Enjoy both an entertaining and an educational one hour adventure into the animal kingdom. We will bring our animal ambassadors who will help you understand their natural world. We will tell you interesting facts about their diets, enemies, and special adaptations that help them survive and thrive. 

 

• Teachers, are you having trouble getting kids excited about geography. Have you ever heard of New Caledonia? By the time we finish with your students, they will know where it is and they will know all about a species of gecko that was thought to be extinct. We have skinks from the Solomon Islands, tortoises from Russia, dragons and a marsupial from Australia as well as many animals from Africa and South America.
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Come close to some of the most fascinating and feared creatures in the animal kingdom. Reptiles and amphibians come to you straight from the deserts, bogs and forest of our planet. Touch a tortoise, s-s-snuggle a s-s-snake, giggle at a gecko and have a late lunch with a lizard. Great slimy, scaly fun.

 

Whose skull is this? What bone is that? See and touch bones from many different species. Some of the bones we will bring are a camel skull, warthog skull, various reptile bones, ostrich, birds, bison and more. We will compare an alligator skull to a crocodile skull, a real giraffe neck bone to a plastic human neck bone model. Play our "Deer in a Bucket" game and reconstruct a deer skeleton. Who knew "BONES" could be  so much fun.

 

See and feel real 65 million year old dinosaur bones and meet some of the living links to the "Age of the Dinosaurs" such as an alligator, tortoise, and scorpion.  Discover the wonders of Coprolite! We also have life sized replicas of dinosaur eggs, Utahraptor foot, Allosaurus hand with claws, a large segment of a Tyrannosaurus Rex skull, a Pleistocene Alligator skull and much more.  

 

A total hands-on Safari adventure for participants with little or no vision.
Special programs also available for special education classes or groups with learning disabilities.

 

Learn what is happening to the land where the animals live and why places, not just animals, can become endangered, too.

 

Enter the nocturnal realm of creatures of the night. Learn how they live under the cover of darkness.

 

Living with with rattlesnakes in Sonoma County.

Warm weather brings people out of their homes and snakes out of their dens, leading to close encounters of the s-s-slithering kind. Snakes don’t have anyone to call when you end up on their doorstep but you will have someone to call when they end up on yours. California has many types of snakes, most of which are harmless with the exception the northern pacific rattlesnake, Northern California’s only venomous snake.

We offer a class in local snake identification and what to do if you encounter a rattlesnake. You will learn how to tell the difference between a gopher snake and a rattlesnake. We will also teach you how to safely contain a rattlesnake for the safety of all involved including the rattlesnake. We will give you contact information for either TWO CHICKS or Reptile Rescue to come and pick them up. We will have available safe capture equipment for purchase if you so desire.

This class is appropriate for individuals, home owner associations, wineries, park employees, field workers, scout leaders, campers, hikers and hunters, and anyone dealing with rural outdoors.

This class is geared primarily for adults.