A Day in Tycross Zoo

Wildestic Animals in Twycross Zoo

I am very shocked that I gained so much attention from all the animals I saw in the zoo and Zebra was one of them.

As I was creating Zerbra stencils and spraying their geometric body strips around college and my art pieces. I took the stencil with me to the zoo. I pinched the stencil out of my backpack and used it as a lens to record the Zebra’s of the zoo. For some reason all of the four zebras gathered in front of the zebra stencil which I have recorded with my mobile phone.

Personal interaction with Wildestic animals in Twycross zoo

Today 23rd March 2015 in Twycross Zoo I have emotionally engaged with wildestic animals. I strongly believe I can have Leopards get off their back and move towards me. I learnt to get their full attention. I had always known to treat them with the right respect and act as I am one of them. I hid body and only showed my eyes and forehead looking straight into the eyes of the predator and move sideways locking my eyes on theirs. Always hiding the rest of the body, head really low almost parallel to their eyes. By doing so, the leopard are suspicious and come straight to the Leopard whisperer.

I saw a father, a mother and two cubs; male and female. The father was separated from the rest as it is known in the wild father attacking his young when extremely hungry. It was a sight to see the father walking up and down right at the other side of the cage looking at his family. This showed that he wanted to be physically in contact with them. I really love the art of Leopard’s body. I heard people talking about how “beautiful” they were in the zoo.

I had done research on endangered animals about a month ago and I note Amur Leopard on my blog. Fascinatingly, I engaged with the species on my day in Twycross Zoo, by acknowledging this resonance of me and my favourite animal I have composed a video of the Amur Leopard.

Geometrical rosettes on Leopard

Hyena was very territorial even in the locked up area. As I approached the hyena area, the hyena ran in circles, round and round without taking any breaks.

Striped hyenas amused me because of their stripes which I did not expect to appear on hyenas.

Flamingos

I came across a wall which had a very similar body marks as of giraffe's. Giraffe was one of the head animals of my study but unfortunately they weren't in the zoo at the time. Perhaps they arrive a week after my visit to the zoo.

A video for my A2 Art Exam preparation as I am studying "Geometry" deeply concerned of critically endangered animals with geometrical body spots/patterns/marks.

In this video I have experimented using a stencil of a giraffe with its body patterns cut out to create a vista to display the giraffe's habitat. 

A giraffe and its natural habitat look alike which I recorded in a bus on my journey to Twycross zoo, in Leicestershire, UK . 

Although giraffes are not threatened by extinction, the giraffe population is less than 80,000 and decreasing therefore I have planned on using various of different platforms and channels including Blog, Instagram and Youtube to create awareness of such beautiful wild animals.

Producing and editing long videos can be significant therefore for the video above I have done so.

Below is a screen video capture while I have edited the video of my giraffe experiment.