The “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society-Friends of the Refuge (DDWS) reported that the J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge’s Wildlife on Wheels (WoW) mobile classroom is back in commission.
For three weeks, it will visit Lehigh Elementary in Lehigh Acres.
Recently, first graders learned the basic needs of survival for living things, such as the necessity of shelter for animals inhabiting the estuary. They also learned the Florida manatee is an herbivore that breathes oxygen with its lungs. The students got to hold one of its rib bones.