Madagascar Mystery Cache

If you like animals, and if you love movies, especially animated ones, then you will like this cache! It will lead you to Skopje ZOO and to Madagascar at the same time. Okay, through the movie Madagascar

The ZOO (Macedonian: Zooloshka gradina) Skopje, Macedonia. It is home to about 300 animals representing 56 species.

The Skopje ZOO is a 12-hectare (30-acre) ZOO in City Park (Gradski Park), founded in 1926. When it was opened, the ZOO covered only 4 hectares (9.9 acres), and exhibited only a few animals which it had received as gifts. With a decision by the Skopje city council in 1965, and the new town zoning in 1966, the ZOO was expanded to its current size.

Over the years the ZOO received much criticism for the living conditions of its animals. The only elephant ever held by the ZOO died less than a year after being transferred from the Belgrade ZOO, and the chronically depressed lone Chimpanzee Koko was transferred to the AAP Primate Sanctuary in 2009.

However, in 2008 the City allocated Denar 42 million in funds to improve the ZOO, and the ZOO started working with the European Association of ZOOs and Aquaria (EAZA) to improve conditions and bring the ZOO up to modern standards. By 2010, 18 new enclosures had been built, 85% of the older exhibits at the ZOO had been renovated, and the ZOO was a candidate member of the EAZA.

About this cache: It would be too easy and boring just enter the ZOO and find the cache using clear coordinates. (The coordinates N 42° 00.344 E 021° 25.027 mark the entrance to the Skopje ZOO). To conquer this cache, you must answer 10 questions to reveal the accurate coordinates. Let’s have fun and remind on adventures of Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Gloria the hippopotamus and Melman the giraffe from the New York ZOO, in the animated film MADAGASCAR. If you (or your kids – this is their opportunity to “blackmail” the parents: 1 answer = 1 ice-cream!) have watched this movie, the job is easily done. If not – ask neighbor's kids, watch you tube, read articles (but it is advisable to watch the movie – it is cool!)

Madagascar Heroes

The mystery cache coordinates are

N 42 M(A1).D(A2)G E 21 (A3)S.C(A4)R

Question (for M): At the Grand Central Station in New Yoork Alex was beaten by:

Answers:

a. old lady (0)

b. police officer (2)

c. kid (3)

Question (for A1): Skipper, Rico, Kowalski and Private are::

Answers:

a. monkeys (1)

b. penguins (0)

c. sailors(2)

Question (for D): Marty the zebra celebrates his:

Answers:

a. 5th birthday(6)

b. 10 th birthday (4)

c. 15th birthday(1)

Question (for A2): The ship, transporting Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman, is sailing to Wildlife preserve in:

Answers:

a. Kenya (7)

b. Gabon (2)

c. Zimbabwe (6)

Question (for G): At the first appearance of the tribe of lemurs, their King Julien XIII sings:

Answers:

a. “I like to beat beat it” (0)

b. “I like to move move it” (4)

c. “I like to eat eat it” (8)

Question (for A3): The lemur tribe declares Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman to be:

Answers:

a. New York Giants (2)

b. New York Knights (5)

c. New York Sharks (7)

Question (for S): The biggest enemy of King’s Julien lemur tribe is:

Answers:

a. bossa (1)

b. mossa (9)

c. fossa (5)

Question (for C): When the penguins with the kidnapped ship finally reach the Antarctica, their first words are:

Answers:

a. “vodka with ice” (6)

b. “home, sweet home” (4)

c. “it sucks” (0)

Question (for A4): The Lemur tribe is holding a meeting in the crashed airplane. Clerk (scorer) on this meeting is:

Answers:

a. mouse (4)

b. chameleon (1)

c. bird (0)

Question (for R): During the meeting in the crashed airplane, King Julien as a scepter holds:

Answers:

a. palm branch (5)

b. zebra tail (3)

c. hand skeleton (7)

Now, you are ready to complete the cache coordinates, find it and log! Congratulations!

Cache: The cache is often missing, so let's try an other way to log: Send me solved "puzzle" with the coordinates; if correct, you can log your find.

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Useful info: the ZOO is open every day, working hours: Jan., Febr., Nov., Dec. 08-16; Mar., Oct. 08-17; Apr., Sept. 09-18; May, Jun., Jul., Aug. 09-19. Entrance fee: 80 denars/person

Sources: Wikipedia, other internet sources. Photos: Internet and original (by Galejnik)