I am sorry for being so late, but anyway: that's the news:
What I can offer you is a virtual visit of the exhibit.
So: we are in 2020, and we are exited to see this wonderful new exhibit. We arrive on a new square, where we can admire the new outoor aviaries for harpy eagle and squirel monkeys, but also the entrance of the famous "dome". What is very surprising is that this entrance is like a rocky tunnel, framed by waterfalls. After we went through this tunnel, we arrive directly inside the dome, in the first zone: South America. To the right, we can see a huge aquaterrarium for the green anacondas, already in the zoo, but in a less good exhibit. In front of us, we can see the jewel of the exhibit: the manatees pond: 3,5 meters deep, with a huge glass, twice the one of the hippopotamus big (and this one is 22 meters big !). The manatees live with a lot of amazonian fishes and with amazonian turtles, exactly like in the current pool. We will began our walk by the left. To the right, we can still see the huge group of manatees, and to left, we can see spectacular aviaries, going up until 20 meters high ! These ones are home to south american animals: the first hosts tamandua with toco toucan, the second is the indoor exhibit of the saimiris. After that, in a hole, we can see various reptiles and frogs (tegu, dendrobates and mata mata). After an aquarium for pirhanas, still on the left, lets interest us on the right, where we can see (by an other spectacular glass (23 meters this time)), giant otters. To the left, an other pond is home for white alligators. Finally, a mangrove exhibt is home to sand fiddler crabs, periophtalmus, fishes and I think turtles.
We just finished the South amerian zone. Now, we will go to an other zone: Africa and the Indian Ocean islands.
To the right, we can see, in two spectaculars pond/enclosures, a cohabitation between pygmy hippos, diana monkeys, talapoin and african cichlids. To the left, another giant aviary is home to various lemurs and radiated tortoise. After that exhibit, we can see the indoor enclosure of the Aldabra giant tortoises, which have also an outoor exhibit (the lemurs also have one). To the right, we have another spectacular vision: a huge aviary in cantilever, with a suspension bridge inside, to see bats and many other animals such as bee-eaters. Finally we will discover the last zone: Asia.
In a hole, we can see many fishes and reptiles like pythons. After that, to the right, huge glasses let us discover Komodo dragons in two enclosures. This specie is alerady in the zoo since 2014, but visitors can't see them yet. Next to the Komodo dragons, a huge aquaterrarium is home to gavials. To the left, we can sit on the terrasse of the restaurant. Finally, we begin our walk on the concrete gateway. We can see monitor lizards, and all the animals we have already seen, but on a different way. I have forgotten to say that there is an island on the manatees exhibit for south american monkeys. In freedom, there will be some birds such as cock of the rock.
I will give you more informations tomorrow.