The fartets already have everything they need for reproduction, the two males and the 4 females are ready to help save the species.
You can see some very fat females ready to lay their eggs in the mops that have prepared them like seaweed.
We hope and wish that the laying of eggs is great!
The students of the schools, who are participating in this project, are doing a great job and are learning a lot about this endangered native species!
The students of the IES Torre Roja de Viladecans have come to interview a veterinarian from our team of veterinarians to resolve all the important doubts about the tasks they carry out every day with the animals of the Zoo.
It has been very enriching and interesting!
Hair, feathers, scales, bare skin are the covers they have discovered to know what type of vertebrate it is.
Teeth: sharp and flat to talk about food.
Eggs of different shapes, sizes and hardness to know who laid them.
Breeds like the giraffe to talk about viviparous.
Then they went to visit different vertebrates where the Zoo educators explained curiosities about the species and the individuals of the Zoo. As well as the type of food and the dangers they face in their habitat.
It has been a day full of discoveries!
The skeletons of the 5 types of vertebrates, the reproduction, the covers of each type of vertebrate and the senses are some of the aspects that these boys and girls have worked on in this workshop.
With the help of a Zoo educator who has been leading them through these issues and resolving their doubts, they have been able to know all these aspects.
Then they were able to take a walk to see some vertebrates and comment on their most curious features.
It's been a lot of fun!
2nd year ESO students have researched what the different kingdoms are. And within the animal kingdom they have delved into the phylum of chordates or vertebrates.
Then, as scientists have identified until reaching the species, with the help of dichotomous keys, some mammals appreciating special characteristics of the same.
And finally, they have worked the food chains building a food web in a Mediterranean forest.
By doing the workshop they were able to appreciate the great variety of life forms on our planet!
Pupils from P4 and P5 have come to visit the zoo to learn about wild animals, to see what they eat and where they live.
A few partners today have enjoyed the explanations of one of the Zoo’s educators about the conservation programs being carried out from the Zoo.
They have been able to see some of the species that are within these programs and have learned what the process is to save them from extinction.
They have also been informed of the threats that have led them, in some cases almost to extinction and in others, to extinction in freedom.
They have also resolved all the doubts that have arisen for them as there is a lot of ignorance among the citizens.
During this school year, fewer schools from Barcelona will develop a project called: “Save the Fartet”. With that project Delta del Llobregat consortium and Zoo wants to raise awareness about this endangered species, because they are disappearing from our lakes and make sure they take part on this plan. Other objectives that we have with this project, is to make sure they have more surface to live and to increase the Fartet’s population.
Some pupils from IES La Guineueta had come to visit us and to do some work related with the biodiversity. They have done work groups to learn the main characteristic of some animals, they have studied the phylogenetic ordination and they discovered what a dichotomus key is and they learned how to use it.
P4 students from Ciutat Comtal School have visited Barcelona's Zoo to discover wild animals through games and activities. They have learned where they live and what they eat. In addition, they have visited the animals they studied, and of course they paid more attention to the lions explanation, because it's the name of their class.
