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	Amazonia

November 18, 1992 - Permanent

Animals and plants of the New World are included in this rain forest habitat featuring a re-created microcosm of the world's largest rain forest and the Amazon River. Giant Amazon fish are a special feature.

Web: natzoo.si.edu/Animals/Amazonia/


	Asia Trail

October 17, 2006 - Permanent

This exhibition features Asian animals already living at the Zoo -- sloth bears, fishing cats, Asian small-clawed otters, and red pandas -- along with the endangered Japanese giant salamanders, a new species, and the clouded leopards, returning to the Zoo after several decades. Also featured are the beloved giant pandas (see separate listing).

Web: nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/AsiaTrail


	Bald Eagle Refuge

July 4, 2003 - Permanent

This exhibition features 2 bald eagles and includes information about the National Wildlife Refuge System sites. The nearby woodlands are planted to improve wildlife habitat and enhance the natural appearance of the refuge.

Web: nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/NorthAmerica/BaldEagleRefuge


	Bird House and the Great Outdoor Flight Cage

- Permanent

The National Zoo is home to hundreds of birds from all over the world. Since birds are an integral part of virtually every ecosystem, it's not surprising that birds are all over the Zoo, too, as residents and visitors.

• Bird House: The widest variety of birds at the Zoo live indoors at the Bird House where a series of smaller exhibits encircle a large indoor jungle complete with free-flying tropical birds.

Web: nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Birds/Exhibit


	Elephant House

- Permanent

The Elephant House was built in the 1930s and is undergoing renovation as part of Elephant Trails

Web: nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/AsianElephants/aeexhibit.cfm


	Giant Panda Habitat, Fujifilm

October 17, 2006 - Permanent

Father Tian Tian, mother Mei Xiang, and offspring Tai Shan can be seen in their newly expanded habitat wrestling in the grass, sleeping in a tree, munching on stalks of bamboo, or lounging in a misty grotto. This recent expansion doubles their outdoor area and includes 4 yards and 4 dens: Mother Mei Xiang and offspring Tai Shan share a yard and den while father Tian Tian has his own space.

Web: nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas


	Great Ape House

April 15, 1981 - Permanent

This exhibition is home to six western lowland gorillas, which may be seen outside in the yard or inside the Great Ape House. Six orangutans have access to the Great Ape House by using the aboveground O Line; for details, see Think Tank.

Web: nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Primates/Exhibits


	Great Cats (tigers)

October 1, 1998 - Permanent

This renovated exhibition includes new graphic panels, an education site for children to learn more about the Sumatran tiger, and an area featuring a bronzed Tyrannosaurus rex skull from the Museum of the Rockies. The renovated exhibition has been made more easily accessible to children and visitors with disabilities.

Web: natzoo.si.edu/Animals/GreatCats


	Invertebrates

May 7, 1987 - Permanent

Invertebrates -- creatures without backbones -- are the most abundant creatures on earth, crawling, flying, floating, or swimming in virtually all of Earth's habitats. About 99 percent of all known living species are invertebrates. The Zoo's Invertebrate Exhibit is home to such invertebrate species as sea stars; spiny lobsters; sea anemones; corals; worms; insects; spiders, including tarantulas, and mollusks, including a giant Pacific octopus.

Web: nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Invertebrates


	Kids' Farm

June 12, 2004 - Permanent

This child-friendly exhibition reveals that most of the food we eat comes from a farm and allows visitors to lend a hand around the farm.

Highlights include:
• A Play Area, featuring an oversize, climb-on pizza that connects familiar pizza ingredients with plants grown on a farm. The pizza garden includes tomatoes, herbs, garlic, onions, green peppers, and wheat. Note: Open weather permitting.
• The Barn gives visitors a view into how animals are housed and cared for.
• Goat and Miniature Donkey Yards, where visitors are able to touch the animals through the fence. The area also includes a Caring Corral, where children are invited inside to help take care of the animals.
• The Cow Pasture, where visitors are able to touch the animals when they approach the fence.

Web: nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/KidsFarm


	Lemur Island

October 18, 2001 - Permanent

This open-air exhibition is home to both ring-tailed (Lemur catta) and red-fronted (Eulemur fulvus rufus) lemurs. These prosimians -- a suborder of primates -- are found only on Madagascar, an island off the southeastern coast of Africa. Today's prosimians retain much of the appearance of the earliest primates. Like many other animal species, wild lemur populations are rapidly declining due to extensive habitat loss.

Web: nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Primates/MeetPrimates/MeetLemurs


	Pollinarium

April 19, 1996 - Permanent

Living plants, hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees are used to explore pollination -- the means of plant reproduction. The evolution, beauty, and mechanics of pollination are examined. The exhibition also includes a 7-foot tall, 3-panel, glass enclosed beehive.

Web: nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Invertebrates/Pollinarium


	Prairie Dog Playland

November 19, 2005 - Permanent

This prairie-dog-themed playground, designed for children ages 2-6, reveals a prairie-dog's perspective on survival. Children can crawl through a series of tubes that resemble prairie dogs' underground tunnels, can pop up "above ground," and can look through scopes to scan for large cutouts of such predators as black-footed ferrets and hawks.

Web: nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/NorthAmerica/Facts/fact-pdog.cfm


	Reptile Discovery Center

- Permanent

The Reptile Discovery Center -- an interactive, educational exhibition designed for visitors to explore the biology of reptiles and amphibians. The Center features some 70 species from snakes to frogs to turtles to lizards to crocodiles to Komodo dragons.

Web: nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ReptilesAmphibians/Exhibit


	Seals and Sea Lions

- Permanent

This exhibition is home to two species of pinnipeds: California sea lions and gray seals.

Web: nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/OceanLiving/Exhibits


	Small Mammal House

April 1, 1983 - Permanent Renovated 1983

Most species in the Zoo's Small Mammal House are no bigger than a breadbox. The exhibition features the golden lion tamarin, the fennec fox, the three-banded armadillo, the prehensile-tailed porcupine, naked mole-rats, tree shrews, meerkats, black-tailed prairie dogs, and a black-footed ferret.

Web: nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/SmallMammals


	Think Tank

October 27, 1995 - Permanent

This exhibition explores the biology and evolution of animal thinking, focusing on primates. It also demonstrates how animals use tools, send sophisticated messages, and employ social strategies. In conjunction with this exhibition is the O-Line, an orang utan transit system for orang utans to travel from the Great Ape House to Think Tank. As part of Think Tank, the Zoo is also working on the Orang utan Language Project to study communication between orang utans and humans.

Web: nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ThinkTank

Last update: May 7, 2008, 10:58


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