Summer Holiday Day 19: Chester Zoo, part 3 - The Tropical House

The tropical house is like a zoo within a zoo, and it is easy too spend a huge amount of time in there. On my very first visit to the zoo in 1976 I even saw Eastern Lowland Gorilla here, with those enclosures now forming spacious hornbill aviaries. 

In its present manifestation it has a nocturnal Aye Aye enclosure, though the walkway to the raised aviaries is closed. Amazingly the Tuatara are still present and have even bred.

Parson's Chameleon. I even saw one of these use the famous projectile tongue to catch and eat a cricket.

South-eastern Girdled Lizard

Malagasy Collared Iguana

Parson's Chameleon

South-eastern Girdled Lizard

Yet more Parson's Chameleon

Tuatara

Very active Sunbitterns, with the male foraging for nesting material and presenting it to the female, before they mated.

Radiated Tortoise

Oustalet's Chameleon

Nicobar Pigeon

Madagascan Fody

Grey-capped Emerald Dove

Snowy-crowned Robin Chat

Wrinkled Hornbill (female top)

Javan Green Magpie

Blue-throated Piping Guan

White-napped Pheasant Pigeon with Mindano Bleeding Heart Dove

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Victoria Crowned Pigeon

Ranitomeya amizonica

Eastern Casque-headed Iguana

Golden Poison Frog

South-eastern Girdled Lizard

Mexican Leaf Frog

Rio Maranon Poison Dart Frog

San Marcos Redtail Splitfin

Spotted Strawberry Poison Frog

Blue Poison Dart Frog (subspecies of Dyeing Poison Dart Frog)

Mantella

 

Rio Cauca Caecilian