Interesting exhibit names in the U.S.

Moebelle

Moebelle

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This is all I have so far, does anyone else have any.


Night Hunters: Cincinnati Zoo
Wings of the World: A Celebration of Flight: Cincinnati zoo
Voyage to Australia and the Islands: Columbus Zoo
Elephant Odyssey: San Diego Zoo
Great EscApe: Oklahoma city zoo
Red Ape Reserve: Oregon Zoo
Hidden Treasures of the Rainforest: Newport Aquarium
Bizarre and Beautiful: Newport Aquarium
Feathers and Scales: Brookfield Zoo
Arctic Ring of Life: Detroit Zoo
Flights of Fancy: A Brilliance of Birds: Indianapolis Zoo
Serengeti Crossing: Franklin Park Zoo
Wild Asia Monorail: Bronx Zoo
Legends of the Wild: Akron Zoo
Asian Highlands: Hogle Zoo
Think Tank and the O-Line: National Zoo
 
The Santa Barbara Zoo reptile/invertebrate exhibit is called "Ewwwwwwww!" and features a giant king snake model coiled above its entrance.
 
Without a doubt, the most creative and interesting exhibit name is MOLA: Museum Of Living Art (Fort Worth Zoo).

Some others off the top of my head:

Expedition Tanzania (Reid Park Zoo)
Congo Gorilla Forest (Bronx Zoo)
Giants Of The Savannah (Dallas Zoo)
Brazos River Country (Cameron Park Zoo)
Elephant Odyssey (San Diego Zoo)
Life On The Rocks (Arizona Sonora Desert Museum)
 
Aquazoo, Twilight Zoo, Niches of the World (Pittsburgh)
Nichenook (Birmingham)
Cascade Canyon (San Diego)
Hippoquarium (Toledo)
Island Lost in Time (Micke Grove Zoo)
It's A Small World (Wildlife World Zoo)
Habitat Africa! (Brookfield)
Ohio's Disappearing Wetlands, Habitat Hollow (Columbus)
Mahali Pa Simba (Oakland)
Hidden Jungle, Heart of Africa (SDWAP)
Once Upon a Farm (Memphis)
Think Tank (National)
Trail of Vines (Woodland Park Zoo)
The Outer Bay (Monterey Bay Aquarium)
Streamside (North Carolina Zoo)
Marco Polo Trail (R Williams Park Zoo)
Unseen New World, Bamboo Trail (Nashville)
USS Antiquities (R Gifford Zoo)
Thundering Plains (Fort Worth)
River's Edge (Saint Louis)
Puente al Sur (San Francisco)
Vanishing Giants, Lords of the Arctic (Cincinnati)
Pride of the Plains (Sedgwick Co.)
Toadally Frogs (Moody Gardens)
Land of the Giants (Racine)
Paws On, Expedition Africa (Brevard)
Ecostation (Buffalo)
Wings of Asia (Miami)
Wild Reef, Amazon Rising (Shedd)
Tiny Tot Nature Spot (San Antonio)
Sciquarium (Greensboro Natural Science Center)
Restless Planet (Virginia Aquarium)
Trader's Alley (Atlanta)
Monarch of the Desert (Living Desert)
 
Then there is "Desert Lives" at the Phoenix Zoo. Nobody is certain whether lives is a noun or verb in this context.
 
Thanks for all these great replies, I totally forgot about Lords of the Arctic and Vanishings Giants. To add a few more to the Cincinnati list: Siegfried and Roy's White Lions of Timbavati, Eagle Eyrie, Deer Line(1942-1989) and the "Roadhouse" from the Columbus Zoo.

Gerenuk: For Columbus's Ohio's Disappearing Wetlands, and the Habitat Hollow exhibits, where are these part of in the North America exhibit if they even are?
 
I liked the original name for the LA Zoo's new reptile house which was HISS Center (forgot what HISS stood for), but the new name is alright, the LAIR (Living Amphibians, Insects, and Reptiles). Although it is very similar to Fort Worth Zoo's MOLA.
 
mstickmanp said:
I liked the original name for the LA Zoo's new reptile house which was HISS Center (forgot what HISS stood for), but the new name is alright, the LAIR (Living Amphibians, Insects, and Reptiles). Although it is very similar to Fort Worth Zoo's MOLA.
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I am trying to look up the words for HISS, but still nothing. Would you suspect the H stands for Herpatarium? And I for insect?
 
Moebelle said:
I am trying to look up the words for HISS, but still nothing. Would you suspect the H stands for Herpatarium? And I for insect?
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I think that you are likely correct about the H and I. The name was a working name for the project and was not the official name for very long, if ever.
 
Moebelle said:
Thanks for all these great replies, I totally forgot about Lords of the Arctic and Vanishings Giants. To add a few more to the Cincinnati list: Siegfried and Roy's White Lions of Timbavati, Eagle Eyrie, Deer Line(1942-1989) and the "Roadhouse" from the Columbus Zoo.

Gerenuk: For Columbus's Ohio's Disappearing Wetlands, and the Habitat Hollow exhibits, where are these part of in the North America exhibit if they even are?
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Habitat Hollow is a children's zoo/petting farm located just beyond the Mexican Wolves near the front of North America and Disappearing Wetlands is a small exhibit for North American River Otters towards the back of NA.

Team Tapir
 
reduakari said:
Arguably one of the best all-time exhibits at San Diego. I was a bit surprised that the first big modern "immersion" exhibit (Tiger River) was planned as a replacement for this, as it was at the time far superior to anything else at the zoo.
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What was the San Diego Cascade Canyon? From the postcard that Moebelle posted it looks like a very pretty waterfall with great landscaping. Was it an animal exhibit also?
 
DavidBrown said:
What was the San Diego Cascade Canyon? From the postcard that Moebelle posted it looks like a very pretty waterfall with great landscaping. Was it an animal exhibit also?
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Sitatunga, cranes, storks, waterfowl. Maybe other antelope species as well?
 
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