Sight! Sound! Smell! Touch! A Multi-sensory Experience at Chester Zoo

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1 Sight! Sound! Smell! Touch! A Multi-sensory Experience at Chester Zoo At Chester Zoo there is more than just seeing animals! You can smell, hear and sense them! Visit the animal enclosures and feel our resin models, smell our scents and listen to our story boards all set on our colourful interpretive signs. We want to make your visit to us as fulfilling and as educational as possible. Our Discovery Programmes are hands-on and interactive and your time around the zoo will be enhanced by the presence of our Zoo Ranger Team. You will find a Zoo Ranger giving talks, in Fruit Bat Forest and cycling around on their trike with a fantastic collection of artefacts which you ll be able to touch as they tell you all about them. Seek out the Zoo Ranger in Fruit Bat Forest and ask questions; you may be shown a bat by using a special torch and you might feel one whizz by you. Our Zoo Ranger Team is there to help you and enrich your day. Chester Zoo is a multi-sensory experience for everyone to enjoy and here are a few ideas to stimulate all the senses. Sound Of course, the first sounds to listen out for are those made by the animals the birds, chimpanzees, Lar Gibbons, Giant Otters and particularly the different kinds of monkeys are good for starters. Our interpretation, though, offers plenty of other sounds to ignite your pupils interest in the natural world: Elephants of the Asian Forest Miniature Monkeys Painted Dogs Video clips with voice over in viewing pavilion Soundboard Soundboard of owl sounds Coucal call, creaking bridge, video clips with voiceover Smell Animal smells are a part of the zoo and particularly pungent ones can be found inside the Elephant house, at the camels and at the Congo Buffalo! More aromatic smells can be found on some of our interpretation. Tiger Trail Scent

2 Touch Your pupils can t feel our animals, but we have lots of interpretation which can be touched and will give an idea of the shape and size of some of the animal and plant kingdom. Spirit of the Jaguar Tigers Tsavo Black Rhino Experience Elephants Monkeys Capuchins Red Panda Giraffes Secret World of the Okapi Glorious Grasses Penguins Islands In Danger Tropical Realm Andean Garden Cloud Forest Artefacts on porch Resin models Life size bronze meerkats Baby bronze elephant Lift up flaps Tortoise model with eggs inside Resin face Resin foot and hand prints Resin face Resin foot and hand prints Resin paw Vertebrate model Model of okapi head, showing huge ears Resin models to touch Wheat Rice Maize Frames have seaweed and shells around to touch Model of Dodo Model of Coco de Mer Bronze Komodo Dragon Model of Hornbill nest Lifesize Tuatara model Lift up flaps Interactive diary Researcher s Hut look out for leaf eared mouse at the corner of the

3 crate Model cubs Rhea egg model Cranes Ostrich Zebra Wildlife Garden Plants Parrot Breeding Centre Model head and seeds Foot and hand prints inside and outside Nest/leaf models Resin foot Egg Resin skull to touch Can touch model badger Resins eg poplar bark Warm eggs in nest to touch Giant Otters Harvest Mouse and Pearl Mussel models Bronze Otter Trail Movement Allow your pupils to sense the zoo s animals! Fruit Bat Forest* Butterfly Journey* Tropical Realm Feel the bats flying around Free flying butterflies and experience the heat Feel the birds flying around *Please note that pupils are not allowed in Fruit Bat Forest or Butterfly Journey unaccompanied.

4 Sight You can see the animals, but you might also want to take a look at Spirit of the Jaguar Tigers Elephants Okapi Tropical Realm Cloud Forest Asian Steppe Video loop Living with the Jaguar Video cam Video clips in viewing pavilion LED sign showing length of tongue Den cam of Hornbill nest Story as book Video clips of cheetahs LED sign for changes in distribution Quiz/nest camera Wildlife Garden Monitor x 2 game Monitor x 3 game LED showing distribution Model fox, hedgehog, frog and toad (UK wildlife) Find our storyboards Spirit of the Jaguar x 2 Monkeys Rhinos x 2 Bears of the Cloud Forest Elephants of the Asian Forest Acting Locally x 2

5 Other interactives for you to consider: Fruit Bat Forest Giant Tortoise Shells Giraffes Plant Hunters How many bats are nesting in the box? Quiz on monitor For crawling through Are you as big as the baby giraffe? Bright yellow signs simple things to do around the Zoo involving neither pen nor paper Monkeys Puzzle feeders x 2 Sand Lizards Rhinos Thermometer Resin books/clipboard Bears of the Cloud Forest Parrot Breeding Centre Asian Plains Researcher s Tent Warm model eggs Mirror; mobile phone info Comparing your size with adult male orangutan cut-out Life sized cut outs

6 Photo opportunities: Tsavo Black Rhino Experience Elephants Islands in Danger Ape Around Play Area Monkeys Life size Meerkats Jeep Campfire and artefacts Hut and artefacts Baby bronze elephant Bronze baby Komodo Dragon Easter Island statues Moa Dodo Giant Tortoise Shells Mandrill model Can you climb like a monkey? Bears of the Cloud Forest Cubs x 3 San Agusin statues Leaf model We hope these suggestions help to provide you with a fulfilling day at Chester Zoo and that your pupils are filled with enthusiasm for the natural world to become the conservationists of the future. As well as all the suggestions above, don t forget our new immersive exhibit, Islands, has lots of sight, sound and smell experiences we ll be updating this document soon with more sensory ideas from Islands.