Living Coasts’ popular Golden Egg Hunt will be running from 10th to 13th April.
Find a golden egg to win the chance to help the keepers during an animal feed. There will also be some chocolate prizes for those who find a silver egg.
Over the Easter holidays there will be activities including the penguin song discovery trail, Coastal Courtship talks and mask making. New mascot Mac the Penguin will be out and about to meet and greet people and pose for photos.
Visitors will also be able to investigate the intriguing world of animal behaviour. There will be short behavioural ecology talks after the penguin feeds at 10:30 and 2:30. These will help visitors to complete free worksheets looking at animal behaviour around the site during the courting period.
In addition, a new exhibit will be opening over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend. Coasts at Risk, at the end of the underwater seal tunnel before the Discovery Zone, explores the threats to marine ecosystems around the world. Themed as the work station of a marine biologist, this exhibit offers visitors the chance to immerse themselves in the fascinating world of marine research and conservation.
In the work station there will be a number of marine artefacts and interesting objects to handle, microscopes to use and exciting experiments to carry out. To celebrate the opening of this exhibit, Living Coasts’ resident scientist will be on hand to answer questions and run activities.
Easter bunnies invade Living Coasts
The Easter bunny is coming to Living Coasts. In fact there will be a whole heap of rabbits – all in search of loving homes.
The rabbits are coming from Blueberry Warren, a self-funded animal sanctuary near Chudleigh that takes in and re-homes pet rabbits. Visitors will be able to meet the rabbits at the Living Coasts front entrance and talk to animal experts about keeping and caring for pet rabbits.
Living Coasts Events Coordinator Kate Hall said: “The aim is to provide some Easter fun for visitors while highlighting the fact that there are many rabbits in need of good homes.” The rabbits will be at Living Coasts from 10th April through to the 13th between 11:00am and 3:00pm.
Living Coasts Events Coordinator Kate Hall said: “Easter means bunnies, but rabbits are also important to our coastal ecosystems and feature in many Local Biodiversity Action Plans. Rabbits graze on vegetation, keeping down rough grass and scrub and disturbing the soil to provide niches for other plants and animals. Their droppings help fertilise plants. So the rabbit is not a pest but a key part of a complex habitat.”
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