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Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
450 Flatbush Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11225
USA
Discovery Center at the Prospect Park Zoo
Discovery Center
Calling all aspiring veterinarians, scientists, and young naturalists! At the Prospect Park Zoo’s new interactive Discovery Center, we’re looking for volunteer vets to examine our animal puppets, and field detectives to help trace clues about wildlife. Open from 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. every weekend, the Discovery Center is made up of various learning stations where children can hone their science skills with the same tools that the experts use. Visitors can peer through a microscope lens, try on a pair of butterfly wings, and explore the zoo’s living laboratory. Featured stations include Zoo Vet Center, Amazing Arthropods, Young Naturalist, and Camping Exploration.
The Discovery Center is also open by reservation to groups during the week. All visits for pre-registered groups include a live animal encounter and a 30-minute exploration of the center. Spaces are limited, so register in advance. Call 718-399-7327 or email ppzeducation@wcs.org for more information or to make a reservation.
For more weekend entertainment at the zoo, don’t miss our live animal encounters, held in the theater at 12:00, 12:30, 2:30, and 3:00 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Rotating animal guests who enjoy the spotlight include a ball python, chinchilla, blue-tongued skink, rooster, rabbit, tarantula, ferret, mud turtle, or tomato frog.
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Prospect Park Zoo Education Programs
Exciting educational adventures await you and your family. Meet some of our incredible animals! To make a reservation, please call 718-399-7321.
Barnyard Bonanza
Experience the farm without leaving the city! Children will feed Aggie the cow and her barnyard companions, learn about farm life while making butter, and put hand to feather when they meet a chicken in the Zoo classroom.
Ages: 3-6 years
Date: Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Time: 11 – 12pm
Fee: $15/ child and adult (members) $20/ child and adult (non members)
Talkin’ Turkey
Gobble, Wattle, Snood! Children will visit the Zoo’s turkeys, learn all about these feathered friends, and make a take-home craft!
Ages: 3-6 years
Date: Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Time: 11 – 12pm
Fee: $15/ child and adult (members) $20/ child and adult (non members)
Keeping up with Keepers
Roll up your sleeves and help the keepers care for the animals. Join us behind the scenes to find out what a keeper’s job entails.
Ages: 7-10 years
Dates & Times: Sea Lion: Sunday, October 4th, 1 – 2pm; Meerkats: Saturday, November 7th, 11 – 12pm
Fee: $15/ child and adult (members) $20/ child and adult (non members)
All about Owls
Delve into the winged world of owls! Children will learn how to use field guides to identify these amazing birds, meet a special guest in the Zoo classroom, and will get their hands dirty discovering an owl’s wild diet by dissecting owl pellets.
Ages: 7-10 years
Date: Saturday, December 5th, 2009
Time: 11-12 p.m.
Fee: $15/ child and adult (members) $20/ child and adult (non members)
The Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild places worldwide. We do so through science, global conservation, education and the management of the world's largest system of urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo. Together these activities change attitudes towards nature and help people imagine wildlife and humans living in harmony. WCS is committed to this mission because it is essential to the integrity of life on Earth.
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