Read the bird signs. Write T (True) or F (False).

Binary conversion: T=1, F=0.

How did each bird come to Austin Zoo? Use the information signs.

1. Pebbles (Yellow-collared Macaw):
2. Bam Bam (Blue-winged Macaw):
3. Floyd (African Grey Parrot):
4. Priscilla (Great Horned Owl):

Answer each clue from the aviary signs. Take the first letter of each answer.

This word describes what the Feathered Eye values above all else. Remember it for your Wardstone!

1. Read the Black Bear sign for Korben, Tilly, and Ruby's DOBs. How many total months have they lived combined as of April 25, 2026?

   Calculate each bear's age in months from their DOB, then add all three.

2. If a capybara runs at half a black bear's speed (35 mph) and can hold its breath for 5 minutes, how far (in miles as a fraction) can it travel in one breath-hold?

   distance = speed × time. Convert 5 min to fraction of an hour first.

3. The Coati's snout can rotate 60° left AND 60° right from center. What is the total arc of snout rotation?
4. Tobi the Silver Fox was born February 11, 2021 and arrived October 26, 2021. How many days old was Tobi when he arrived?

Feed 5 mammals (8 min each, 4-min breaks). Rules: fox before capybara. Capybara before coati. Bear cannot be first or last. Genet must be last.

1. List ALL valid feeding orders:
2. At what time does the genet finish eating? (First feeding at 10:00 AM)

   Total: 5×8 min + 4×4 min = 56 min

3. Bonus: If a kinkajou must eat after the bear but before the genet, and takes 8 min with 4-min break, when does genet finish now?

Each answer is a name or word from the signs. First letter of each answer spells a word.

1. "I am a melanistic morph of Vulpes vulpes — black-silver, not legal as a pet in Texas. My species is a 3-letter word. What am I?"
   1st letter:
2. "I am a black bear abandoned with my siblings in Oregon, and my name is a precious red gemstone. Who am I?"
   1st letter:
3. "I am one of two capybaras. I share my enclosure with a partner named Enrique. Who am I?"
   1st letter:
4. "I am a South American Coati bought at a pet store. My name suggests I was stitched together. Who am I?"
   1st letter:
5. "I am a black bear rescued in Oregon. My name rhymes with 'silly.' Who am I?"
   1st letter:

This word describes something cold and crystalline. Remember it for your Wardstone!

1. Sango is a Transvaal Lion. "Trans-" = "across," "Vaal" = an Afrikaans river. What does "Transvaal" literally mean?
2. The cougar has many names. "Catamount" is a contraction of an old phrase. What three-word phrase do you think it comes from?
   • Cat of the mount (cat of the mountain)
   • Cat among trees
   • Catching mountains
   • Catalina mountain cat
3. The Bobcat's scientific name is Lynx rufus. The Latin word rufus means which color?
   • Black
   • Red / reddish
   • White
   • Golden
4. White tigers result from a recessive gene. If two heterozygous (Bb) tigers mate, what fraction of offspring would be white? Draw a Punnett square and simplify.

   White = homozygous recessive (bb). Draw: Bb × Bb.

1. Sango the Transvaal Lion was born on what date?
2. Vera the Cougar is the 4th heaviest cat. Name the three heavier species:
3. Name the ancient land bridge bobcats crossed and how long ago (in millions of years):

Choose any one big cat. Write its medieval bestiary entry: 3 real facts, everything else magnificently exaggerated. 50–100 words.

1. How many individually named reptiles can you find on signs? (Count each named animal once.)

   This is your Caesar Shift key! (Expected: 6)

2. Shift each letter backward by that amount to decode:
   UCRY YKK CNGZ YNGJUCY NOJK

   Shift key = 6. Wrap Z→A if needed.

Use Cipher III (Prime Number Code): A=2, B=3, C=5, D=7, E=11...

Use Cipher I (Menagerie Alphabet). Each animal name = a letter.

1. Hidden word from Puzzle 3 (Trial I):
2. Secret word from Puzzle 6 (Trial II):
3. Last two words from decoded Caesar message (Puzzle 10):

4-line rhyming oath for the Covenant of the Feathered Eye. Must use at least 4 real Austin Zoo animal names. Bonus for iambic pentameter!