Spiders, piranhas & bats, oh my!

Hidden Amazon

Enter the Mysterious World of the Rainforest
Now you can discover the creatures that live under the canopy of a strange and primitive world in our brand new exhibit Hidden Amazon. It's a colorful world filled with creepy tarantulas, poisonous frogs, slithering snakes, fascinating piranha and soaring bats. Discover the animals that live in the Amazon by day and the mysterious creatures that emerge at night.

From the moment you walk through the archway, this incredible environment lifts you from reality into the Amazon, with it lush sights and intriguing sounds, making you feel that you have been transported into the rainforest, with surprises at every turn.

On your journey through the Amazon:

• Check out live piranhas and learn fact from fiction about these fascinating creatures
• Witness the intensity of an electric eel's electric discharge as it is measured by a voltage meter
• Examine the 10 inch goliath bird-eating tarantula
• Play with an interactive sound kiosk to hear real sounds made by the Amazonian wildlife
• Take an up-close look at the amazing colors of poison dart frogs
• Watch bats flying, roosting and feeding in the bat cave
• See lizards, iguanas, neon tetras, vampire tetras, stingrays and many more intriguing rainforest species

Hidden Amazon will show you what life is like in the dynamic environment of the Amazon and teach you about the importance of conserving a region critical to the health of our planet.