A day in the Zoo ; School children had an unique opportunity to date with the wild animals and named the rescued hand reared leopard cub as a part of the Zoo education programme and celebration of the Wild life Week 2006 in Nandankanan zoo on 8 th October 2006. Under the zoo education programme, Nandankanan Zoological Park, in collaboration with the Nature and Wildlife Conservation Society, Orissa, celebrated the wildlife week, 2006 on 8 th October 2006. It was an exclusive awareness programme for the school children titled “A Day in the Zoo”. 32 school children from different school accompanied by their teachers spend a whole day in the zoo and were exposed to the finer details of the day to day management of the zoo. The students would get a unique opportunity to visit the food distribution center where everyday more than 90 varieties of food items are procured screened and sent to different animal enclosures. At the same time they also visited the zoo kitchen and learnt about the very special exclusive recipes cooked everyday by the zoo chefs for the choosy animals like bear and chimps. They interacted with the zoo vets learnt from them about heath care of the zoo animals in the Zoo hospital, about the routine care of the animals like vaccination schedule, de-worming and various interesting facts about the critical operation carried out in the zoo to save the life of the animals. They also heard to the animal keepers to learn the exciting untold stories about the animals how they communicate with animals, how they behave with each other. About their parentage and when they are born etc. The students were than conducted by the volunteers and were explained in great details about the various animals. After which the students participated in an open quizzed by Mr A.K.Mishra Asst. Director Nandankanan Zoological Park and Mr. Michel from WWF India Orissa office. The quiz was conductThe smart ones received exciting prizes. Eminent experts like Professor S.K. Dutta, a renowned herpetologist from North Orissa University, Dr L.N,Acharjyo , the eminent Zoo vet., Dr A.K.Patnaik, Director Nandankanan Zoo, Mr A.C. Dinakar ,Deputy Director , Interacted with the students and the Zoo vets of Nandankanan Zoological Park briefed the students on various interesting facts about the animals.