The Tropic Zone offers a two
tiered
rain forest exhibit with twisting vines
and waterfalls to make it all the more
realistic. There birds of various species
including Turquoise Tanagers, Saffron
Finches, Fairy Bluebirds, Sun Bitterns,
Violet Turacos and Rodrigues fruit bats
and others fly freely in the hot steamy
environment. A larger glassed in exhibit
with a rocky mountainous terrain is home
to the long haired Colobus monkeys.
It is accompanied there by smaller exhibits
of toucans, pythons geckos, piranhas,
small alligators, bats and many other
small tropical animals. The Black Lion
Tamarin monkeys of the Brazilian rain
forest once thought to be extinct until
they were rediscovered in 1970 have their
own smaller habitat on the second tier
which they share with the Golden headed
and Cotton-top Tamarin.
