Our Melton Campus Year 10 Pre-Psychology students visited the Melbourne Zoo last week to further explore ethics and qualitative and quantitative analysis.

They participated in two workshops evaluating the positive welfare of zoo animals and developed a hypothesis predicting whether captive orangutans would be more or less active than those in the wild.

They spent time observing and recording behaviours such as grooming, conflict or competition, foraging or locomotion. It was a fabulous day, and we thank the students for engaging in the activities and representing the College so well.

Here’s what our students had to say:

"Going to the Melbourne Zoo opened my eyes to the ethical principles needed to keep