Each day, as Zoo Education Programers, we learn too!
Kids are so clever. We were at a school in the Kansas City area presenting the program “Fur, Feathers, Scales and Slime.” In the program we talk about the different coverings that animals have, like mammals have fur, birds have feathers, etc. The instructor asked the students if birds had to be able to fly if they were called a bird. The kids answered together “no.” So the natural next question asked by the instructor is “what birds cannot fly?” There was one student who was waving their raised hand excitedly. The instructor called on him certain he had the correct answer and he replied “dead ones.”
Kelly, School & Outreach Coordinator
