Well it wasn't just the usual ostriches and leopards hanging out in the Staten Island Zoo, Sunday.
There were paper frogs, paper bears and painted fish at a Gyotaku and Origami workshop.
Gyotaku is an ancient version of Japanese fish printing which was used to keep records.
So, both kids and adults were treated to a special lesson in origami making that included creating elephants and monkeys.
.Claire Aniela Arthurs runs the program and says,
"In the origami, we have some more abstract shapes that we're making. There's a lot of triangles, squares and rectangles that are being used to depict animal life. With the fish print, you're having a full print of the actual fish. So you can see every single fin, every single scale, the entire anatomy.
The special origami and Guy-ooh-tah-koo printing workshop is part of the "Cool Zoo Summer Series."
But, if living animals are more your style, the next program in the series wil be a penguin visit on August 6.