rainforest

This past weekend, while en route to the Jacksonville Zoo and Botanical Gardens, I made the last-minute decision to visit an obscure facility that’s been on my mind ever since it first opened last year (more on that below). Now, after yesterday’s visit (19/09); I can confirm that while the...

Eating from a bowl of porridge

White-faced Saki Monkey arrivals at London Zoo grooming each other. The male has the striking white mask-like face and black fur whereas the female is browner overall and without the white face.

One of three new Saki Monkey arrivals at London Zoo in the Rainforest Kingdom, this female looks very different from the male

Hey all, I have a backlog of species lists for zoos and aquariums in the Houston area from when I was there in late April of this year. They might be a bit out of date, but hopefully they should be pretty accurate still. This list is for Moody Gardens in Galveston, TX, and includes both the...

A giant owl that has gone almost unseen in African rainforests for 150 years has been photographed in the wild for the first time by British scientists working in Ghana. Shelley’s Eagle Owl was spotted on 16 October in what has been hailed as a “sensational discovery” by ecologists. With only...

Hello everyone, I have a question about early zoo Rainforest buildings. I know Topeka Zoo is credited with opening the first Rainforest dome in the year 1974, although I'm aware of at least one zoo with a Rainforest building, although not a dome, prior to this date. That zoo is my home zoo of...

Forest burning allegedly carried out by a foreign company in Papua to build a palm oil plantations. Responding to this event, the Indonesian twitter users used the hashtag #SavePapuaForest and #SaveHutanIndonesia as a form of wrath that their country's rainforest is being destroyed by a...

What zoos and aquariums have good tanks representing the amazon such as Milwaukee County Zoo's flooded forest exhibit?

In rainforest building

In Rainforest exhibit

Hey so my third question I have, so I am continuing planning and having idea for this zoo of my dreams. But now I don't know what animal can go well with the Azara's Agouti? I want to put them with some type of South American mammal OR birds OR both. (most likely both) Cause I feel these guys...

The indoor Amazon Rainforest (or Asian rainforest... or African Rainforest) is a fairly common staple for zoos and aquariums. But aside from some basic ideas and themes they are all very similar. If you were assigned the task of creating an indoor rainforest what would you do differently? What...

heres a 2 minute video of the rainforest at london zoo let me know if the link works