Zoo View, Habitat House
One of my "When I'm bored things" things that I do is try to envision and semi plan out zoo exhibits. I don't rely on what animals may or may not be allowed in zoos or what you might typically see housed in zoos. It's whatever I feel works in a certain exhibit. Actually started doing this with a friend, who suggested that we try it, it stuck. I thought I would share with you some of those ideas.
So this exhibit is called the Habitat house as it saw above, and it's purpose is to teach the visitor about the different biomes around the world. I'm hoping it that there are 11 ecosystems ( habitats ) in this building. Each room is a different ecosystem. So the first room is the rainforest. This exhibit features live plants that one would find in a rainforest. More importantly it houses animals. Featured in this exhibit are freshwater stingrays ( which come from the amazon river ), Golden lion tamarins ( Amazon or around there ), two green iguanas, and of course a goliath bird eating spider. Next is the mountain exhibit, and I have to say it was hard to come up with animals for this exhibit. Anyway, this exhibit is home to Chincillas and Pika. It also teaches the visitors about mountains and features scaled versions of the tallest mountains in the world. As well as shows the various zones found on a mountain. The next exhibit area is the ocean. It's home to a touch tank, a coral reef tank, jellyfish, anemones with a resident clownfish or two, and a frogfish. Our next stop is the swamp. Here you'll find North American Alligators, an alligator snapping turtle, water moccasins, and apple snails. In our next exhibit area, we look at the grasslands. You'll see just way those grasses are an important part of these environments. Here you'll see prairie dogs, burrowing owls, and black-footed ferrets. The cave takes the visitors into total darkness. In one area, a river flows through the cave, it's home to blind crayfish. It's also home to olms ( a type of cave salamander from Europe ), Texas blind salamander, oilbirds, and cavefish. Our next exhibit features the rivers. Here visitors will see spiny softshell turtles, channel catfish, and paddlefish. The lake is home to lake perch, freshwater jellyfish, as well as hydra ( a freshwater relative of the jellyfish ). The desert exhibit is home to Western diamondback rattlesnakes, gila monsters, fennec foxes, and of course desert hairy scorpions. The Polar exhibit is home to chinstrap penguins, harp seals, leopard seals, and a puffin exhibit. Last but not least, the deciduous forest is home to Virginia opossums, hognose snakes, and red-headed woodpeckers.
Remember that I talked about animals that you normally don't see in exhibits, I want you to try and figure out which ones you wouldn't typically see in zoos or aquariums. There maybe only one.
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