Nicholas Colclough, a 2nd grader at St. Andrews School, became the proud Zoo Parent of “Murphy”, one of Ardastra’s Spiny-Tailed Iguanas.   Nicholas adopted Murphy from the Ardastra’s Adopt-an-Animal program.

“I chose “Murphy” (the Spiny-Tailed Iguana) because my friends in Canada have a dog named Murphy!”,  the 8-year old told Katherine Solomon, widow of Ardastra’s late owner, Norman Solomon.  Nicholas continued, “I thought it would be cool to adopt an animal with that same name.” Mrs. Solomon thanked Nicholas for his kind sponsorship and assured him that his donation will help feed and care for Murphy.

Ardastra’s Adopt –an- Animal is a recently launched sponsorship program which allows children the opportunity to financially support an animal at Ardastra for a period of 1 year.  The children are given an “adoption certificate” for the sponsored animal and permitted to visit their animal at any time.