What zoo is it? What is their mission statement? What primates do they have? How many primates do they have? What is the ambience? Is the zoo busy? Do they have educators out talking to people? Are the animals well cared for?
Assignment Question
For your zoo paper, you will take one trip to a regional zoo. You may pick Los Angeles, San Diego, or Santa Ana. If you want to see apes, you must go to Los Angeles or San Diego. This is an experience based paper. You can copy your information into the template for submission. Make any adjustments you need to make for flow.
The pages are as follows:
Page 1: Title page
Page 2: Introduction. Briefly summarize in about one page what your paper is about. Where did you go, what did you see, what did you do.
Pages 3 – 5: Zoo Information. What zoo is it? What is their mission statement? What primates do they have? How many primates do they have? What is the ambience? Is the zoo busy? Do they have educators out talking to people? Are the animals well cared for? Is the zoo clean? Etc. Pages 6 – 7: Photos of primate enclosures.
Pages 8 – 9: Primate information (about the primates you will be observing)
Pages 10 – 11: Observations (it’s the charts you will fill out while watching enclosures, details when we cover primate observation) Page 12: Zoo Mission. Is the zoo fulfilling their mission statement? Are all the signs in one language indicating that they may not be serving all of the population for example. Is the zoo accessible to visitors with disabilities?
Pages 13-14: Personal experience.
Page 15: References. There are a few in the template to help you with APA.
