What a wonderful day we had at Twycross zoo! Luckily the rain held off (with just one short shower) and everyone really enjoyed themselves.

We started the day by visiting all the different monkeys. We went to see the spider monkeys and the lady from the zoo told us some very interesting facts about them. We were also able to answer some of her questions as we have learnt about them as part of our rainforest topic. It was very exciting to watch them swinging about and we thought the baby was very cute!

Miss Williams (who has visited the zoo lots of times!) was very excited to see that the Amur leopards were right by the windows! She had never seen them before as they were usually hiding at the back of their enclosure. We watched them play fighting with each other and they were fascinating to watch. Next we went to see the meerkats and penguins. We decided they were both very nosy animals as they just stood on lookout the whole time we were there! Then we went to visit the tapirs. Unfortunately they were inside having a snooze instead of roaming around so we couldn’t see them walking but this did mean that we were able to see them very close up. We were shocked at how enormous they were! We thought they looked a bit like very large pigs!

We also saw the orang-utans, lorikeets, butterflies and pets before we had a lovely picnic lunch together. After lunch we went to play in the park and had such a great time! There was lots of different equipment, even the teachers had fun!

We started our afternoon by going to the discovery centre where Bethan taught us a wonderful lesson about animal habitats and adaptation. She was very impressed with how much we knew and how well behaved we were. Our teachers were very proud! We got to meet Alan the giant cockroach and Eddy the bearded-dragon. Bethan gave us some very interesting facts about them and then we were allowed to stroke them if we wanted to. Most of us were very brave at stroked at least one of them.

In the afternoon our favourite animals were the elephants and giraffes. We had spent all day looking forward to seeing them! The giraffes were much taller than we had expected them to be! Then we went hunting for Ganesh and had a photo in our groups. We also saw: lemurs, flamingos, tortoises, a boa constrictor, peacock, zebras, parrots, owls, cranes, marmosets, capybaras and many more!

Overall we had such an amazing day. Our teachers were extremely proud of how well-behaved we were all day and how much we had learnt. Well done Toucans!