Family Sunday Planned at Bishop Museum March 16
Animal Grossology Academy Offered on Weekends through April 20
Grab mom and pop…and tutu, too, and head to Bishop Museum’s Family Sunday set for March 16 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. This family-friendly event will feature Animal Grossology, the interactive exhibition that takes a slightly different view of Fluffy, Fido, and the rest of the animal kingdom. Other activities on campus that day include games and rides and food booths. Museum admission is reduced on Family Sunday to $3 per person for Hawaii residents with proof of residency and active and retired Military and their families with ID.
Created and produced by Advanced Exhibits, a division of Advanced Animations L.L.C., Animal Grossology takes solid scientific information and incorporates it into a fun and entertaining learning opportunity for kids and adults. Prepare to meet frogs that give birth by belching. You may think leeches are pretty disgusting, but did you know that they’re used after some surgeries to assist in the healing process?
Museum visitors will experience some of the slimiest, stinkiest, and downright yuckiest creatures on earth. For instance, learn why the dung beetle is considered nature’s original pooper scooper, and why cows chew cud, and why snail and slug slime might provide scientists with more insight into treating cystic fibrosis. Inquiring young minds want to know these peculiar and fascinating things!
Kids can play Transfusion Confusion and discover which animals have what color blood. Animal Grossology follows in the footsteps of the highly acclaimed and very kid-popular exhibition, Grossology, which focused on the impolite science of the human body. Bugs belch, too! Did you know honey is bee barf?
Take a scientific look at nature’s blood-sucking, vomit-munching, slime-making, and dookie-loving creatures and come away with a whole new appreciation for the animal kingdom! Visitors will even learn a few safety tips about avoiding West Nile Virus, Lyme’s Disease, and what to do if a jellyfish stings!
In addition to Family Sunday, Bishop Museum has added a new weekend demonstration activity in the Animal Grossology exhibit. On Saturdays and Sundays at 12:30 p.m. throughout the run of Animal Grossology, February 9 through April 20, 2008, kids may join a Bishop Museum educator for CSI Animal Grossology Academy: Case File R2D2. The twenty-minute activity will help solve the problem of who killed Darwin Dog! The mysterious death of Darwin Dog will be examined using clues from the crime scene. Strange slime, broken furniture, and no witnesses add to the mystery. Crime scene investigators will go through a series of suspects to help solve the case with the help of activity participants.
The popular exhibit series is based on the GROSSOLOGY series of books by author Sylvia Branzei, published through Price Stern Sloan, a member of Penguin (USA) Inc. In Honolulu, the exhibit is sponsored in part by Horizon Lines and Seven-Eleven Hawai’i Inc. For more information about Animal Grossolog, Family Sunday or CSI Animal Grossology Academy, call (808) 847-3511 or visit www.bishopmuseum.org.
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