CrookLab octopuses visit a local daycare center
Little hands and gentle touches!
Lots of fun today as some of the lab’s retired octopuses visited a local daycare center, to provide an early childhood education experience for the children and staff. Children were able to observe the octopuses up close while the octopuses moved about in shallow tubs that provided shelters and hiding spaces. Whenever we do outreach activities like this we work hard to ensure that the animals’ welfare needs are balanced against the goals of an up-close-and-personal interaction for the children. This visit was a great success!