Clownfish
Clownfish and certain damselfish are the only species of fishes that can avoid the potent poison of a sea anemone. This is due to a layer of mucus on the clownfish’s skin that makes it immune to the fish-eating anemone’s lethal sting.
Zoo Crafts
Here at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo, we love crafts -- especially ones that are animal-themed. We'll be adding more crafts in the future, so check back soon!
Toilet Paper Roll Naked Mole Rat
Milk Carton Penguin
Materials:
Empty, clean ½-pint milk cartons with tops cut off
White acrylic paint
Paintbrushes
Pink and black construction paper
Glue
Scissors
Crayons
- Cut the top off a ½-pint milk carton. Using acrylic paint (tempera will not stick to the waxy carton and will flake off), paint the carton white
- While the paint is drying, cut out the body, flippers, beak and feet. Trace them onto black construction paper. Ask an adult to help, if needed.
- For the beak, draw a diamond shape on the pink construction paper and cut it out. Fold the diamond in half and draw small dots for the nose and a tongue inside the fold. Glue the folded part to the penguin’s face.
- Draw eyes on the penguin’s head or use googly eyes.
- Look at a picture of a Humboldt penguin and draw the body markings with a white crayon.
- When the carton is dry, glue on the penguin’s parts.
- Fill your penguin’s ‘belly’ with whatever you like! We like to use Swedish fish!
