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Bringing out their Wild Side: Animal Enrichment Day
This annual event showcases the zoo’s enrichment program, which provides
stimulating environments for the zoo’s animals in order for them to demonstrate
natural behavior and enhance their well-being.
Watch the animals play
with their enrichment toys and discover the importance of training that occurs
daily at the zoo. Observe as animals forage for food and work through complex
puzzles for an edible reward. Laugh as novel items placed in the animals’
exhibit bring out their natural – and often comical – behaviors.
Schedule
of enrichment activities:
10:00 a.m. - Frozen Fun - Sheep, goats, ponies
and donkeys
10:00 a.m. - Undercover Insects - Himalayan Monal
Pheasants
10:30 a.m. - Papered Prey - Lions11:00 a.m. - Creature Coaching -
Raptors Bird Show Yard
11:10 a.m. - Search! an activity for humans - Bird
Show Yard
11:30 a.m. - Papered Prey - Tigers
12:00 p.m. - Feeding Frenzy -
Penguins
12:30 p.m. - Jiminy Crickets or The Nose Knows- Ocelots
1:00 p.m.
- Frozen Fun - Spectacled bears
1:00 p.m. - Creature Coaching/Weight Watchers
- Elephants
1:30 p.m. - Creature Coaching - Parrots Bird Show Yard
1:30
p.m. - Creature Coaching - Raptors Bird Show Yard
2:00 p.m. - Sheet hammock -
Siamangs
2:30 p.m. - Hangin’ Around - Egyptian fruit bats
3:00 p.m. -
Creature Coaching - Lemurs
3:00 p.m. - The Nose Knows - Turkey
vultures
3:00 p.m. - Watermelon Stampede - Elephants
Touch tables and
enrichment stations will be located throughout the zoo.
Date(s):
09/13/2008
Location:
Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park
1 Conservation Place
Syracuse, NY 13204
Time:
10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Cost:
Free with zoo admission
Telephone:
315-435-8511
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