the size of a Malteser.

They eat 35kg of leaves a day/ the same weight of an average11/12yr old.

Tigers🐅

They are endangered due to hurting and palm oil deforestation.

Their stripes make them easily camouflaged in grasses.

 

 

Penguins 🐧 We just saw them being fed and swimming. There was no educational talk with this section, but you can find out about them on line or go visit Edinburgh Zoo Live Cameras to learn and see more.