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Zoo Stories - Frogs! Polar Bears! Bats! Wolves!

A series of ten-minute mobile puppet shows developed in collaboration with the Detroit Zoo about the effects of climate change on animal populations around the world.

 
An outdoor performance rehearsal, with a large yellow frog costume and puppet operated by puppeteer James Abbott, beside a small puppet stage, operated by puppeteer Monty Etzcorn, that displays a habitat of frogs.
An outdoor performance rehearsal, with narrator Oliver Pookrum standing beside puppeteers Lindsay McCaw and Kristi Ternes as they operate a tabletop display, including a bare wooden tree and a gorilla puppet.
An outdoor performance rehearsal, depicting puppeteer Monty Etzcorn and a small tiger puppet on a rod, being operated from behind a mini performance stage with a backdrop of a tiger’s habitat.
A behind the scenes performance rehearsal of puppeteer and performer Oliver Pookrum, smiling and looking toward an intricate large-scale male peacock puppet.
An early performance and character sketch of an intricate male peacock puppet that has a center body which folds out into a living room set.
A behind the scenes performance rehearsal of puppeteer and performer Madelyn Porter, wearing a wolf costume, while posing and smiling.
A close-up of a pack of small wolf puppet cutouts, set on a table with a few decorative tree cutouts set in the background.
A live outdoor performance of Frogs, including performer James Abbott inside a yellow Frog costume and puppeteer Monty Etzcorn operating a small tabletop display of a frog’s habitat, being watched by an audience of children and adults at the Detroit
An indoor performance rehearsal of Polar Bears, with a puppeteer inside a large faux fur polar bear puppet costume, standing beside puppeteer Torri Ashford as she operates a tabletop display of a polar bear’s habitat.
A group of children outside at the Detroit Zoo, smiling and reaching toward a large polar bear puppet costume that is being operated from the inside by a puppeteer.
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