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Whilst the 8/9 team worked on the set up of our pits and managed the cars through scrutineering, the 6/7 team together with 5 parents and teachers headed off to Monarto Zoo for the afternoon. We were joined by our guide Mr Richard Arberry who accompanied us on our bus and introduced us to the many species of animals that call Monarto home. Following our drive through the park were also spent time at the Chimpanzee, Meerkat and Yellow Footed Rock Wallaby exhibits. Among the animals we viewed was the Mesopotamian Fallow Deer. This animal is critically endangered in their native habitat and it has been recorded that the total population in reserves and free range in 2001 was only 290 animals. We also visited the Giraffes and met the famous giraffe - Kinki, named because her neck is kinked and out of place. When Kinki’s mother gave birth to her, she was sick and unconscious and had to give birth sitting down (Giraffes are supposed to give birth standing up). The zoo first thought that she wouldn’t survive, but miraculously she did and just recently gave birth to her own beautiful baby girl giraffe. Another highlight of the visit to Monarto was visiting the lions. We discovered that the felines are actually in control of hunting and need to hunt for the males because of their manes. We had quite a chuckle at the saying, ‘Big manes, no brains’. Because a lion’s manes are so large, they can easily be spotted when hunting prey. The highlight of the day had to be the chimps because they have a toddler ‘Enzi’ who will be two years old on the 19th of October. Enzi has an older sister called Zuri who is five years old. Like human brothers and sisters they love to play around and today they were trying to steal a blanket from each other. Arriving back to the track after our visit, we went for a walk around the track to get used to it and we saw many amazing, cool, crazy pedal prix cars along the way. The timed practice runs then commenced and there were a couple of crashes (mostly around crash corner). The fastest time for our Navigator College group was 2mins 50secs made by a Year 9 - Aaron Thomas.
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