The last stop of this visit was at the Smithsonian National Zoo's Tropical Rainforest Complex called Amazonia. It's a wonderful immersive design with an occasional grand surprise. I will divide these images and observations into three parts.
You enter on the ground floor of two and get a first taste of the tropical jungle habitat that awaits you above in this large fish filled pool lined with tropical flora and even a few ducks. It's also possible to encounter a Roseate Spoonbill, but if not here, then perhaps somewhere else.
A beautiful Peacock Cichlid.
Amazon River Sting Ray
The child gives you a sense of the enormity of this Arowana.
A separate room full of aquariums is devoted to sharing many species of eels. Then it's up a spiral stairway to the multistory enclosed Rainforest where birds and even a couple of mammals roam freely as you enjoy them from the pathway.
Blue Tanager
Bolivian Grey Titi Monkey
There are waterfalls that fall gently into the river that you were just seeing through huge windows down below.
As promised...the Roseate Spoonbill watching from above.
The last stop of this visit was at the Smithsonian National Zoo's Tropical Rainforest Complex called Amazonia. It's a wonderful immersive design with an occasional grand surprise. I will divide these images and observations into three parts.
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