Jason Maloney, 4, of Cape Fair, smiles as he gets up close and personal with a milk snake during Eagle Rock Branch Library’s Summer Reading Program event on July 16, a presentation from Dickerson Park Zoo. Kyle Troutman/ ktroutman@ cassville-democrat. com
Donna Mueller, volunteer educator with Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield, shows a lizard to interested attendees at the Eagle Rock Branch Library’s Summer Reading Program event on July 16. The program’s theme, “Color Your World,” led Zoo presenters to craft a program based on how animals’ colors can be used in the wild. Kyle Troutman/ktrout-man@ cassville-democrat. comJamie Williams, education specialist with Dickerson Park Zoo, notes how tigers’ orange and black pattern may not seem like camouflage to the human eye, the animal’s main prey is deer, which cannot see orange. Kyle Troutman/ ktroutman@ cassville-democrat. comJamie Williams, education specialist with Dickerson Park Zoo, holds a cockatoo during the Zoo’s “Color Your World” presentation at the Eagle Rock Branch Library on July 16. Kyle Troutman/ ktroutman@ cassville-democrat. com
