Seeing at my Chaffee Zoo was a very interesting experience. After the snack after the bird show, we all went to find our animals. There were three different animals in out group, and two were at the reptile house, so we went there first. My animal is a blue duiker; kind of like a small antelope, so it obviously was not at the reptile house. Unfortunately, after we went to the reptile house, the blue duiker enclosure was on the opposite end of the zoo. We walked across the zoo, using stations as our reference points. 

When we got to the corner, saw a duck exhibit. Looking at the map, we realized we needed to walk across a small footbridge. At the blue duiker enclosure, all we apparently saw were the tortoises it was supposed to share the exhibit with. Then one of our group members saw it behind a bush. That makes sense, because blue duikers' main defense against predators is their ability to quickly disappear into the bushes when frightened. Seeing the duiker was a shock. All of the images we worked with gave an impression 3 or 4 times too large! The blue duiker is supposed to be the world's smallest antelope, and now my group and I understand why.



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