When visiting the location with my sisters, as expected, the animals took up a huge part of the attention paid.
As part of the project experiment style, I asked them to each pick a place to go and then pick what they wanted me to take pictures of, also prompting them to look at more than just the animals. Through this I noticed that my youngest sister, Charlotte, took interest in the animals when they were alone rather than in groups or herds. Whenever she asked me to take a picture of something it was usually a single animal, “that zebra,” or “the meerkat.” I am not sure why she was more drawn to these. Perhaps because she is younger, focusing on one is a little easier than several, doing different things. She tends to do this when reading books too- will generally point to one illustration out of the whole page and talk about that.
Contrastingly, my other sister, at eight years old, enjoys reading everything she can understand- because her literacy is improving. Thus, she paid a lot of attention to the signs, telling us what lots of them said, if there were no pictures to tell, yet also asking to take pictures of the animals, single and in groups, too. The concentration differed a lot between the two, and I think I only noticed because I know them so well.
Just with the Abbotsford Convent in task three, the Zoo proved to be a generous location to house different attention, perspectives, etc.