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Animal I Spy: Animals with Spines

Can you tell an animal from its spines? Test your Animal I Spy skills with our game using animals from the Museum of Zoology. Do you have a favourite animal with spines that we’ve missed? Continue reading Animal I Spy: Animals with Spines

rcw30June 1, 2021August 4, 2021Leave a comment
Photograph of an Asian elephant skull
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Animal Alphabet: E is for Elephant

Join us every Tuesday as we make an alphabet from the animals in the Museum of Zoology. Today is the letter E: E is for elephant, elephant seal, eagle, echidna and egg. Can you think of any others? Join us next week for animals in the Museum beginning with the letter F. Spot the big pink bird, and something that jumps… Continue reading Animal Alphabet: E is for Elephant

rcw30May 5, 2020May 4, 2020Leave a comment
photograph of a brimstone butterfly
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Puggle Club Stories: Eggs!

Lots of different types of animals lay eggs. Can you guess what hatches from these eggs? Eggs come in sizes large and small Today this one’s the biggest of them all It’s shell is thick, I wonder which Animal will hatch – an ostrich! Now what’s this little egg I see Under the leaf of a buckthorn tree? Can we see what hatches? Let give … Continue reading Puggle Club Stories: Eggs!

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