Small Animal Building – This structure is directly inside the zoo’s entrance and features 29 exhibits in terrariums of a variety of sizes. Species list: African spurred tortoise (hatchling), desert tortoise (hatchling), Indian star tortoise, leopard tortoise, inland bearded dragon, desert pupfish, Chilean rose tarantula, eleodes beetle, golden huntsman spider, green lynx spider, black widow spider, desert hairy scorpion, common chuckwalla (juvenile), gila monster, southern Pacific rattlesnake (common color phase), southern Pacific rattlesnake (melanistic color phase), speckled rattlesnake, western diamondback rattlesnake, American sidewinder, American fat-tailed gecko, banded gecko, desert iguana, gopher snake, western hog-nosed snake, rosy boa, common kingsnake and Mexican milksnake.
That is something I would really like to see. I saw a melanistic western diamondback recently in Albuquerque (Rattlesnake Museum) and it was very striking (no pun intended).
