Collecting Data

For the past four weeks we've been conducting observations and single-family interviews during some of the Bronx Zoo's Education programs. The Education department runs a variety of programs that includes up-close animal encounters; for our study, we have focused on family and adult programs. So far during our five observations, program participants have met a dab lizard, a screech owl, an armadillo, a box turtle, fennec foxes,  white-throated monitors, black-bellied whistling ducks, ball pythons, and sloths.

We've heard some great quotes from our program participants and thought we would share some of the ones we've liked the best so far, we will start with our favorite quotes from up-close experiences with the white-throated monitor lizard:

 

White-throated monitor. Julie Larsen Maher (c) WCS

Children's questions about the white-throated monitor:

• "Does he breathe with his tongue?"

• "How many kilometers or inches is he?"

• "Why is he a little bit pointy?"

• "Do they have a nose?"