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 \u00a0a European Hare (5m+) and hold their breath as long as a bottle nose dolphin (500 seconds +). Though no one quite managed to beat our animal record holders, we had some great competitors! It really shows how amazing animals are and how specially adapted they are.<\/p>\n
We had a massive 507 people come and admire our zebra today.<\/p>\n
A big well done to our winners;<\/p>\n
Precious who managed to jump 2.70 meters, Lily from around 3pm who managed to hold her breathe for a wopping 51 seconds and on the running front we had too many people who all tied on 5 seconds to be able to decide fairly (sorry you were all too fast!)<\/p>\n
Join us next Monday for pen pot butterflies! (Bring a loo role tube if you want, as we’ll be using these).<\/p>\n
Conservation Cadets, our summer club for 7-11 yr olds, will be starting up next Tuesday. Please get in touch if you would like to get involved with this.<\/p>\n
If you’ve won a prize or are interested in cadets please leave a comment below and we’ll be in touch!<\/p>\n
A huge thank you to The Flying Aubergine Cafe for storing our gazebo and to Aeron Kemp and Aisha Sati for their help during the day.<\/p>\n
Bioblitz love!<\/p>\n
Meg and Olly<\/p>\n
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