Take over at the zoo Utsunomiya January 2 19:50
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At the zoo in Utsunomiya City, an event to take over the zoo was held.
Every year at Utsunomiya Zoo in Utsunomiya City, events are held with new and old animal species and local elementary school students born in each species.
The handover is a mouse from a boar, but in order to combat the infectious disease of pigs, the CSF, the so-called swine cholera, a staff member appeared in a costume instead of a pig that was scheduled to appear as a boar. In addition, the role of the mouse was a guinea pig with a body length of about 20 cm, and 10 elementary school students gathered on the stage together.
First of all, the elementary school students presented their essays reflecting on the past year, including their hard work in sports, and then the elementary school children gave a flower necklace to the rodent elementary school students.
Then, the primary schoolchildren of the mouse year announced that they would like to work hard for the past year, such as "I want to overcome my weak study subjects." Finally, a commemorative photo was taken with guinea pigs and costumes.
A girl born in the year of the rat who participated in the event said, "I think that the quickest part is similar to the mouse. I play basketball, so I want to take a year to try difficult skills."
Kenji Arai, the zoo director, said, "I have forgotten the appearance of pigs, but I want children to learn a variety of things while interacting with animals."