Word: madagascars
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...less. But the city's zoo on Zurichbergstrasse is a tropical jungle all year round. The 10,000-sq-m greenhouse is one of the world's largest man-made rain forests: its humidity and temperature faithfully re-create the climate and ecosystem of the endangered rain forest on Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula...
...project boasts such high-tech features as light-sensitive roof foil that maintains high temperature and humidity, a waterfall and man-made rain from sprinklers pouring up to 80,000 liters of water a day. Some 17,000 species of plants and 2,500 trees were brought in from Madagascar...
Spotting a lemur - an endangered primate indigenous to Madagascar - is a matter of luck; you have a better chance of seeing one in the morning before they retreat to an island built on an artificial lake. After all, as in any jungle, the idea is to try to see the animals in their natural habitat, rather than their cages. But even if you don't get to see the elusive lemur, you may encounter one of over 100 other animals living among the lush vegetation, such as the grey mouse maki, the aye-aye, the tree boa or the girdled...
...project boasts such high-tech features as light-sensitive roof foil that maintains high temperature and humidity, a waterfall and man-made rain from sprinklers pouring up to 80,000 liters of water a day. Some 17,000 species of plants and 2,500 trees were brought in from Madagascar...
...less. But the city's zoo on Zurichbergstrasse is a tropical jungle all year round. The 10,000-sq-m greenhouse is one of the world's largest man-made rain forests: its humidity and temperature faithfully re-create the climate and ecosystem of the endangered rain forest on Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula...