Nicole Blanchflower and Jasmine Foubister (pictured) particularly enjoyed touching the scaly skin of Matey, an Australian bearded dragon. As part of the playgroup's topic work on minibeasts, the group of 20 children, aged between two-and-a-half and five, also encountered stick insects, snakes, a leopard gecko and a tarantula during a visit by Roland Digby from the Aberdeen-based Bug-U-Like.
Playgroup supervisor Hema Kamath said it gave the children a chance to see and touch animals that they might otherwise never meet. She said, 'The children absolutely loved it and they have been talking about the different creatures and including the experience in their games ever since.
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