Mini-Zoo
Students design a mini-zoo on campus each year. The opening of the program’s eighth mini-zoo, “Safari Canisius: a celebration of African wildlife,” took place in November of 2011. Naturalistic exhibits constructed by Canisius College students display nine species on loan from The Buffalo Zoo, including the black and white ruffled lemur, serval, African crested porcupine, rock hyrax, ring-necked dove, African cichlid fish, pancake tortoise, sand boa and the Egyptian spiny-tailed lizard. Their habitats were designed by students in the Canisius College Zoo Biology Program, under the guidance of Susan Margulis, PhD, assistant professor of Biology and Animal Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation.
Vance Reeds '13, Animal Behavior, Ecology & Conservation major, talks about the opportunities to learn outside the classroom that are available to students in the ABEC program.
