Monthly Archives: July 2016

We’ve had a great time this week with Animal Sports Day at our Zebra. We had challenges to see who could run as fast as a White Tailed Eagle (20m in 1 second), jump further than  a European Hare (5m+) and hold their breath as long as a bottle nose dolphin (500 seconds +). Though […]

We had an amazing time at Winchester Science Festival yesterday making our craft garden and web drawings! The competition was tough but in the end it was decided that the winners were; 5 and under; Minibeasts- Thomas Howell (5) Flowers – Beau (2) 10 and under; Minibeasts- Addie (9) Flowers- Oliver (7) A huge well […]

It’s been an exciting week for us at the BioBlitz team! Thursday we took part in a ‘Talk to Us!’ event which aims at connecting schools with the science departments at the University of Southampton. It was interesting to see what has been going on and to engage with the people who have taken part […]

On Tuesday 12th July we took a trip down to Southampton City Centre to check out Marwell’s Zany Zebra Parade, the official launch event letting the 150 zebra sculpture loose on the public! Led by the once missing Gilbert, the zebras ‘trotted’ in formation around the city (with some help from a few trucks). The […]

The summer has got off to a great start for us at the BioBlitz team as we have already been busy getting involved with the local community. On Wednesday 8th June we run our annual campus BioBlitz, aiming to find and identify as many different species present on the University of Southampton’s Highfield campus. To […]