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Who We Are
Science North and Dynamic Earth, two world-renowned science centers, are located in Sudbury,
Ontario, Canada. In addition to entertaining and educating visitors on-site, we develop and sell
exhibits, multimedia productions, traveling exhibits, and large-format films for science centers,
museums, zoos, aquariums, visitor centers and corporate centers worldwide.
For more than two decades our team has been one of the world’s leading creators of award-winning,
high impact visitor experiences for people of all ages. By harnessing the creative strength of our
science communication experts, we create unparalleled experiences for your facilities.
We pride ourselves in being recognized leaders in our cutting-edge and unique approaches.
Wildlife Rescue is one of Science North’s six traveling exhibits. Our other traveling exhibits are:
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Creatures of the Abyss
WaterWorks: Soak up the Science
Ends of the Earth: from Polar Bears to Penguins
Diamonds
Arctic Adventure
Our Team
Science North has close to 100 full-time staff and 150 hourly/contract employees. By operating two of
Canada’s largest science centers and delivering numerous projects to our external client base,
we are able to tap into a treasure trove of knowledge, skills and operational expertise. Our creative and
innovative team is recognized for pushing the limit of what our imaginations can achieve.
We immerse ourselves in the details and stories of projects to create fun learning experiences for your
visitors. We are truly excited by each new project, and understand the importance of communicating
and connecting with visitors in a fun and interactive way.
Wildlife RESCUE
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Table of Contents
Exhibit Specifications ..........................1
Introduction to Wildlife Rescue ............2
Zone 1: Entrance Experience...............5
Zone 2: Species Recovery Center.......7
Zone 3: “Return to the Wild” Theater
and Exhibits........................................13
Zone 4:
Emergency Response Center............16
Zone 5 and 6:
Home Front and Exit..........................20
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Exhibit Specifications
LANGUAGE:
French & English (Canadian dictionary) or
English only (US dictionary) text panels
and AV media
NUMBER OF EXHIBITS:
32
AVERAGE VISIT DURATION:
1.5 to 2 Hours
SIZE:
6,000 sq ft (600 sq m)
*This exhibit can be expanded to
fit larger halls.
Minimum ceiling height: 9 feet (2.7 m)
RENTAL FEE:
$160,000 USD
Plus in-bound shipping
Three-month rental period
Introduction to Wildlife Rescue
Wildlife Rescue is a timely exhibit about real animals and the people who are dedicating their lives to
helping these animals survive.
Wildlife populations around the world are under enormous stress due to pollution, deforestation and
habitat encroachment. Many species are becoming endangered while others are on the brink of
extinction. Wildlife Rescue allows your visitors to explore the new science of ‘restoration biology’ and to
experience the exciting and innovative ways in which people globally are rehabilitating diverse wildlife
species. Wildlife Rescue focuses on the science and the efforts that are bringing hope to what was
once considered a hopeless situation.
Wildlife Rescue is an exhibit that involves visitors in compelling stories of animal rescue, the dedicated
people who are taking action, and the science that supports their efforts. This exhibit offers a high
degree of interactive visitor experiences and features great science. Exhibits and experiences
include mechanical interactives, multimedia exhibits, computer interactives, a video theater, large
full-scale graphic panels, specimens and replicas, and scientific tools used by rescuers.
This exhibit showcases interesting and unique species from around the world. Wildlife Rescue presents
topics and themes important to the health of animal habitats and the ecosystems of our planet. It will
impart the message that we, as individuals, can make a difference.
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS:
Educational Guide
Marketing Guide
Operations Guide
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The goals of the Wildlife Rescue exhibit are to:
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provide a rich, immersive experience that encourages visitors to explore the concepts of
restoration and biodiversity;
showcase the activities dedicated to the restoration of specific species, habitats and life
support systems;
improve visitors’ understanding of the featured species, and their specific behaviors and
adaptations; and
increase visitors’ understanding of how their actions and behaviors can impact the wildlife
and biodiversity on our planet.
The following are key messages of the Wildlife Rescue exhibit:
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There are many successful efforts to restore individual animals and entire species back
to their natural habitats.
People and science are making a difference.
Understanding the behaviors and adaptations of the animals is necessary for effective
restoration efforts.
Individuals can make a difference.
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4.0 Emergency
Response Center
5.0
Home Front
6.0
Exit
3.0
“Return to the Wild”
2.0
Species Recovery
Center
1.0
Entrance
Wildlife Rescue
Floor Layout Bubble Diagram
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Zone 1:
Entrance Experience
This area introduces the themes and content of the exhibit. Elements of exotic environments set the
scene and give visitors a glimpse of the zones that wait further in their journey of wildlife rescue.
A soundscape features sounds of the natural environment, animals, and the voices of people.
Through projected lighting effects, key words and images introduce the broad themes of biodiversity,
restoration and animal rehabilitation.
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Zone 1:
Entrance Experience
Exhibit Name
Key Elements
Visitor Experience
Wildlife Rescue
Title Sign
Exhibit title and funder recognition signs,
mounted on a wall covered with colorful
large-scale graphics
The title sign attracts people to the exhibit.
Large graphics showing silhouettes related to the
content of the exhibit suggest the general topics that
are presented within the exhibit.
Entrance Grove
Large-scale graphic background wall
The entrance grove introduces the themes of
wildlife rescue. Visitors have sightlines into the rest
of the exhibit, which creates an immersive
feeling and draws them in to explore.
Life-size silhouettes depicting people
helping animals
Stylized vegetation units
Projected lighting effects
Soundscape of sounds from nature and human
voices
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Zone 2:
Species Recovery Center
There are cases where the number of individuals of a particular species has become so low that
the species becomes endangered or even faces extinction. Often drastic measures must be taken
to overcome the threat. With the help of dedicated professionals and volunteers, successful captive
breeding programs have been put into place to capture the animals from the wild, breed and raise the
young, and ultimately release these endangered animals back into their natural habitats.
Visitors will come to understand the nature of these animals and the methods and techniques used by
their rescuers.
The iconic centerpiece of this exhibit area is a stunning, rotating globe flanked by two large
touchscreens. A second very large iconic piece is a stylized ultralight aircraft, complete with cockpit, broad wingspan and large projection screen for a multimedia experience about guiding young whooping cranes on their first migratory route. Visitors explore the stories of eight selected endangered
species from around the world at exhibit stations with mechanical and computer interactives, videos,
large colorful photographs and touchable models.
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Zone 2:
Species Recovery Center
Exhibit Name
Species Recovery
Around the World
Key Elements
Visitor Experience
Four-foot diameter rotating globe with animal
photos on a full-color satellite image of the Earth
Use the touchscreen to explore the stories of a
wide range of threatened and endangered animals.
Browse through photos, videos and text to learn
why each animal is threatened and what is being
done about it. Watch as the globe rotates to reveal
where on Earth the 30 featured species live.
Interactive computer program on two 42 inch
touchscreens: media includes videos, photographs and text about 30 species from every
continent except Antarctica
Great Lakes
Lake Sturgeon
Life-size touchable model of a lake sturgeon with
sensors that activate a video when visitors ‘milk’
the sturgeon
Video showing the main steps used in restoration
programs to re-populate sturgeon in the Great
Lakes
Graphics: full-color large photo of lake sturgeon
on acrylic panel; interpretive panels
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Rub the side of a life-size sturgeon model just as
scientists do to extract the eggs.
Your action activates a video showing the main
steps in captive breeding programs: capturing a
sturgeon, extracting the eggs, fertilizing the eggs,
rearing the young fish, and releasing them back to
the wild. Graphics explain that the sturgeon was
once over-harvested in the Great Lakes but is now
making a comeback.
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Zone 2:
Species Recovery Center
Exhibit Name
Deadly Fungus:
Panamanian
Golden Frog
Key Elements
Visitor Experience
Mechanical interactive: ‘microscope’ viewer
with micrographs of infected frog skin at three
different levels of magnification (100X to
1000X)
Look into a viewer and use the arrows to locate
the effects of chytrid fungus infection in the outer
layer of a frog’s skin. View videos that explain
why the disease caused by this fungus is one
of the biggest threats to amphibians around the
world, and why golden frogs raised in captivity
cannot be returned to the wild.
Life-size touchable model of the Panamanian
golden frog
Touchscreen with videos
Graphics: full-color large photo of golden
frog on acrylic panel; interpretive panels;
instructional panel
Giant Panda
Adaptations
Touchscreen interactive program:
“Be a Panda Matchmaker!”
Life-size touchable replicas of panda and black
bear skulls
Graphics: full-color large photo of giant
panda on acrylic panel; interpretive panels;
instructional panel
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Touch the model of the Panamanian golden frog
and read the graphic panels to learn about the
efforts to save this animal from extinction.
Use the touchscreen program to become
a “panda matchmaker.” Find out about the
techniques that scientists use to encourage
pandas to breed in captivity, and how important it
is to understand the role of scent communication
and proper nutrition in breeding.
Compare the features of a panda skull and
a black bear skull to learn about the special
adaptations of pandas for eating bamboo.
Bamboo is the primary source of food for giant
pandas, and they eat a lot of it - about 20
kilograms (40 pounds) a day!
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Compare Your Weight
to a Panda’s Weight
Key Elements
Visitor Experience
Weigh scale with LED lights on a custom
scale face indicating average weight ranges of
pandas at different stages of development. The
scale platform is large enough to accommodate
several people.
Step on a weigh scale with a special dial to
compare your weight to that of a panda at
different stages of development. See how many
people it takes to equal the weight of an adult
male panda, or the weight of a female panda and
her cub. Panda cubs in captivity are examined
and weighed regularly to make sure they are
growing and developing at a healthy rate.
Graphics: life-size silhouettes of pandas at
various ages; interpretive panel; instructional
panel
Tracking the
Iberian Lynx
Replicas of scat from three species: Iberian
lynx, European rabbit (its prey), and red fox
(which competes with the lynx for food).
The replicas are on top of ‘lift and drop’ panels
3D replica of a trackway with footprints of the
Iberian lynx, rabbit and red fox
Touchscreen interactive about camera traps as
an important scientific tool, with photographs of
animals obtained from camera traps
Graphics: full-color large photo of the Iberian
lynx on acrylic panel; interpretive panels;
instructional panel
A Day in
the Life of a
Black-Footed Ferret
Mechanical interactive: representation of a
prairie dog burrow with tracks to five chambers
(light boxes); sliding disc with ferret image
Graphics: full-color large photo of blackfooted ferret on an acrylic panel; interpretive
panel; instructional panel; large-scale diagram
about the prairie ecosystem that depicts the
importance of prairie dogs to the survival of
many species
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Species Recovery Center
Examine the droppings to identify the one left
by the Iberian lynx. Lift up the scat to see if
you picked the lynx droppings, and learn that
scientists analyze DNA in lynx scat to learn more
about the populations of this endangered feline.
Feel the tracks of the Iberian lynx and other
animals living in the same area. Graphics explain
that the Iberian lynx is difficult to observe in the
wild because it is a solitary and elusive animal.
To learn about the species, researchers in the
field look for its tracks and droppings and use
camera traps to capture photographs of the
animals when they set off a sensor.
Move the ferret disc along the track to explore
the prairie dog burrow. Discover that some
chambers contain food, predators, or other
burrowing animals and some nothing at all.
Learn about the black-footed ferret’s behavior
and adaptations, why they must be released
back to the wild near prairie dog colonies, and
how prairie dogs provide both food and shelter,
making them essential to the survival of the
ferret.
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Zone 2:
Species Recovery Center
Exhibit Name
Be an
American
Burying Beetle
Key Elements
Visitor Experience
Mechanical interactive: model mouse carcass
in sand that is buried when visitors turn a
handcrank
Turn the crank to see the first step that American
burying beetles take to prepare a home for
their larvae. Watch as the mouse carcass sinks
deeper into the sand until it is completely buried,
out of sight of other scavengers. Then watch a
fascinating narrated video showing real beetles
burying a dead mouse and preparing the carcass
to be a home for their young. The feeding and
care of their larvae is also shown.
Touchscreen with narrated video showing how
real beetles bury a dead animal and prepare it
for their larvae
Life-size model of an American burying beetle
Graphics: full-color large photo of the American
burying beetle on acrylic panel; interpretive
panels; instructional panel
Fostering
Chatham Island
Black Robin Eggs
Mechanical interactive: replica black robin nest
and egg; replicas of nests and eggs of three
other species with electronic sensors
Graphics: full-color large photo of the Chatham
Island black robin on acrylic panel; interpretive
panels; instructional panel
Check out model nests, eggs and life-size
images of each bird to determine which bird
species would make the best ‘foster parent’ to
incubate black robin eggs. Lift the egg from the
black robin’s nest and place it in one of the other
three nests, using features such as a bird’s size,
nest materials and the appearance of the egg as
clues for choosing the best foster parent.
Learn that by 1980, only five Chatham Island
black robins were left in the wild, including
the last breeding female named “Old Blue”.
A successful innovative program involved
breeding “Old Blue” and a male robin, placing
the eggs in the nest of another common bird
species to incubate and hatch. Today more than
250 of their descendants live in the wild.
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Feed the Chicks:
California Condor
Key Elements
Visitor Experience
Mechanical interactive with computer
program: models of chicks and condor parent
hand puppets; feeding mechanism; buttons
Place your hand in the adult condor puppet and
feed your chick as many pellets as you can in
a pre-determined amount of time. Pick up the
food with the puppet and drop it into the mouth
of your hungry mechanical chick as it opens and
closes its mouth. Once the time is expired, results
indicate how much you were able to feed your
chick.
Graphics: full-color large photo of California
condor on an acrylic panel; interpretive panel
and instructional panels
Zone 2:
Species Recovery Center
The California condor is one of the most
endangered birds in North America. This exhibit
demonstrates the challenges of rearing these
types of birds in captivity and the techniques used
to avoid imprinting them on humans.
Fly with the
Whooping Cranes
Ultralight structure: multimedia interactive with
video, in a stylized ultralight aircraft with cockpit
seating, 26-foot wingspan, 6-foot diameter
propeller, wind effects, large projection screen,
buttons, cockpit graphics
Touchscreen video: Joe Duff introduces the
ultralight experience
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Sit in the ultralight aircraft and embark on a
simulated flight to direct the whooping cranes
along their first migration route. Choose to watch
the flight from several different camera views.
Listen as the pilot tells you about the journey the route, how far it is and how long it takes - and
why the young birds must be guided in this way.
This exhibit highlights the challenge of releasing
captive-bred whooping cranes into the wild, and
the special techniques that are helping to restore
this endangered bird.
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Zone 3:
“Return to the Wild” Theater
and Exhibits
This zone features the compelling stories of people who are dedicating
their lives to saving individual animals and ultimately an entire species.
Two species that are quite different from each other, orphaned
elephants and orphaned orangutans, are examples of long-term
commitments and of forged relationships between their rescuers and
the individual animals. In both cases, human rescuers dedicate years
of care and rearing – often a decade or more – to ultimately create
opportunities where that animal can be released back into the wild.
A video theater that takes visitors to orphanages for elephants and orangutans anchors the experience
in this area. The work of two women is highlighted: Dame Daphne Sheldrick cares for orphan African
elephants in Kenya, and primatologist and conservationist Dr. Biruté Galdikas works to rehabilitate
orphaned orangutans back to the wild in Borneo, Indonesia.
Visitors can learn more about orangutans and elephants at exhibit stations outside the theater. These
exhibits indicate that caregivers need to understand the natural adaptations and behaviors of the
animals in order to provide appropriate care to them.
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Zone 3:
“Return to the Wild” Theater
and Exhibits
Exhibit Name
“Return to the Wild”
Video Theater
Key Elements
Visitor Experience
Video presentation on projection screen;
bench-style seating; push-button start
Relax in the “Return to the Wild” Theater and
enjoy an eight-minute show that takes you to an
orangutan orphanage in Borneo and an African
elephant sanctuary in Kenya. ‘Meet’ young
orphaned animals and the people who work with
them. Learn how caring for these animals involves
a lot more than just meeting their physical needs –
developing a strong bond between the caregivers
and the animals is the key to success.
LED countdown display
Orangutan Station:
Grip Strength
Mechanical interactive: three grip testers
(dynamometers), LED read-out display and
unique graphic scale showing ranges for humans
and orangutan grip strengths
Graphics: interpretive panel
Orangutan Station:
Facial Recognition:
Who’s Who?
Touch interactive: twelve orangutan photo
cutouts with embedded touch sensors,
three round and nine square; lights to indicate
correct/incorrect choices
Graphics: interpretive panel
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Squeeze a dynamometer to compare your grip
strength with an orangutan’s strength on a LED
scale. Encourage your friends to use the other
two dynamometers, to see if the power of three
people can come even close to the strength of an
orangutan. Graphics explain the importance of grip
strength to the survival of the orangutans.
Match facial images of orangutans by touching
different blocks to find the match. This exhibit
illustrates that orangutans have the ability to
recognize each other by using visual cues,
as do humans.
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Zone 3:
“Return to the Wild” Theater
and Exhibits
Exhibit Name
Key Elements
Visitor Experience
African Elephant
Station:
Elephant Behavior
Multi-player computer quiz with video:
“Keep Your Eyes on the Elephants!”
Participate in a multi-player quiz and learn how
elephants use their intelligence to communicate
effectively with each other. Watch video clips of
elephants using visual communication such as
trunk curl and head shake, and answer questions
to identify the behavior or emotion expressed in
each clip.
African Elephant
Station:
The Amazing Trunk
Mechanical interactive: two units with elephant
trunk puppets and foam blocks enclosed in
acrylic, one at child height and one at adult
height
Insert your arm into a replica elephant trunk
and simulate the movements of a real trunk.
Squeeze the end to perform a series of tasks
and compare your actions to videos of elephants
using their trunks in a variety of ways.
Video: looping footage of elephants using their
trunks
Graphics: instructional panel
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The exhibit demonstrates the mechanics behind
the movement of an elephant’s trunk and
explains that baby elephants must learn how to
properly use their trunks.
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Zone 4: Emergency Response Center
The Emergency Response area presents stories of disasters that affect wildlife and our modes of
response to them. These kinds of situations require human intervention to ensure an animal’s survival.
The goal is to properly diagnose, treat and rehabilitate the injured or ill animal so it can be released
back to the wild.
A turtle’s shell is damaged by a car while it’s crossing a road; a bobcat has a dislocated hip. Across
North America, individuals and groups have established local wildlife centers with the goal of helping
injured and ill animals. Concerned citizens bring injured animals to these rehabilitation centers to be
cared for by trained professional staff and volunteers. In this exhibit area, visitors use the tools and
techniques of veterinary medicine to learn how wild animals are diagnosed and treated. They operate
an x-ray machine and diagnose the injury, measure the heart rate of mammals, suture a turtle shell,
and watch videos of innovative surgery techniques.
At the First Response Station, visitors encounter three different scenarios that require their immediate
help and attention: an oil spill, a flood and a forest fire. Through a multi-player quiz, they take on the
role of the emergency responder to decide how to deploy volunteers and supplies to the scene of the
disaster. At the Seabird Rescue Station, they delve deeper into the science related to the effects of oil
spills on wildlife, and learn how oil-covered birds are being successfully rehabilitated.
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Zone 4: Emergency Response Center
Exhibit Name
First Response
Station
Key Elements
Visitor Experience
Multi-player computer quiz with video:
“Join the First Response Team!”
Join the Rapid Response Team and test your
knowledge about how organizations and
individuals can respond to disasters such as oil
spills, floods and forest fires. Answer questions
about the actions you would take when faced
with different scenarios, and learn how to best
mobilize resources to save wildlife in emergency
situations.
Large-scale photo mural that depicts wildlife
rescue during natural disasters
Seabird
Rescue Station:
How Oil
Impacts Birds
Mechanical interactive: two units with push
handles, one with normal feathers and red LED
light, the other with oil-covered feathers and blue
LED light
Magnifier unit: magnifying slider with
four feathers, two healthy feathers and two oilcovered
Large-scale wall photo: oil-covered pelican being
rehabilitated
Graphics: interpretive panels; instructional panels
Seabird
Rescue Station:
Oil Spills and Wildlife
Computer interactive with touchable objects:
monitor; array of five objects representing
different stages of rehabilitating oiled seabirds
with electronic sensors; buttons
Child-height replica sink, with model bird and
scrub brush
Graphics: interpretive panel; instructional panels
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Operate two mechanic devices that simulate
the contraction of a bird’s abdominal muscles.
See how the healthy feathers rise to create air
pockets that insulate the bird, keeping it warm,
while the oil-covered feathers do not.
Slide the magnifier and examine healthy and
oil-covered bird feathers to identify the effects
of oil on feathers. Healthy feathers create air
pockets that insulate the bird. When feathers
are coated with oil, they no longer insulate the
bird, resulting in heat loss and hypothermia.
Take on the role of a member of the oil spill
rescue team, touching objects on the display that
represent the five main steps in rehabilitating an
oil-covered bird. Can you determine the correct
sequence of steps? The computer interactive
provides feedback on your choice, and when
you’ve selected the correct object, a video plays
of rescuers in action.
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Exhibit Name
Turtle Rehabilitation
Key Elements
Visitor Experience
Life-size replica turtle, with a piece of the shell
that moves and can be reattached with string
Suture together an injured turtle shell using the
tools provided and then examine a turtle skeleton
to learn more about its anatomy. Lift panels to
reveal hidden photos showing how four species of
turtles use their shells to protect themselves from
injury.
Lift and drop panels: four turtle species showing
defense mechanisms
Turtle skeleton in acrylic case
Digital photo frame: images of turtle
rehabilitation techniques
Graphics: interpretive panels; instructional
panels
Operating Table
Touchscreen with video
Wall mural: life-size illustration of a
veterinarian’s office
Graphics: interpretive panels; instructional
panel
Heartbeat
Diagnostics Station
Mechanical interactive: “stethoscope” sensor,
cutouts of four mammals, speaker for audio
feedback, “digital readout” of heart rates
Human heart rate monitor with digital readout
Graphics: interpretive panels; instructional
panels
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Zone 4: Emergency Response Center
Learn that a turtle should be brought to a wildlife
rehabilitation center when it suffers injuries. The
survival rate of properly treated turtles can be as
high as 80%. Trained rehabilitators can repair a
broken turtle shell using everyday items such as
tie wraps, safety pins and fishing line to hold the
shell together while it heals.
Choose from narrated videos of surgery on four
different wild species, and watch fascinating
footage of ‘keyhole surgery’. In this innovative
type of operation, a special tool is used: a long
thin telescope with a camera at its end called
an endoscope. This allows the veterinarian to
see inside an animal’s body without the animal
undergoing a major invasive surgical procedure.
Use a “stethoscope” to find and listen to the
heartbeats of four mammals, and determine the
normal heart rate for each animal. Use a human
heart monitor to measure your own heart rate and
compare it to the other mammals’ rates. Learn
that measuring the heart rate of a wounded
animal is a diagnostic tool commonly used by
professionals in the field.
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Zone 4: Emergency Response Center
Exhibit Name
X-Ray Station
Key Elements
Visitor Experience
Mechanical interactive: two “x-ray machines”,
one at child height and one at adult height;
six life-size animal cutouts; six x-rays in
lightboxes mounted on wall
Slide the x-ray machine over cutouts of wild
animals. When the machine is positioned
correctly over an animal, the corresponding x-ray
lights up for you to observe the injury sustained
by that animal. X-rays are an important diagnostic
tool in treating injured wildlife.
Graphics: instructional panel
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Zones 5 and 6:
Home Front and Exit
Visitors discover that our everyday actions can have an impact on wildlife in our own “backyard” and
ultimately on the biodiversity of our Earth. They spin rotating puzzle blocks to create images of the
different components of the biosphere – the habitats, the animals, and our entire planet – to understand
the significance of biodiversity. They learn that they can have an impact of the biodiversity on Earth,
and in turn, that biodiversity has an impact on them.
Visitors can commit to carrying through with specific actions in their everyday life by registering their
“vote” at the What Will I Do? exhibit. They also learn how their choice for a pet can affect wildlife.
People adopt exotic pets without fully understanding the specialized needs of these animals or the
commitment involved. When they are no longer wanted, these animals cannot be released back into
the wild and alternatives for their care are required.
This exhibit area includes a customizable bulletin board where host venues can post brochures,
notices and other materials about local efforts related to wildlife rescue.
The exit area is the concluding experience for the exhibit. Bird-shaped mirrors on a large full-color
mural encourage visitors to “put themselves in the picture”. A large monitor presents video of animals
being successfully released into the wild and a departing message of hope.
Visitors will leave the exhibit feeling empowered, knowing that they can make a difference.
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Zones 5 and 6: Home Front and Exit
Exhibit Name
What Can I Do?
Key Elements
Visitor Experience
Touchscreen interactive with video
Watch a short video message that provides some
tips about how you can get involved. Browse
through information about various organizations
that promote conservation and protect
endangered species. Choose from several video
clips of a scientist who conveys why he is so
passionate about conservation, biodiversity and
restoring wildlife.
Customizable bulletin board
What Will I Do?
Mechanical interactive: six wall segments,
each with a large-scale photo, digital read-out,
and large push button
Graphics: instructional panel
What About
Exotic Pets?
Life Expectancy
Mechanical interactive: four sliders, each with
an animal photo as the handle; scale showing
lifespan in years
Graphics: interpretive panels; instructional panel
What About
Exotic Pets?
Making a
Good Pet Choice
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Touchscreen interactive:
“What About Exotic Animals as Pets?”
Graphics: interpretive panels
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Press a button to indicate your commitment to
take action to help wildlife, such as reducing
your garbage by composting, planting
trees in your backyard, volunteering with a
local environmental group or supporting an
international organization that is helping wildlife.
LED digital displays track the total number of
“votes” for each action.
Move the sliders to reveal how many years a
red-eared slider, boa constrictor, macaw and
chimpanzee can live. Graphics explain that
thousands of exotic pets are abandoned by their
owners every year in North America because they
didn’t understand the long lifespan and challenges
these animals present. A growing number of
sanctuaries are being established to care for
animals that have nowhere else to go.
Input data into this computer interactive to learn
that many factors should be considered when
choosing a pet, including the difficulty of providing
for the special needs of wild species and the
negative impact of the exotic pet trade on wild
populations.
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Exhibit Name
Turtle Crawl
Key Elements
Visitor Experience
Crawl-through tunnel: replica road culvert with
motion sensor and speakers playing road
sounds; two cartoon car-cutouts;
“turtle crossing” road sign; two holders for turtle
shell costumes
Put on a replica turtle shell and become a turtle!
Crawl through the turtle tunnel, hear the vehicles
passing overhead and see how wildlife crossings
allow turtles and other animals to safely cross
busy roadways. Graphics explain how wildlife
underpasses and overpasses connect vital
habitats and help to prevent wild populations
from becoming isolated from each other.
Large-scale wall mural: illustration of road with
plants and animals
Zones 5 and 6: Home Front and Exit
Graphics: interpretive panel, instructional panel
Biodiversity Puzzle
Mechanical puzzle: sixteen triangular prism
blocks that rotate on metal posts
Graphics: screen with interpretive panel about
biodiversity and representative images of
wildlife; instructional panel
Exit Experience Animals Back
to the Wild
Video: short video depicting rescue efforts,
animals and people from throughout the exhibit,
and successful releases of animals back to the
wild; motion sensor
Wall mural: colorful large-scale graphics on
large background wall, with animal-shaped
mirrors
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Spin the puzzle blocks to create images of
four habitats and the animals that live in them.
Spin again to create an image of the entire
Earth! This exhibit provides an introduction to
what biodiversity is and its significance. We
should care about these environments and the
animals, and take action, because by maintaining
biodiversity we preserve life on Earth and all its
aspects. Ultimately, our survival depends on it.
Pause to watch the short video and feel uplifted
by its positive images and messages, which
create a sense of hope for the future. See your
own image in the embedded mirrors, and realize
that you have a role to play in the story of wildlife
rescue.
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Contact
Julie Moskalyk
International Sales Manager
705.522.3701 ext. 228
[email protected]
100 Ramsey Lake Road,
Sudbury Ontario, Canada P3E 5S9
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