4th grade ESO students visit us to discover the great diversity of primates that exist on the planet with the help of a Zoo educator.

There are all sizes, such different family groups, often very specialized diets, complex ways of communicating, great physical but also mental abilities, with great success in building tools and problem solving.

Some more similar than others to us what they have in common are the dangers that threaten them in their habitats facts that make one of the few chances of survival is their conservation from zoos.

The second graders have become experts in different animals with the help of a Zoo educator who has explained all their secrets to them with the help of biological material!

Not only have they known what kind of vertebrates they belong to but also how they are born, how they communicate, how they move, eat, where and how they live.

It has been a visit full of discoveries!

Today it was their turn to come to the Zoo to see everything the animals need to have good welfare.

Not only are facilities important, so are group or facility mates, food, environmental enrichment programs, veterinary equipment, and a good team of experienced caregivers who can quickly spot any problems or changes in the behavior of the animal.

The boys and girls of P4 of Peter IV would never have thought that they would want a unicorn and less that they could touch one!

All myths begin with a certain part decorated with an invented part, and this is also the case with the unicorn.

With the help of the Zoo educator, they have been researching the myth of the unicorn and have been discovering, little by little, through a story, the real animal that hides behind it.

The boys and girls from the two first grade classes have come to see us to learn a lot about the different groups of vertebrates!

How to differentiate them by the covers, how they move and whether they do it fast or not, what they feed on, how they breathe, which senses they use the most, how their families are, how they reproduce ... for this has been able to observe closely biological material of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

In addition, the educators of the Zoo have told them a lot of curiosities about the species they have visited.

Today some families have come to spend the day together at the Barcelona Zoo !!!

Little by little, they have been discovering some secrets of the Zoo and the animals that live there accompanied by one of the most veteran educators of the Zoo, who knows a thousand and one anecdotes of all the animals they have visited.

They were also able to ask all the questions that came to mind about the animals and the Zoo.

It's been a great day!

Third graders have come to research different characteristics of vertebrates in our workshop!

They have tested their senses as good mammals, discovered the covers of all vertebrates, found the most important parts of each of the vertebrate skeletons, and investigated the types of reproduction and fertilization of each type of vertebrate!

And for those who have gone faster it has given them time to look at what the bones are called, or to reconstruct the reproductive sequence of the animals.

Today the first ESO students had the second session of the Zoo Interdisciplinary Project.

They will have the opportunity to see different facilities and learn what factors are involved in animal welfare.

One of these factors in which they have participated is that of environmental enrichment, one of the tasks carried out at the Zoo to improve animal welfare.

Enrichments are personalized, not only by species but also by individual. And every day they are different!

4th grade ESO students come to do the 3 sessions of this fantastic workshop to be great experts in primates.

Today they are doing the second session, once the Zoo educator explained all the characteristics of the different primates and the adaptations of each to the environment where they live, during the first day.

Today it's time to investigate. What are the most important senses and how is it reflected in the different skulls ?. Thus, they have been able to see the evolution of the sense of smell, sight, cranial capacity ... depending on the type of primate ...

The three P4 classes have come to discover the animals that have given rise to the name of their classes: lions, wild animals and unicorns.

The class of unicorns step by step and with the help of a story told to them by their Zoo educator they have discovered that unicorns exist and not only that, at the Zoo we have one!

Through this story and a series of clues they have discovered that the unicorn is the rhino !!!