Caretakers

The caretaker is responsible for the care of the zoo animal within its habitat.  He/she must know the animal's feeding habits, special characteristics, diseases, sleeping patterns, and diet.  As a caretaker, you must find out as much information about the care of your animal as possible and compile a notebook to store the information.

First you will want to visit the Riverbanks Zoo web site:

Home page for the Riverbanks Zoo

http://www.riverbanks.org/

Explore the zoo – animals at the zoo

http://www.riverbanks.org/s02zoo/ 

Once your class has chosen the new animal you want to add to the zoo, you will want to gather information on how to care for your animal:

Animal information

http://www.thewildones.org/animal.html

The Electronic Zoo

http://netvet.wustl.edu/e-zoo.htm

More Animal Facts

http://wcs.org/7617

http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/animals.html

http://www.zooish.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/

http://wildwnc.org/af/index.html

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/kids/index.htm

Look at these sites to find out what other zoos know about your animal:

http://netvet.wustl.edu/zoo.htm