Student Questions at Base Camp Discovery Anonymous Student Asks: What is the biggest animal at the Zoo. This is a tricky question depending on what you mean by the biggest. The heaviest animal that we have at the Zoo is Tuffy, our bull African Elephant. Tuffy is approximately ten feet tall at the shoulder and [...]
Read More »From the Base Camp Discovery Mail Box: Natalie asks: What do plants eat? Most plants make their own food! Using the energy from sunlight captured by special cells in their leaves and sometimes their stems, plants can combine carbon dioxide and water to make sugar! They use the energy stored in this sugar to breath [...]
Read More »Here is a small sampling of the artwork done by visiting students at the Base Camp Discovery Education Center. The art work is placed in the specially designed Base Camp Discovery Mailbox and then displayed on the Base Camp Discovery bulletin board for a few days. Some select pictures will be featured in the Maryland [...]
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