Just watch the miscreants. Chances are good that they'll be teasing animals that may or may not have an opportunity to eat them...

Zoos are incredibly fun, and are always educational. This is a great place to take a group of students, but make sure you don't lose any to the carnivores.

I went to the zoo in my first school field trip back in 1st grade and loved every minute of it! It was one of the few field trips I ever took in school.

Going to the zoo with some of the people I went with, it was hard to tell which were the animals, and which were the classmates. No wonder they're starting to train monkeys to do everything. They'll probably survive longer then some of the stupid people I know.

zoos were great field trips

great, everybody learns lots from the zoo.

I love zoos. But when they're school field trips, the fun factor dies down a bit, since you have to travel around the zoo en mass with 50 other people. Can't explore, have to fight to get to the window to look at anything.

I rather go without having to stay in a group. All they wanted to see were the monkeys. I always wanted to stay and watch the mountain lions.Beautiful creatures.