Feathers, Fur and Scales School Incursion
What will you see in the Feathers, Fur and Scales Show?
In the Feathers, Fur and Scales show students and teachers will get to see a possum, sugar glider, eclectus parrot, red-tail black cockatoo, kookaburra, monitor lizard, python and a crocodile.
What will you learn in the Feathers, Fur and Scales Show?
Prep – Year 4
This show focuses around the differences between feathered, furry and scaly animals. Discussion is based around body shapes and structure. Do animals come out during the day time or do they come out at night time? Nocturnal versus diurnal. What do they like to eat? Are they omnivorous, carnivorous or herbivorous? Do they live on the ground or do they live in the trees? Arboreal versus terrestrial. What is it called when animals blend in with their environment?
Year 5 – 8
What is the difference between predators and prey? Are they meat eaters or plant eaters? Are they omnivorous, carnivorous or herbivorous? How do these animals protect themselves in the wild? Do they give birth to live young or do they lay eggs? What is the difference between an ectotherm and an endotherm? How do they metabolize their food?
Year 9 – 10
How do reptiles regulate their body temperature? Why do some animals chose to come out at night time? What features do these animals have to protect them from predation? How do these creatures detect their prey? Classification of species, what does it mean? How have these creature evolved over time?
Who is the Feathers, Fur and Scales Show suited to?
TThe Feathers, Fur and Scales show is suited to students from Prep upwards. Everyone gets a thrill out of seeing Sammi the Red-tail Black Cockatoo!
All animals are subject to availability.
Show Costs
- 1 Feathers, Fur & Scales Show $300 inc GST
- 2 Feathers, Fur & Scales Shows $520 inc GST
- 3 Feathers, Fur & Scales Shows $700 inc GST
- 4 Feathers, Fur & Scales Shows $845 inc GST
- 5 Feathers, Fur & Scales Shows $1010 inc GST
- 6 Feathers, Fur & Scales Shows $1170 inc GST
All shows are tailored to student age and class size. Suitable for pre-school to junior high school age. All animals are subject to availability. Prices for multiple shows are based on shows performed on the same day. Your Reptile Encounter takes 1 hour and has a limit of 30 students.
Learn about our Australian Reptiles school show.
Learn about our Insects & Minibeasts school show.
