By:Xu
Yiran | From:english.eastday.com | 2019-01-09 09:39
How long
does it take for a chicken to break its shell? How many times a second do
different kinds of birds flap their wings to fly? What is the reed parrotbills’
favorite food?
Answers
to all these questions can be found in the "Magic Bird Camp"
exhibition, which opened on January 5. Interestingly, this exhibition, planned
by the Shanghai Natural History Museum (a branch of the Shanghai Science and
Technology Museum) for children aged 3-8, is not located in a popular science
venue, but has been moved to a business district in Pudong.
The whole
camp covers about 200 square meters, consisting of four thematic exhibition
halls that resemble yurts, and an educational activity area. Visitors can
experience the “appearance, food, shelter and mobility” of birds in an
immersive environment. In the Masquerade exhibition area, audiences can design
appearances for the red and green macaws and the great bird of paradise, or
wear cloaks and bird-like hats to play at being a bird. At the dining table in
the Bird Restaurant exhibition area, "guests" such as whale storks
and white spoonbills have been seated, waiting for audiences to serve them
appropriate delicacies. The most popular part of the exhibition is the
artificial incubator in the Experimental Site exhibition area. Rows of eggs and
several fluffy chickens vividly show which comes first between the chicken and
the egg. Also, audiences can intuitively know the humidity, temperature, time
and other conditions required for bird hatching.
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