American alligator exhibit, 2020-06-28

The newly renovated crocodile exhibit housing the American alligators I actually found a little bit better than I expected, and the recent renovation seems to have improved the exhibit a bit. It is not a bad exhibit for American alligators, but not great one either. I however still think getting larger crocodiles again to be a strange decision.

I also found the lighting of the exhibit to be substantially duskier and more unnatural that before.

I also saw the simulated tropical thunderstorm in the alligator exhibit again (from a distance, so no pictures of it), and that too seems to have been changed into a more spectacular form again, compared to the one I saw last year. For example the exhibit now again becomes entirely dark again during the "storm", the noises were louder and more impressive again and there is a simulated falling branch/tree again (the prop just drops a meter or so down from the ceiling).