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Bronx Zoo Summer Camp [Animal Studies - Zoology]

From its earliest days, the Wildlife Conservation Society has been a leader in animal wellbeing. The flagship Bronx Zoo established its first veterinary department in 1901. At the time, the department consisted only of a pathologist and a veterinarian. Today, the Wildlife Health Sciences division includes departments of clinical care, pathology, nutrition, and field veterinary programs. The Wildlife Health Center, located on Bronx Zoo grounds, serves more than 15,000 animals from the four WCS zoos in New York. The state-of-the-art Aquatic Animal Health Center at the New York Aquarium opened in 2008 to meet the unique challenges of caring for its collection of marine animals. The high-tech hospital includes a laboratory and an operating room, several pools for patients with flippers, X-ray machines, and a kitchen for preparing meals for residents of all sizes, from a tiny seahorse to a 3,000-pound walrus.

Address:

2300 Southern Boulevard

Bronx, NY 10460

P. (718) 220-5100

W. Bronx Zoo Summer Programs

E. Bronx Zoo

Academic
Biology
Zoology
Animal Care
Nature Studies

Ages 8-12

Discovering the unique wildlife of Madagascar!
Exploring the beautiful Butterfly Garden Traveling through Tiger Mountain
Journeying to the spectacular Congo Gorilla
Forest Designing their own day of zoo adventure
Observing mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians up close each day
Learning ways they can protect animals and habitats

Ages 13-17

See animals up-close.
Meet a diverse group of zoo professionals including zoo-keepers, field biologists, and exhibit designers.
Assist in the Children’s Zoo and Camel Barn animal facilities.
Gain a unique look at what it takes to run a world-famous zoo.
Explore Tiger Mountain, with its emphasis on enrichment for these massive cats.
Observe behaviors of gorillas in the Congo Gorilla Forest and lemurs in Madagascar!
Survey more than 1,000 butterflies in our Butterfly Garden.
Conduct field ecology studies in some of the Zoo’s hidden natural areas.

Camp Type: Day

Camp Gender: Coed

Ages: 8-12 and 13-17

Affiliation: N/A

Camp Programs and Sessions

Animal Kingdom Camp

This summer your 8 to 12 year old can explore the wonders of wildlife during an unforgettable week — or two — at Animal Kingdom Camp. For the first time ever, your child can extend the fun for a second consecutive week of new animal adventures! Whether setting out on an African safari to see lions, wild dogs, and hyenas; exploring tropical forests in search of endangered lowland gorillas; or trekking through mountains in search of a rare, snow leopard, children will discover the amazing diversity of the animal kingdom.

This year’s Animal Kingdom Camp is chock-full of new activities, so last year’s campers are welcome to return.

Whether for one week or two*, your child’s adventure will include:

Discovering the unique wildlife of Madagascar!
Exploring the beautiful Butterfly Garden
Traveling through Tiger Mountain
Journeying to the spectacular Congo Gorilla Forest
Designing their own day of zoo adventure
Observing mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians up close each day
Learning ways they can protect animals and habitats

No child can be admitted without a completed health form, signed by a physician, due four weeks before each session begins.

Food: Participants must bring lunches and beverages (refrigeration available). Afternoon snacks will be provided daily. *To take advantage of the two-week option, parents will need to purchase two consecutive sessions of camp. Parents do not attend.

Please Click here for a Full List of Sessions Available:

Animal Kingdom Camp sessions and rates

Pablo Python Looks at Animals

Pablo Python will introduce your child to the wonderful world of animal sizes, shapes, colors, patterns, textures, sounds, locomotion, and diet. Now offered as a one-week or two-consecutive-week option (with new adventures!), Pablo will teach children, ages 4 to 7, to become keen observers of nature. Whether for one week or two consecutive weeks*, Pablo participants will:

Meet animals up close each day
Observe beautiful butterflies at the Butterfly Garden
Take a ride on our Bug Carousel
Get nose to nose(through a viewing window, of course!) with our tigers at Tiger Mountain
Explore the Children’s Zoo and feed a bevy of barnyard animals
Go on Safari to the African Plains – lions, and zebras, and giraffes, oh my!

No child can be admitted without a completed health form, signed by a physician, due four weeks before the session begins. Food: Participants must bring lunches and beverages (refrigeration available). Afternoon snacks will be provided daily. *To take advantage of the two-week option, parents will need to purchase two consecutive sessions. Parents do not attend.

Please Click here for a Full List of Sessions Available:

Pablo Python Looks at Animals Sessions and Rates

YOUTH Winter Programs

The snow leopards and polar bears are waiting for children to join them for some frosty fun on this two-day holiday adventure. There isn’t a more exciting way for your children to spend their winter break than at the Bronx Zoo, in the company of our expert instructors and critters of the cold. Children will visit red pandas, brown bears, and Siberian tigers, to observe firsthand how these cold weather lovers enjoy a New York December.

The fun will snowball as children ages 8 to 12 decipher the clues to a temperate forest tracking story and children ages 5 to 7 watch the Bronx Zoo’s puppet players, including a lovable Snow Beast. In both sessions, children will meet animals up close, play wintry games, and end each day with hot cocoa and cookies. Parents do not attend.

Regular Price: $140.00

Member Price: $130.00

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