A view inside the Nocturama hall in the Papiliorama. The Nocturama is a quite unique nocturnal house consisting of a glass dome almost 40 meters in diameter and 14 meters tall. Its translucid roof filters daylight approximately a thousand times, thus creating an artificial moonlight.
The free-ranging animals in here are consists of: Grey-legged night monkeys (Aotus lemurinus griseimembra), sebas short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata), pale spear-nosed bat (Phyllostomus discolor) and pallas long-tongued bat (Glossophaga soricina). Visitors actually have to be careful walking through here as the bats come VERY close, often grazing or crashing right into you.
Other exhibits inside the Nocturama (that I unfortunately couldnt get a picture of) include ocelots (Leopardus pardalis), spectacled owls (Pulsatrix perspicillata) and cuviers dwarf caimans (Paleosuchus palpebrosus).
Papiliorama, July 2010.
