Salute to Wildlife Ice Carving Week

Animals at the Bronx Zoo are rarely frozen in place, but this time of year is an exception, when artists give daily demonstrations of how they sculpt various species from blocks of ice. This year, artists will create creatures native to the tropics — though that may sound odd for an ice festival, the zoo is aiming to highlight the Wildlife Conservation Society’s efforts in the Brazilian rain forests and the Amazon River Basin — and on Sunday, visitors can vote for their favorite ice animal in several categories. The event will also include an ice play area, with a 25-foot-long rain forest canopy ice slide, and, on Monday only, at 11:30 a.m. and 1 and 2:30 p.m., story time with a visit from characters from “Arthur,” the PBS series based on Marc Brown’s books.