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Get creative! Make your very own Zoo at home. Use whatever building materials you like. You could even include RAFT some features of your favourite animals at Wellington Zoo. CHALLENGE Here are a few suggestions to get you started: C Tick the circles when you’ve made your Sun Bear creation Spider Chimpanzee Monkey Named for the golden rising sun on Humans share ~96% Spider Monkeys their chest, just like of our DNA with have an amazing Sasa at Wellington Chimps! We think prehensile tail they Zoo. Kitwe got all the can use like a fifth playfulness genes. hand! Primate Savannah Habitat We’re going to need Make sure to somewhere for our include some trees Giraffe herds of African for your primates animals to live. to play on. Did you know, a Kororā (Little group of Giraffes Blue Penguin) Tiger is called a Kororā are the tower! Those stripes aren’t smallest species of just for fashion, Penguin in the they help Tigers world, and the camouflage in their most adorable. jungle homes! Tuatara Scheltopusik (Shell-toe-pyou-sick) RAFT Even though they C E Don’t worry it’s G look like lizards, CHALLEN they’re an ancient not a snake, just reptile from the a legless lizard. dinosaur age! Lion Terrarium While Wellington Wētā What kind of Zoo has two female Make sure to habitat do reptiles Lionesses, don’t include some trees and invertebrates forget that super Kiwi if you’re making a live in? impressive mane on Wellington Tree the males! Kiwi are the world’s Wētā. smallest ratite species, much smaller than Emus and Ostrich. Kunekune Have you completed Ostrich Even though they’re the craft challenge? Just like the Kiwi, an Tarantula not native to NZ, we Ostrich is flightless! love our Kunekune We’d love to see your zoo But don’t worry, Remember: spiders pigs. Even Atanga creations! Send your photos to those long legs have 8 legs, not 6; with his big [email protected] make it a world this makes them tusks! class sprinter. arachnids, not insects..

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