Underwater views of Animals in Zoos

Here's a photo of Auckland Zoo's only mammal exhibit with underwater viewing...

Auckland Zoo - Photo Gallery

It is the small clawed otter exhibit and it only opened in Jan 2008...

It seems they got it wrong (or didn't bother) with the filtration system because the water was only clear for about two weeks and has looked like this ever since...
 
Underwater viewing

Wellington Zoo has part of its otter enclosure as underwater viewing ...
but I am sure that this will be quite common in many other zoos as well ?
 
The toronto zoo does, it also has numorous other underwater viewings! Including Otters, and beavers
As well as the Minnisota Zoo in the new Grizzly Coast Exhibit!
 
Wild hippos underwater can be seen at Mzima Springs in Kenya. Actually, hippos rarely come close to the viewing pavillon, but big fish are always there.
 
I can remember a few off the top of my head. New Orleans had either a slender snouted croc or a false gharial in an underwater enclosure inside it's reptile building. Most of the viewable portion of the exhibit is submerged. Cincinnati has puffins and auklets that jump from fake rock cliffs into their viewable pool. The Shedd Aquarium has some cool underwater displays for non-fish in the Amazon rising section. Anacondas have a deep pool here where they spend a lot of time. My favorite exhibit there is the Caiman lizard exhibit where these guys swim in deep water and look for snails. They're a really fun lizard to watch. I ve also seen the well known grizzly exhibit in Seattle where the bears can be seen stalking the fish. The Downtown Aquarium in Denver had an underwater viewing exhibit for Sumatran tigers. I thought tigers were a pretty unique animal to display in an aquarium.
Hopefully I'll get to see the new Madagascar building at the Bronx in a couple of weeks. Their site has a webcam showing an underwater section in the new nile croc enclosure. That looks like a big croc in there!
 
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Currently, the NOLA Zoo keeps two Chinese Alligators (sepertated from each other) there. The Tomistomas are kept outside.
 
I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to add that the Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, NY has had an underwater viewing of their polar bears for over a decade. It's quite nice to be in the building have underwater viewing of Polar Bears on your left and California Sea Lions on your right.

And I'm sure since the last post there have been zoos that have modified their Polar Bear exhibits for underwater viewing.
 
My two cents: in Valencia, common hippos, see:
http://yfrog.com/ncbi0402380200j
and Nile crocodiles (and shell-soft turtle and loads of fishes)at the 'kitum cave' in Bioparc and in the Ocenografic walruses, belugas, bottle noose dolphins and harbour seals.
 
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