App 50 km from where I live there is a small city called Randers.
People have probably lived here since the stone age, but it is still only a city with 60.000 citicens.
So app 15 years ago, when some enthusiast collectors of reptiles and snakes declared they would make a "rainforest" , we all thought they had gone mad !
But they have made a wonderful place out of it. You can see pictures of it from outside here :
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]You can click on English text, but there are no pictures.
Yesterday afternoon my son and I decided to go have a look. On a Fridey there probably wouldn`t be many visitors. We have not been there for perhaps 5 - 6 years, and we were enormously pleasantly surprised how it had developed.
Here are some pictures we took. I am sorry for the poor quality, the light was not good, some of the animals were behind glass - and I completely forgot to take pictures of all the incredibly handsome snakes, - all I could do was stare !
But some pictures did come out of it
The first one we met was this wonderful, fuzzy guy . Does anyone know the name of the species ?
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]He and his family seemed to find us just as entertaining as we found them, the little boy here was very interesting
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]It was almost impossible to take pictures through glass, but even if it is a lousy picture, I can`t resist showing you thi HUGE black piranha. They lived happyly together with a lot of other fish and two large, fat manatees
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]There were all sorts of lovely birds flying and hopping and waddling round between us :
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Leaf-cutting ants. They cut neat bits of leaves from a place especially made for them, and carried them along a rope, through tubes and down to their home far down in a tunnel. There was glass so we could see how they were tending their ”gardens” of little fungus !
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Leguans, I think, basking in the brances
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Huge crocs in ponds :
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Croc-babies
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]A little flock of porcupines
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The most beautyful little monkey, - a sort of tamarin ?
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Oooooh, and lovely, beautyful colobus-monkeys !!!
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]I have read that they are very difficult to keep in captivity, but these also had a baby borne in April !
And Aardwarks !
I think I took 20 pictures, but they expertly turned their fat behinds to me at the split second I pressed the button
At last, however I managed to cheat one of them
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]But perhaps the most lovely of them all : A prevost`s Squirrel
I have so often admired this gorgeous beautyful creature on pictures, but there he was, havving his afternoon tea right in fromt of us
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]My son expertly snatched the camera from me and even made a small video .
If you click the little square at the bottom right of the picture, you can see the lovely critter full screen
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