Stepping Through ZAM: Day Two, Children’s Zoo Module
It’s 8:30am Saturday morning. I’m a half-hour early and sitting here on a bench taking in the incredible quiet of our Oakland Zoo on this beautiful morning. There’s a “don’t bother me I’m eating”...
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Day Ten found twenty-some very nervous ZAMs in search of an exit…because today is Presentation Day and none of us wants to go first. But it wasn’t so bad. We each gave our 3-minute presentation of...
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Tonight we continue with invertebrates—those spineless creatures without which no horror movie would be complete—and I am already expecting chills instead of thrills. Maybe to know them is to love...
View ArticleStepping Through ZAM: Day 3, Savannah Module
You think you know Lions? Well, so did I until tonight. This is the first class of the Savannah Module for those of us who have already taken either the Children’s Zoo or Rainforest Module, or...
View ArticleStepping Through ZAM: Day 4 Savannah Module
Sarah Cramer, our teacher, is back with us after an intensive week of training up in Yosemite, so this is the first time the returning and new ZAMs were all together with her and introductions were...
View ArticleStepping Through ZAM: Day Five, Savannah Module
Ruminating on ruminants…that was a large part of tonight’s lecture, and this was timely because our baby Giraffe, Maggie, will be introduced to the world tomorrow. Tonight we get the inside story....
View ArticleStepping Through ZAM: Day 7, Savannah Module
Inside that skull is the largest brain of all mammals. It weighs about eleven pounds but is only about one-third developed at birth, so it has enormous learning potential, like humans do. Most animals...
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