LaughingDove

View in the 'Underground World'

Taken 29th October 2015
I must have missed this part of the zoo in 2011. Where is the entrance located?
 
ah yes, we missed that part because we had to rush the final parts of the zoo.
Is it just bats or are there other kinds of animals as well?
 
ah yes, we missed that part because we had to rush the final parts of the zoo.
Is it just bats or are there other kinds of animals as well?

Not just bats, there's a fair range of species.
Here's a species list:

Edible Dormouse
Common Toad
Small House Spider (Tegenaria domestica)
Herald (Scoliopteryx libatrix)
European Green Toad
Cave Cricket (Phaeophilacris bredoides)
Greenhouse Camel Cricket (Diestrammena asynomara)
Garra
Brown Rat
Black Rat
Egyptian Rousette
Cellar Beetle (Blaps mortisaga)
Death Watch (Anobium pertinax)
Blind Cave Tetra
Rio Cauca Caecilian
Bird-eating Spider
Giant Toad
Reticulate Python
Cuban Burrowing Cockroach (Byrsotria fumigata)
American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana)
Cuban Boa
Curacaoan Long-nosed Bat
Seba's Short-tailed Bat
Pallas' Long-tongued Bat
Purple Sea Urchin
Tubeworms
Common Earthworm
Ant (Lasius emarginatus)
Mandarin Salamander
North African Fire Salamander
 
Oh, I must have missed this too - unless it is new?
It sounds like a very interesting exhibit, is it a re-purposed building (shelter or cellar or somehting?) or purpose built?
 
It was built as a shelter for general staff of nazi anti-aircraft protection force, with electricity, forced aircirculation, surgery room etc. At the end of WWII, Germans left it without fight. Then it was used to store potatoes and fruit. When zoo bought it, it was used to hibernate tortoises and cactus plants in winter. The current exhibit exists since 2012.
 
It was built as a shelter for general staff of nazi anti-aircraft protection force, with electricity, forced aircirculation, surgery room etc. At the end of WWII, Germans left it without fight. Then it was used to store potatoes and fruit. When zoo bought it, it was used to hibernate tortoises and cactus plants in winter. The current exhibit exists since 2012.

Thanks Jana. I guess it wasn't open yet when I visited in January 2012.
 

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