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Fun and GamesPrint out these games, and use them for fun activities at your zoo event SCAVENGER HUNT Start near the entrance of the zoo: 1. I am the largest species of cat in the world. __________________________ Continue up the hill to the Cascades Exhibit: 2. See if you can find the beavers and the otters. Be sure to look in their dens! What do beavers eat?___________________________ 3. Do otters compete for the same food? __________ What do they eat? ___________________ 4. I can live in the Columbia River for up to 80 years and grow to be 20 feet long. _________________ 5. Find the Pacific giant salamander. What do they eat? _______________________________________ Stop off at the Elk Meadow on the way to the Bears: 6. The Indians call the elk _____________________, The Shawnee word that means "white rump". At the Bears: 7. Find the bear paw that comes out of the ceiling in the polar bear exhibit. What is the bear trying to catch? _________________________________ 8. Is the Sun Bear endangered? ________ What is its favorite food? _____________________________ Cross the walk to the Penguinarium: 9. What species of penguins are here? ___________________________________________________ 10. Where is their natural habitat? ________________________________________________________ 11. What do penguins eat? ____________________________ On to the Primate House: 12. Why do chimpanzees groom and scratch each other? ______________________________________ 13. What color is the Orangutans fur? 14. Find the "five color" monkey. What is its name? __________________________________________ What colors can you see on them? ________________,_________________,__________________,____________________,_______________ Visit the Arctic Tundra: 15. What is the special name for the wool of the Musk Ox? _______________________________________ 16. My what big ears the wolf has. How far away can he hear sounds? ______________________________ 17. Watch the wolves' tails to learn about how they are feeling. What is the wolf going to do if the tail is straight out? _______________________ How does it feel if the tail is down and tucked under the body? __________________________________ Stroll through the African Savanna: 18. Black rhinos are endangered because poachers want their ______________________________________ 19. Hippos eyes and noses are near the top of their head so they can ________________________________ 20. What subspecies of giraffes do we have at this zoo?__________________________________________ Visit the Africa Rainforest: 21. The crocodile hides in the water to watch for food. What parts of the crocodile can you see above the water? ____________________________________________ 22. Where does the lungfish go when the rivers dry up? __________________________________________ 23. What do the bats in our zoo eat? __________________________________________________________ Stop by the Tree Kangaroo Junction: 24. What do the tree kangaroos eat?__________________________________________________________ --------------------------------------- SCAVENGER HUNT 1. I live in the rocky mountains and woodlands of Asia and China. I am endangered in my natural habitat because of logging and hunting for my fur. There are more of my species in zoos that in the wild. Who am I? 2. Otters and beavers both live in the Pacific Northwest streams. Do they compete for the same food? ___ Otters eat _________________________ Beavers eat __________________________ 3. What water temperature do the rainbow trout need? ________________________ 4. The Indians call the elk ___________________, a Shawnee word that means "white rump". 5. Where is the native habitat of Humboldt penguins? ____________________________________________ 6. What bird is flying in the Penguinarium? ____________________________________________________ 7. What two parts of the polar bear are black? __________________________________________________ 8. I love to play in the trees and scratch for insects in logs. I have an endless desire for honey and insects. My native habitat is Malaysia. Who am I? _____________________________________________________ 9. What monkey is the "five colored" monkey? ____________________ Why does it have a "pot belly"? ______________________________________ 10. New World Monkeys have a _________________ that can grab hold of branches. Name one of the New World Monkeys that we have here at the zoo? ______________________________________________ 11. Why are most of the primates in our zoo endangered species? __________________________________ 12. How do you tell an Asian elephant from and African elephant? ________________________________ What species of elephant do we have in this zoo? ___________________________ 13. How many sets of teeth will an elephant have in its lifetime? ___________________________________ 14. What tundra animal nests on the ground, hunts by day and eats mostly lemmings? __________________ 15. How do grizzly bears mark their territory? _________________________________________________ 16. I am an endangered animal. There are very few of my species left in the wild due to poaching for my horns and destruction of my habitat. I am herbivorous. Who am I? ________________________________ Why do poachers want my horns? _____________________________ 17. How does the hippo protect itself from sunburn? _____________________________________________ 18. What species of zebra lives at our zoo? ___________________________ Where is their natural habitat? ____________________________________________ 19. Naked mole rats form a society like the insect ___________________________________ 20. What subspecies of giraffe is at this zoo? ______________________________________ 21. These hunters move through the rain forest as a team and communicate by whistling while hunting _________________________________________________ 22. How does the slender-snouted crocodile use its tail to catch fish? ________________________________ 23. Two species of monkeys live together in an exhibit in the Rain Forest. They are __________________ and ________________________ If you know that one is arboreal (tree dwelling), what is the behavior you can observe in the other that allows them to coexist in the same exhibit? _________________________ 24. How is a koala's front paw the same as your hand? __________________________________________ How is it different? ___________________________________________ --------------------------------------- Scavenger Hunt Key Ages 11 and under: 1. Tiger 2. Green bark, roots, water plants, herbs and algae 3. No. Fish, crawdads, frogs, small mammals, insects 4. Sturgeon 5. Small insects and mammals (like mice) 6. Wapiti 7. A seal 8. No. Honey 9. Humboldt 10. South America (Peru coast) 11. Herring and smelt 12. Cleaning and bonding 13. Orange 14. Douc Langer. Black, white, orange-yellow, brown, chestnut (rust or orange) 15. Qivuit 16. 6 miles 17. It will attack. Afraid 18. Horns 19. Stay under the water 20. Reticulated 21. Eyes and nose 22. It burrows into the mud until the rains come back 23.Fruit 24. Eucalyptus --------------------------------------- Scavenger Hunt Key Ages 12 and Older: 1. Siberian Tiger 2. No. Small mammals, insects, fish, crawdads, frogs. Green bark, roots, water plants, herbs, algae. 3. 40 - 65 degrees F 4. Wapiti 5. South America (Peru Coast) 6. Inca tern 7. Nose and skin 8. Sun Bear 9. Douc Langer. It eats a large quantity of leaves 10. Prehensile tail.Golden Lion Tamarin or Red Handed Tamarin 11. Habitat destruction 12. Size and ears of trunks. Asian 13. Six 14. Snowy owl 15. Scratch a tree with its claws as high as it can reach 16. Black Rhino. To make daggers and for medicinal purposes. 17. Secretes a lacquer that acts as a sunscreen 18. Hartmann's Mountain. Southwest Africa 19. Honeybee 20. Reticulated 21. Mongoose 22. Creates a "dam" between its body and the shore. 23. The Colobus and the Allen's swamp monkey. The Colobus is arboreal and the Allen's swamp monkey lives on the ground. 24. It has five digits. It has two opposable thumbs. |