Staten Island Zoo Hosts Endangered Species Day 5/22

Alligators, Spider monkeys, frogs, bees, Amur Leopards and rattlesnakes are some of the animals featured during Endangered Species Day at the Staten Island Zoo, Saturday, May 22, 2010 10:30 a.m- 3:30 p.m.

Find out about the animals that need your help. Not only the animals from the rainforest, coral reef, or polar caps, but animals right here in New York. Have Animal encounters, keeper talks, and crafts for the children. Free with zoo admission.

Animals that are endangered or threatened are mostly due to human impact. Many species are declining to critical population levels, important habitats are being destroyed, fragmented, and degraded, and ecosystems are being de-established through climate change, pollution, invasive species, and direct human impacts. During Endangered Species day the Staten Island Zoo highlights many of these animals that are endangered or threatened. A schedule of the one-hour Keeper Talks about these animals is as follows:

10:30 Chinese Alligator
11:30-Spider monkey
12:30 frogs
1:30 Amur Leopard
2:30 Red Panda
3:30 Aruba Rattlesnake

And since it is World Turtle day on May 23rd the Zoo will also be featuring turtle talks. Chester (Chet) Crowl, Staten Island Beekeeper will also be on hand for a first hand look at the bee.