Creatures Great & Small is a non-profit organization dedicated and devoted to providing safe refuges and sanctuaries for exotic animals, birds and reptiles from around the world, and most importantly was created to provide educational programs that teach and enlighten students and the public about the environment, ecology and what can be done to preserve endangered and threatened animals for future generations.

A very exciting and innovative way of accomplishing this goal is through our vision of Creatures Great & Small, Animated Museums. These museums can be placed in many states across the U.S. and can be customized for each locations needs and goals.

The animals will tell the story on a global view, but also can explain what is happening on a local and regional scale. The animated museums are not only educational and informative, but fun and entertaining.

A great way to learn about our environment and our ever changing world!

The following is a description of the animated museums and what would take place in each visit.

    As you enter the building, a beautiful lifelike talking animatronic animal will greet you and introduce you to the place you are about to visit.  It will tell you about this wonderful adventure you are about to have and ask you to continue on your path by following the footprints, colorfully placed along the way.

  As you follow the footprints you come to a variety of extinct animals such as dinosaurs, a saber-tooth-tiger, a wooly-mammoth and other creatures that are no longer with us.

  Surrounded by tropical foliage and sounds of the past, you will be able to hear these creature's stories as they tell of where they have been, their history and what happened to them.  Then you will reach the end of the footprints to a doorway that will open into a small theater.

     On the stage is a jungle scene with beautiful animals such as a tiger, chimpanzee, baby elephant, rhino, lemur, snakes and different large birds like macaws, parrots, and toucans. Also on stage are two large trees, that some of the creatures have found their home in.

As you sit down, the lights grow dim and you see the animals come to life as one of the animals greets you and thanks you for stopping by.  Each creature tells their story and gives a little of their history and background —something like this…

The tiger says, “Did you know there are only 3,000 of us left in the wild?   Due to conditions of the environment, poaching and the destruction of our habitats, they say within the next five years to ten years we will become like our friends you encountered in the front of your journey, extinct, no longer around, except, if we are lucky in a zoo or two… no more to roam this place we call earth, free and wild as our Creator meant for us to do.”

Then the birds tell their story and the rhino and the other creatures.  Then suddenly the two trees come to life, and tell the others not to forget about them.  They too are being destroyed and burned as the rainforest is depleted at a rate of over 200,000 acres per day, with all the plants and vegetation and all living creatures that live within their home.

On a large video screen there will be shots of some of the devastation, helping the audience to realize what is truly happening to our planet. Enlightening them in the correlation between the smallest organism to the largest and how we are all interconnected.

As the lights come back on, a host will ask if there are any questions and one or two of the animatronic animals will answer them and ask the audience questions. (These animatronic animals are voice activated, and will talk with amazing realism, when the person with a microphone behind the stage talks into it.)  This brings the audience into a more intimate relationship with what they have just encountered and makes a lasting impression on the children, as well as adults.  

Of course, this is just a synopsis of the script, but all is presented in a dramatic, yet entertaining and educational way.  The program will keep us up-to-date with today’s environment and give us insight and suggestions of what we can do to help and become better stewards of this world in which we live.

 The animated animals will be designed by one of the top animatronics designers, Steve Issacs, President of Animated Effects. His work is world renown, and is displayed in such places at The Natural History Museum of Las Vegas, MGM Grand and other prominent entertainment and educational facilities. Thanks Steve for all your help.

 Through these animated museums, people would not only have an enchanting wondrous time, they would also come away with knowledge and a consciousness about our ever- changing environment and ways in which they can make a difference.

If you would like to help make our vision a reality, please contact John Rohloff, director and founder of Creatures Great & Small at the numbers below.

580-622-6125 or 580-618-0953  

Creatures Great & Small      P.O. Box 411      Davis OK   73030            

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