School Visits!

I would just like to say a really big thank you to the following schools who visited the Manchester Museum over the past couple of months. All the schools listed below had special sessions with the live animals and I have to say that it has been a real pleasure to teach such great kids. THANK YOU!! 
 
Cribden House [...]

Remembering the Lemur Leaf Frog!

A company in the USA, called S.O.S,  now makes a fun and very informative memory game that helps kids to discover some fascinating facts about a wide variety of the world’s most endangered animals. The new version will even to feature the Lemur Leaf Frog, Hylomantis lemur, from Costa Rica! The game is a great educational tool and hopefully in the future we [...]

Fish to Frogs!

 
Well, I’m just about over my jetlag after flying back to Manchester, but what a wonderful visit to America it was. It was such a pleasure to meet everyone at Atlanta Zoo and also the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, who made me very welcome. My talk  seemed to be very well received and I even got to go behind the scenes and [...]

Hunting salamanders in Atlanta!

Yesterday I had the most amazing day looking for salamanders a couple of hours North of Atlanta in the mountains with my friend Ron Gagliardo and also Robert Hill of ABG, it was wonderful. We set off to look for a very rare species that only occurs in the limestone rock crevices of Pigeon Mountain. [...]