Author Archives: Meg Holgate

Animal Sports Day

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 […]

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Winchester Science Festival

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 […]

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Update on the Zebras

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 […]

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Zebraversity is almost here!

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 […]

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Science & Engineering day – visit our stall

Come find our stall at the University of Southampton’s Science and Engineering day this Saturday (12th March) to find out more about the exciting new plans for Bioblitz 2016 and some fun activities! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southampton-science-and-engineering-festival-tickets-20516974824 Last year’s Bioblitz was a great success with members of the University and public exploring the biodiversity present on the University […]

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