“Amazonia” is yet another massive indoor rainforest building and in 2008 it became another impressive edition to the long list of mega-exhibit complexes in American zoos. It contains these species: jaguar; black howler monkey/squirrel monkey exhibit; Goeldi’s monkey; prehensile-tailed porcupines and two-toed sloths in an exhibit with zero barriers between humans and zoo critters other than viewing from a suspension bridge; a researcher’s hut with several terrariums of invertebrates; free-flying spoonbills and ibises; emerald tree boa; giant cockroach; giant monkey frog; Peruvian fire-stick; Jamaican fruit bat; short-tailed fruit bat; long-tongued bat; short-tailed opossum; Cuvier’s dwarf caiman in a beautifully designed exhibit; yellow-spotted river turtle; giant river turtle; yellow-footed tortoise; a huge Columbian tegu in a small enclosure; a Baird’s tapir in with a capybara; keel-billed toucans; and a large assortment of South American fish.
