Eli enjoys memorizing animal facts and always wants to share his knowledge with other kids and helping them fall in love with nature too!
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Learn moreEli loves animals and he believes that nature should be treated respectfully and with kindness even in its most wild state. He would like to share a quote from Jacques Cousteau (who he recently studied in school); “We must go see for ourselves” his motto. To Eli, nature is a unique place filled with creatures and organisms you don’t find in the city. He loves studying nature and is always looking for something new he hasn’t learned about yet.
Anaconda- Eli likes the anaconda because of its constricting power, camouflage abilities, and that it can swallow its prey whole. He would love to meet an anaconda.
This is an impossible question for Eli as he loves almost everything you can do in nature. Eli loves to go hiking in the woods. He also enjoys fishing. He caught, prepared and ate his first fish all at the young age of 5. Eli enjoys biking, exploring, running and jumping. He can often be found poking under rocks and logs hoping to make a new nature discovery. Eli enjoys learning about edible plants and would love to attempt to spend 24 hours eating only safe foraged plants from our area.
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