This not too great photo is of L's first of three classes at the Central Park Zoo. It was kids only, so I don't know exactly what they did, but when she came out of it, L told me that she had petted a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach. "It was kind of cute," was the comment. Also that there was a snake who didn't like to be petted backwards, because "that's like having his hair brushed backwards. Snakes don't like that."
After the class, the kids were given a set of photos and ushered into the Rainforest exhibit for a scavenger hunt. We found Victoria Crown pigeons, Cotton Top tamarins, poison frogs, fruit bats, and many other cool birds and animals. Oh yeah, the mouse deer was really cute. Even though I thought he was more like a rat deer.
She must have learned something, because when I showed her a map of the different layers in a rainforest, she rolled her eyes and said, in her most bored, teenaged voice, "I already know all that, mom." Then she rolled off: "The emergent layer, the canopy, the understory and the forest floor." Brightening up, she added, "That's where the cockroaches live."
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