Micke Grove Zoo

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Scout Programs

The zoo does conduct scout programs. Feel free to contact the zoo make a reservation. 

Girl Scout troops that visited in September 2024

Conservation Education Programs

The Education Center at Micke Grove Zoo offers a range of programs that highlight a variety of species for zoo visitors and the wider local community. During the education programs, the Education staff discuss natural history, conservation impacts, and the dwindling population numbers of the zoo's animal residents in their natural habitat.

The main purpose of these education programs is to improve the knowledge of wildlife and to increase respect for nature within San Joaquin County. Some animals, called ambassador animals, participate in these education programs. These include a female red-tailed hawk, two female African leopard tortoises, a male red-eared slider, a male Kenyan sand boa, a group of Vietnamese walking sticks, a group of Madagascar hissing cockroaches, and two male bearded dragons.

 

The Education staff conduct a diversity of programs to cater to different age groups. Some of these programs are:

  • Guided zoo tours: Education staff members take groups on guided tours through the zoo and share information about the zoo’s animal residents.

  • Amphitheater programs: Education staff members conduct group presentations in the Zoo Amphitheater where they share key information regarding conservation issues and environmental impacts on wildlife.

  • Events and at schools: Education staff members set up tables with bio facts and share information on the pet trade, illegal hunting, forest fragmentation and its conservation impacts, and some information about our animal residents.

  • Virtual education programs: Education staff members conduct virtual education programs for school groups that are unable to visit the zoo.

Visit the zoo to see the female pudu

 

Girls Scouts made a long firehose braid for animal enrichment

 

Hissers are very popular animal ambassadors since they hiss!

 

Nairobi, our geriatric sand boa, although semi-retired sometimes is taken to events

 

 

 

Inanna, our red-tailed hawk ambassador bird is quite impressive when she is taken for walks around the zoo