Animals and Zookeepers

Asia, Savannah, Alyssa, Jamira, Antonio, and Kervens

Glen Avenue School

Grade 5

Welcome to our Aurasma ProjectDirections:You will need to have your iPad logged into the Aurasma app.

When you see the Aurasma symbolscan the screen with your iPad.

A purple swirl will appear and then the video will load.

Double tap to capture the video and then double tap to release the video when you’re done viewing the video.

Zookeepers Jobs

• Keepers, who work in zoos, provide direct care for animals.

• Their daily job includes feeding, cleaning, enrichment, training, monitoring animal health, and educating visitors.

• Zoo keepers care for different types of animals such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates.

Zookeepers

• There are three kinds of zookeepers at a zoo.• Head zookeepers supervise a section or a

department of the institution. They also provide training and scheduling for keepers.

• Senior keepers are found in each department and provide primary animal care to the animals in their department.

• Keepers provide daily care to the institution’s animals, including diet preparation, cleaning general exhibit maintenance, and record keeping.

Caribbean Flamingo

• The Caribbean Flamingo is the “brightest” of all flamingos

• It shows it’s true colors of red, pink, or orange on it’s legs, bill and face.

• They eat flies, shrimp and mollusks.

Swamp Monkeys

• They have webbed feet to paddle in the water.

• Live near water. • Love to have company and play with each

other • Swamp monkeys have gray and green skin. • Swamp monkeys make a grunting noise to

maintain contact between members of the group.

American Alligators

• The alligators eat fish, turtles, mammals, and birds.

• The name “alligator’’ comes from the Spanish word el legarto meaning “the lizard.’’

• When alligators hatch from their eggs, alligators are ten inches long and black with yellow stripes and splotches.

Credits

All photographs were found on the following websites:

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/zoo/?ar_a=1

https://www.aazk.org/zoo-keeping-as-a-career/

http://www.aazk.org/wp-content/uploads/keeper_information.pdf

http://www.aza.org/Education/detail.aspx?id=260

http://kids.sandiegozoo.org/animals