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Experience a 3-hour showcase of more than 16,000 animals including sharks, birds, frogs, turtles, dolphins, and jellies.

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Enjoy a 45-minute introduction of America's Aquatic Treasures featuring more than 1,500 animals including alligators, sharks, and turtles.

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Experience a 3-hour showcase of more than 16,000 animals including sharks, birds, frogs, turtles, dolphins, and jellies.

Wash, DCExplore: Washington, DC »

Enjoy a 45-minute introduction of America's Aquatic Treasures featuring more than 1,500 animals including alligators, sharks, and turtles.

Upland Tropical Rain Forest

Tropical birds fly, poison dart frogs hop, sloths hang, and golden lion tamarin monkeys scamper among thousands of rain forest plants. This world-renowned rain forest exhibit features a diverse collection of plants and animals from rapidly disappearing habitats.

Animals in This Exhibit

Blue Poison Dart Frog

This colorful frog was not discovered by scientists until 1968.
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Blue-Crowned Motmot

This bird has back and tail colors of green, olive, and blue. It has a wide black band through the eye.
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Golden Lion Tamarin

This tree-dwelling monkey has a small, rounded head surrounded by a thick, golden, lion-like mane.
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Linne’s Two-Toed Sloth

With two claws on the front feet and three on the back, Linne’s two-toed sloths are designed for an arboreal life. They move through the tree branches and even mate and give birth while hanging upside down.
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Scarlet Ibis

The scarlet ibis is hard to miss! Adults are bright red or scarlet, with somewhat lighter shading on the head, neck, and underparts.
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Screaming piha

The screaming piha is gray-brown in coloration. It’s loud call, used by males to attract a mate, is one of the most recognized sounds in the Amazon.
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Sunbittern

This slim, solitary bird has distinctive red eyes.
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Tarantula

Some tarantula species live in the trees, while others live in holes in the ground.
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Turquoise tanager

The turquoise tanager is a brightly colored bird with a strikingly blue face and breast and yellow or white underside.
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White-Tailed Trogon

White-tailed trogons are medium-sized, stout-bodied, perching birds with short necks, prominent eyes, and large square-tipped tails.
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Yellow-headed Amazon Parrot

This predominantly green parrot has a yellow head and a red patch, or speculum, on each wing.
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