By: Diana Soria

Learning Goals
• Students will be able to list the
characteristics of each animal.
• Students will be able to select a favorite
animal from the presentation and talk
about it.
• Students will be able to state the main
ideas of the videos.
 It is home to more than
It is in Swope Park at
1,300 animals and is an
6800 Zoo Drive Kansas
accredited member of
City, Missouri, in the
the Association of Zoos
United States
and Aquariums.

Kansas the Kansas City Zoo was

The zoo is divided into
five areas of the
following themes:

City Zoo
voted one of America's
Africa, Australia, Tiger
best zoos.
Trail, KidZone and The
Valley.

You can live look at

animals that call the
Kansas City Zoo home.
Kid ZONE
Polar Bear Passage
Polar bear fur is made up of a dense,
insulating underfur that is topped by
guard hairs that vary in length. The fur
prevents almost all heat loss.

To keep them warm, polar bears have

black skin over a thick layer of fat that
can measure up to 11.4 centimeters
(4.49 inches).
Adult males normally weight 350 to
more than 600 kilograms (775 to more
than 1,300 pounds). Adult females are
smaller, normally weighing 150 to 290
kilograms (330 to 650 pounds)
Polar Bear
Helzberg
Penguin Plaza
Most penguins feed
on krill, fish, squid and other
forms of sea life which they
catch while swimming
underwater.

They spend roughly half

of their lives on land and
the other half in the sea.

Penguins have a thick layer of

insulating feathers that keeps
them warm in water (heat loss in
water is much greater than in
air).
PENGUIN
AFRICA
African Bush
Elephants
The African bush elephant is the largest land
mammal in the world and the largest of the
three elephant species.

African elephants live up to 70 years, longer

than any other mammal except humans.

Females give birth to a single calf after a 22-

month gestation, the longest gestation period
among mammals.
African Bush
Elephants
Cheetah
It is the fastest land animal, capable
of running at 80 to 128 km/h (50 to
80 mph).

Its head is small, rounded, and has a

short snout and black tear-like facial
streaks.

The cheetah is active mainly during the

day and hunting is its major
preoccupation, with peaks during dawn
and dusk.
Cheetah
Chimpanzee
Chimpanzee is a The chimpanzee is covered
species of great in coarse black hair, but
ape native to the forest has a bare face, fingers,
and savannah of tropic toes, palms of the hands,
al Africa. and soles of the feet

The chimpanzee lives in

groups that range in size
Its gestation period is eight from 15 to 150 members,
months. although individuals travel
and forage in much smaller
groups during the day.

The chimpanzee is more

robustly built than the
bonobo but less than the
gorilla. The arms of a chimp
are longer than its legs, and
can reach below the knees
AUSTRALIA
White Cockatoo

The white cockatoo

nests in hollows of large white cockatoos feed
trees. Its eggs are white on berries, seeds, nuts,
and there are usually fruit and roots.
two in a clutch..

The male white

During the incubation cockatoo usually has a
period is about 28 days broader head and a
and both the female bigger beak than the
and male incubate the female.
eggs.
Koalas
Koala bear is
an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to
Australia.

Koalas typically inhabit

open eucalypt woodlands, and the leaves of
these trees make up most of their diet.

The koala has one of the smallest brains in

proportion to body weight of any mammal.

The koala's gestation period lasts 33–35 days,

and a female gives birth to a single joey .