Arizona Docent, do you know why this exhibit was essentially abandoned as an animal exhibit? It used to have vampire bats, skunk, ring-tail, and other species. Now it has only scorpions and blind-cave fish. Nobody that I've asked seems to know what went wrong with it as originally designed.
The exhibit has scorpions and axolotls, not blind-cave fish. It is a shame that the exhibit spaces inside are not being used, but at least the lighting inside has been repaired.
The exhibit has scorpions and axolotls, not blind-cave fish. It is a shame that the exhibit spaces inside are not being used, but at least the lighting inside has been repaired.
That shows you how often I go in there. At one time there were blind cave fish. When I first visited in 1989 there was a striped skunk, ring-tailed cat [not really a cat], vampire bats, and holograms of Gary Shandling and Betty White talking about the animals.
That shows you how often I go in there. At one time there were blind cave fish. When I first visited in 1989 there was a striped skunk, ring-tailed cat [not really a cat], vampire bats, and holograms of Gary Shandling and Betty White talking about the animals.
NZ glow-worms are gnat larvae and are fairly specific in their habitat requirements. It would be infinitely easier to keep and breed tropical fireflies or European glow-worms.
Walt Disney Imagineering is nearby the zoo and did some special effects work for this cave exhibit when it first opened. Somehow they had projectors set up so that it looked like Betty White, Gary Shandling (and maybe others?) were appearing in the animal exhibits to talk about their natural history. It was cool, but apparently didn't work in the long run. Maybe someone here knows more about this effect and what happened to it? I only saw it once briefly.
