Zagreb Zoo

Date: 24.06.2011.

4goZOO award quiz has finished! The fun part of the job then started - reading your answers. We would like to thank everybody that participated, however we still had to choose only 3 most original answers. Here are the young authors that simply impressed us with their answers:

STJEPAN VRBANEK
DUSTIN BOŽIĆ
VITO KLOBUČAR

Here are also their answers, we hope you will enjoy reading them.

Author: STJEPAN VRBANEK
Dear Sirs and Madams! I do not know how to write yet but I can talk very well. I asked my mommy to write instead of me. I promise I will learn to write soon. Thank you for this quiz. Here are my answers:
1. My daddy says that the ostrich runs as fast as an Fićo (old car Zastava). My mommy says that the ostrich can run 70 km/h. I agree with both, daddy and mommy. My mommy use to say that I am, when i am running, fast as ostrich. So , ostrich and I run run equally fast.
2. My daddy says that baby chimpanzees belong to mother chimpanzee and father chimpanzee, and that mother and father chimpanzee belong to each other and to the baby chimpanzee and all three as a family belong to the family of chimpanzees. Ugh…My mommy says that chimpanzees belong to the ape family. I agree with both, mommy and daddy, although I do not understand daddy completely, and would like to add that chimpanzees belong to my favorite group of animals - primates.
3. My daddy says that Red-necked wallaby lives where other kangaroo’s live. My mommy says that they live in Australia. I agree with both, mommy and daddy. Although I would like that they live in Croatia.
4. I want to become a 4goZoo club member because I love animals, small, bigger ones and the biggest ones. I love crickets and ants and monkeys and all tiny and huge animals. And because I am at the zoo veeeeeeery often. I am sure you will remember me when you see me.
Thank you and hundreds of kisses, yours Stjepan.

Author: DUSTIN BOŽIĆ
1. Ostriches on average run about 65 km/h. At full speed they can run over 70 km/h.
2. Chimpanzees belong to the group of mammals.
3. The distribution of Red necked-wallaby includes Eastern Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand (in the fall).
4. My name is Dustin Božić, I am 11 years old and I live in Munich. I visit Croatia with my grandparents every three months. My grandfather is from Varaždin and I also have family in Zagreb which is why we are in Croatia so often. I have never been to Zagreb Zoo and would very much like to visit you with my aunt Sonja. My aunt and I wrote this poem. Enjoy!

(direct translation of poem that rhyme in Croatian language)
4goZoo club is the one
that teaches us about the lives of ants,
or how the fishes spawn,
and why some birds have crests.

Why do fish sail,
while dreaming sweet dreams,
and how fast can run,
ostriches hot feet.

When owls fly,
every child wants to know.
In spring there is little sleep,
opposite then in winter time.

In summer, the animals are lazy,
and in fall the fruit captures their attention.
4goZoo is the club that discovers new content
and that is the perfect reason that I should join the club as well.

Author: VITO KLOBUČAR
1. I looked at Wikipedia, I knew that the ostrich is a fast bird and that it has big eyes, but I had no idea that it can run 70 kilometres per hour. To be honest, I know that is fast but I cannot exactly picture how fast and what it would look like. However, I can imagine how heavy the ostrich is.
2. Apes belong to us? We are all primates, my grandfather says. I checked Wikipedia again, they are primates.
3. I had some more trouble with this one! I did not immediately realize that this is a kangaroo, a small one. Kangaroos, of course, live in Australia.
4. I love animals very much, all of them even ants and those gross worms and snails at the park. (I don't think they are gross but everybody else does). I love to observe them, they are always busy. All my life my grandmother calls me Vito, you wise owl(I used to wear glasses). I am not even afraid of dogs, even those terrifying ones never attack me.They always wag their tail. I am interested in everything about animals, summer is long, I am on summer break so I have a lot of free time.. My grandmother was writing this and I was telling her what to write. I know how to write but it would take a long time.

Once again, we would like to thank everybody for their participation and we hope to see you…

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