Masoala rainforest - treetops walk

The treetops walk brings you at over 20 meters height and gives a great view on the 30 meters high rainforest hall.

In my opinion, this is the best rainforest hall in Europe, way better than Gondwanaland and also better than Burgers Zoo. The main strengths are imo the focuss on 1 specific location, the height and the very strong education, with many volunteers and a large exhibition hall at the exit of the rainforest.

I agree that this is the best rainfall hall in Europe, and probably the world. Now to top this, Zurich should build a similar hall focusing on the African rainforest, and display gorillas, pygmy hippos, other primates and a range of birds and reptiles, indoors year round. Obviously not all of it would be walkthrough, but some could still be.

And then maybe one for South-East Asia, with orangs as the stars...

Wow this looks like a great exhibit, might have to make a visit sometime.

I like that there is no "star" of this huge exhibit! It makes it more realistic and exciting to stumble upon whatever you come into contact to. Everything is free range, correct?

Everything is free range - although the aldabra giant tortoises are restricted to an island in a corner of the exhibit together with the surrounding water pond/"moat".

If you consider the zoo's ad campaigns the red ruffed lemurs and the giant day geckos (phelsuma grandis) might be considered the "stars" of the exhibit. But you are right, the exhibit is much more about discovering all sorts of animals and does not revolve around one specific species. Some species are very easy to spot, like the aldabra tortoises, red fodies or flying foxes, others require a little more patience (giant day geckos, chameleons, hammerkop), are quite rare (red ruffed lemurs, ibis) or virtually invisible (boas, tenrecs, amphibians, leaf-tail geckoes, aloatra bamboo lemurs).