Though I can’t imagine why you’d want to, the vampire bat exhibit is skippable though the Seba’s bat exhibit is not.
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Thanks! I was attacked by a bat years ago and while I've gotten myself down from an outright phobia to just a massive fear, I'm still not yet at a comfort level where I can look at an exhibit.
Seriously??? Lack of interest? One cool thing about Jabirus is that when you compare them to a Marabou (for example) they are all legs 5+ feet tall also adding that they are from the Pliocene so technically they're a living fossil. I know that the Migratory Bird Treaty Act was designed 100 years ago to prevent the practice of bird hats, excessive hunting and other factors but I think there should be a few exceptions especially captive wildlife conservation. I can guess Belize would have restrictions on importation since there are low numbers there, but what about Brazil or Argentina? They have healthy numbers of them.
Seriously. Most zoos and zoo visitors don’t care about an ugly white bird. I loved seeing it myself, but Joe Public doesn’t feel that way and honestly it is a rather boring last exhibit in the aquarium with only one elderly bird remaining.
DWA’s current bird came from Venezuela.
Kniepert13
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Hi Guys quick question about the DWA, looking at pictures of the aqaurium online I can see a whale shark. Do they have one because I cant seem to find anything on the website of the DWA
No they don't, Google images is pretty good at showing the wrong pictures, often because people can't label stuff correctly....
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Looking on Google I see two photos of Whale Sharks used in connection with DWA (by other sites, not by DWA itself). I think the photos are actually from Okinawa.
Kniepert13
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Ah well what a weird connection but o well, next to that I was also wondering how many Giant River Otters the DWA has at this moment and from what i read they have 1.1 but that was a couple of years ago
d1am0ndback
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A lot has changed with the aquarium since my last update. Most obvious are the changes to Borneo, where two male Blythe's hornbills have gone on exhibit in place of the lesser birds of paradise, wompoo fruit doves, and pesquet parrot. The red birds of paradise are no longer on exhibit, and in their place is now the pair of wompoo fruit doves and pesquet parrot. The pair of oriental pied hornbill are no longer on exhibit, in their place is a rhinoceros hornbill. The cockatoo in the neighboring exhibit is also no longer on exhibit, it has been replaced by a great Indian hornbill, though the argus pheasants still share the exhibit space.
In Orinoco construction of some kind has begun in the space across from the golden lion tamarin exhibit. Green basilisk have gone on exhibit in place of the red tailed boa above the Orinoco crocodiles. In one of the small terrariums in the vampire bat cave, Amazon poison frogs, Ranitomaya amazonica, have gone on exhibit. In the small terrarium near the arowana pond, dyeing dart frogs have gone on exhibit. The giant wood rail in the anteater enclosure and the keel billed toucan in Cotinga Corner are no longer on exhibit.
In Mundo Maya, yapok have been placed back on exhibit. I only saw two of them, both very actively running/swimming around towards the closing time of the aquarium. The large cylindrical coral reef tank seen shortly after the Morelet's crocodiles has been completely redesigned and now houses three lesser devil rays and two spotted eagle rays. A spectacled owl has been placed on exhibit in the small macaw aviary overlooking Mundo Maya, near the Mayan dancing stage. As has already been mentioned the jaguar exhibit has been refurbished and now houses ocelot, which is in my opinion a very good setup.
In Orinoco construction of some kind has begun in the space across from the golden lion tamarin exhibit. Green basilisk have gone on exhibit in place of the red tailed boa above the Orinoco crocodiles. In one of the small terrariums in the vampire bat cave, Amazon poison frogs, Ranitomaya amazonica, have gone on exhibit. In the small terrarium near the arowana pond, dyeing dart frogs have gone on exhibit. The giant wood rail in the anteater enclosure and the keel billed toucan in Cotinga Corner are no longer on exhibit.
In Mundo Maya, yapok have been placed back on exhibit. I only saw two of them, both very actively running/swimming around towards the closing time of the aquarium. The large cylindrical coral reef tank seen shortly after the Morelet's crocodiles has been completely redesigned and now houses three lesser devil rays and two spotted eagle rays. A spectacled owl has been placed on exhibit in the small macaw aviary overlooking Mundo Maya, near the Mayan dancing stage. As has already been mentioned the jaguar exhibit has been refurbished and now houses ocelot, which is in my opinion a very good setup.