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Papiliorama - Nocturama (Island)

The island in the centre of the Nocturama hall in the Papiliorama. On this island lives a group of lowland pacas (Cuniculus paca) while southern tamanduas (Tamandua tetradactyla) and Brazilian porcupines (Coendou prehensilis) inhabits the trees above. I actually saw a paca take a swim in the moat and had no idea they were such adept swimmers. The Nocturama is a quite unique nocturnal house consisting of a glass dome almost 40 meters in diameter and 14 meters tall. Its translucid roof filters daylight approximately a thousand times, thus creating an artificial moonlight. The free-ranging animals in here are consists of three species of bats: Seba’s short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata), pale spear-nosed bat (Phyllostomus discolor) and pallas long-tongued bat (Glossophaga soricina). Visitors actually have to be careful walking through here as the bats come VERY close, often grazing or crashing right into you. Papiliorama, July 2010.

Papiliorama - Nocturama (Island)
Toddy, 21 Mar 2012
    • Toddy
      The island in the centre of the Nocturama hall in the Papiliorama. On this island lives a group of lowland pacas (Cuniculus paca) while southern tamanduas (Tamandua tetradactyla) and Brazilian porcupines (Coendou prehensilis) inhabits the trees above. I actually saw a paca take a swim in the moat and had no idea they were such adept swimmers.

      The Nocturama is a quite unique nocturnal house consisting of a glass dome almost 40 meters in diameter and 14 meters tall. Its translucid roof filters daylight approximately a thousand times, thus creating an artificial moonlight.

      The free-ranging animals in here are consists of three species of bats: Seba’s short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata), pale spear-nosed bat (Phyllostomus discolor) and pallas long-tongued bat (Glossophaga soricina). Visitors actually have to be careful walking through here as the bats come VERY close, often grazing or crashing right into you.

      Papiliorama, July 2010.
      21 Mar 2012
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