High school in Japan plans petting zoo to attract more students

As part of the education it offers about animals, the high school has cows and chickens, but also rabbits, ponies, goats, and turtles. -- PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: UNSPLASH via The Straits Times/ANN

SEIYO, Japan (The Japan News/ANN): A petting zoo is being developed at a prefectural high school in Seiyo, Ehime Prefecture, with its opening planned for April or later.

At Nomura High School, which has a livestock breeding department, students and teachers have been working on this project in an effort to attract more students to the school by allowing them to interact with animals, amid declining student numbers.