Orana Park

Yesterday, we went to Orana Park, my class, 7/8al, 7/8ds, and 7/8mt, we went there by riding two buses. A van that's used to send students back at school when they're not behaving properly.

The first thing we did when we got there was to eat our morning tea. After that, we were given stickers that had our name and a number on it. There were 4 groups in total, I was put in group 4. Our group, group 4, went to the kea. We saw 2 of them close up, we saw how they eat their food, how they fly and run. Our educator said that keas are going extinct due to climate change, the temperature is heating up. Causing kea's habitat, alpine, in the south island, snow to melt.

Next animal(s) went to visit was the geckos, frogs, crickets, tuatara and tortoise, sadly the tuatara and the tortoise weren't in their cages because it was cold and they were too young to be put in their cages yet.


Our educator then showed as three pests in New Zealand, the stoats, rats and ferrets. They were real animals that had their intestines taken out and was stuffed.

She showed us the comparison between a chicken and a kiwi egg, the chicken egg is a lot smaller than the kiwi egg. She also explained that when a baby chicken is in the chicken egg, they're weird looking like how an alien looks like but when a baby kiwi is in the egg, it already has feathers, that's why the egg is huge.

Lions were next, and then the tiger and the emu. Emus are as large as an ostrich and they look the same. The Tasmanian devil was the next, it ran around its cage and they looked like rats, it also had fangs.

After that, we were lining up, waiting for our turn, one by one, we fed the giraffes. Elizabeth, the instructor, explained the proper way to feed a giraffe, we needed to hold the leaves with two hands since a giraffes tongue is stronger than us. The giraffes were long and blue-ish purple with a hint of pink.



After feeding the giraffes, we ate our lunch, we sat on the benches. I ate lunch with my friends, it was really funny because one friend of mine brought skittles and all my other friends and I were begging her to give us some, it was total chaos.

After eating lunch, we visited the unicorns, they weren't actually real unicorns, they were rhinos, since both rhinos and unicorns have horns.

We also saw water buffalos, African wild dogs - people mistook them for hyenas - we also saw cheetah, the fastest animal in the earth with a speed of 120 kilometres, the last animals we got to see spider monkeys and gorillas.

We didn't see all the animals but it was a fun experience.