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My favorite part of the Denver Zoo is the Tropical Discovery building. It houses most of the reptiles and amphibians at the zoo, as well as the fish. There are a few other animals in Tropical Discovery as well, but for the most part it's my cold-blooded friends.
I was very taken with the teeny tiny mushrooms on the branch. (And of course, the teeny tiny frogs.)
Vietnamese mossy frog. It sure is!
Spotted ray. :) And a spotted fish.
Posing nicely for a closeup.
Monkey frogs. They look so serious!
Golden frogs. They're very endangered in the wild, so glad to get to see them here.
So cute!
I love how unique all of their markings are. None of them look the same!
King cobra. :)
Intense eyes.
Gaboon viper. This one made me laugh, because Alex was looking at it and then said "It's weird that he has his head under a leaf." I looked for a second and said, "Wait, his head is the leaf!" Camouflage be camouflaging!
A few resident mammals. Capybaras! (They are very friend-shaped.)
And a monkey!
One of my favorites. It looks like a little dragon!
Upside-down jellies, and the prettiest opal fish.
Not a "good" picture, but it made me laugh. The instant I got my camera up, he spun to look at me, haha.
Such a stunning pattern on this guy!
Pretty angel.
I know lionfish are pests, but damn they're pretty.
Clownfish and anemone.
Nice big eastern diamondback.
Absolutely massive alligator snapping turtle. This guy standing up like this is between four and five feet tall! (Shortly after this there were several kids who came up and were very excited to get their pictures taken in front of the turtle.)
Boreal toads! :D They're native here, but very endangered in Colorado. The Denver Zoo does a lot of conservation work with them, and has done several big releases of captive-bred populations into the mountains.
(I shared that field note at Roxborough where someone said they'd seen a boreal toad on the trail there (cute!), but they're rare enough it seems more likely they saw a woodhouse toad.)
This is Maple. She's a baby pancake tortoise! Another endangered species, and it was quite exciting when she hatched this year.
Komodo dragon! SO BIG!
Serious side-eye.
Lake Titicaca frogs, my beloved weirdos. (Extremely endangered, glad this is one of the few facilities that has a breeding population!)
I'm glad we spent a decent amount of time going through. The way we typically loop through, this building comes toward the end of our visit, and we often have to rush through the last bits of it as we approach closing time. It was nice to do it toward the beginning... even though it wound up being most of the day!
Hopefully we'll go back fairly soon to catch the things we missed on this trip.
I was very taken with the teeny tiny mushrooms on the branch. (And of course, the teeny tiny frogs.)
Vietnamese mossy frog. It sure is!
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Spotted ray. :) And a spotted fish.
Posing nicely for a closeup.
Monkey frogs. They look so serious!
Golden frogs. They're very endangered in the wild, so glad to get to see them here.
So cute!
I love how unique all of their markings are. None of them look the same!
King cobra. :)
Intense eyes.
Gaboon viper. This one made me laugh, because Alex was looking at it and then said "It's weird that he has his head under a leaf." I looked for a second and said, "Wait, his head is the leaf!" Camouflage be camouflaging!
A few resident mammals. Capybaras! (They are very friend-shaped.)
And a monkey!
One of my favorites. It looks like a little dragon!
Upside-down jellies, and the prettiest opal fish.
Not a "good" picture, but it made me laugh. The instant I got my camera up, he spun to look at me, haha.
Such a stunning pattern on this guy!
Pretty angel.
I know lionfish are pests, but damn they're pretty.
Clownfish and anemone.
Nice big eastern diamondback.
Absolutely massive alligator snapping turtle. This guy standing up like this is between four and five feet tall! (Shortly after this there were several kids who came up and were very excited to get their pictures taken in front of the turtle.)
Boreal toads! :D They're native here, but very endangered in Colorado. The Denver Zoo does a lot of conservation work with them, and has done several big releases of captive-bred populations into the mountains.
(I shared that field note at Roxborough where someone said they'd seen a boreal toad on the trail there (cute!), but they're rare enough it seems more likely they saw a woodhouse toad.)
This is Maple. She's a baby pancake tortoise! Another endangered species, and it was quite exciting when she hatched this year.
Komodo dragon! SO BIG!
Serious side-eye.
Lake Titicaca frogs, my beloved weirdos. (Extremely endangered, glad this is one of the few facilities that has a breeding population!)
I'm glad we spent a decent amount of time going through. The way we typically loop through, this building comes toward the end of our visit, and we often have to rush through the last bits of it as we approach closing time. It was nice to do it toward the beginning... even though it wound up being most of the day!
Hopefully we'll go back fairly soon to catch the things we missed on this trip.
