The Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Canada, has brought the Rain-forest indoors for the winter. Here are some frogs, snakes, iguanas and caimans that are commonly found in a rain forest.
Lets get the the snakes out of the way first. This powerful one, curled up in its water dish, reminds me of a cat curled up for an afternoon nap. Some prefer to hang out in the tree branches and take full advantage of their camouflage. Don’t let the name fool you.
Lets move on to something less threatening. How about some cute frogs.
Although this frog is described as gray and called milky because of a secretion it expels when threatened, the lighting showed it to definitely be green and some red lights made it look like a camelion changing colors.
Here is another cute green creature from the rain forest. This young one is a member of the lizard family but has the grand title of Dragon.
The iguana on display was much bigger and gave off a superior attitude.
Peeking out of the log below is a pair of shy little caimans. Their heads are at most two inches across, but they can grow up to five feet long and are still called dwarfs.
OK, time to go see what else is here.
We visited an indoor rain forest in a museum in Baltimore many years ago and it was fascinating. Then we visited a real rain forest in Belize. I preferred the one in Baltimore – no fire ants!
I went zip lining in a rain forest in Costa Rica. It was interesting to walk up the hill from below the forest into the trees where it became so humid it felt like it was raining. When we climbed father up towards the canopy we realize that it was not “raining” up there.
I guess this is a perfect thing to create if you have a leaky roof… but, seriously, this seems like a cool exhibit.
Thanks for the smile. It is actually a great place to warm up on a cold winter day.
The advantage of an indoor rainforest is it helps the uneducated understand what an actual rainforest is. It literally is the planet’s vital life force!
Thanks for the comment, and a museum is a great place for the uneducated to become informed. (Y)
How neat that you can visit the rain forest in the dead of winter inside! Awesome photos!!