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California Academy of Sciences, Rainforest Gallery

Step inside a living 4-story rainforest, where dripping water sets the beat for a symphony of croaking frogs and chirping birds. Meet chameleons from Madagascar, climb into the treetops of Costa Rica to find free flying birds and butterflies. Finally, descend in a glass elevator into the ...more ↓

Bananaquit 1
Coereba flaveola
Red-legged Honeycreeper 2
Cyanerpes cyaneus
Violaceous Euphonia 3
Euphonia violacea
Silver-beaked Tanager 4
Ramphocelus carbo
Saffron Finch 5
Sicalis flaveola
Burnished-buff Tanager 6
Tangara cayana
Blue-necked Tanager 7
Tangara cyanicollis
Bay-headed Tanager 8
Tangara gyrola
Turquoise Tanager 9
Tangara mexicana
Blue-gray Tanager 10
Thraupis episcopus
Naphila clavipes 11
Largescale Four-eyed Fish 12
Anableps anableps
Boa constrictor constrictor
Carnegiella strigata 13
Ctenobrycon spilurus 14
Anaconda 15
Eunectes murinus
Phobobates trivittatus 16
Satanoperca leucosticta 17
Corydoras sterbai 18
Panaque nigrolineatus 19
Pterophyllum altum 20
Apistogramma eunotus 21
Mata Mata 22
Chelus fimbriatus
Cruziohyla calcarifer 23
Boatman frog 24
Trachycephalus resinifictrix
electric eel 25
Electrophorus electricus
Exodon paradoxus 26
Monocirrhus polyacanthus 22
Anostomus anostomus 27
Pirarucu 28
Arapaima gigas
Brycon 29
Chalceus macrolepidotus 30
black pacu 31
Colossoma macropomum
Heros appendiculatus 32
Hypselecara coryphaenoides 32
Leporinus fasciatus 33
Atlantic Tarpon 34
Megalops atlanticus
Pacu 35
Metynnis argenteus
Myleus rubripinnis 36
Myloplus rubripinnis
silver arowana 31
Osteoglossum bicirrhosum
ripsaw catfish 37
Oxydoras niger
Perrunichthys perruno 38
redtail catfish 39
Phractocephalus hemioliopterus
Arrau 40
Podocnemis expansa
Semaprochilodus taeniurus 41
Hemigrammus bleheri 42
Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae 43
Xingu River Ray 35
Potamotrygon leopoldi
Pyrrhulina filamentosa 21
Corydoras 44
Corydoras aeneus 45
Hemiancistrus triradiatus 21
Hypancistrus zebra 46
Nannostomus beckfordi 45
Nannostomus eques 47
Nannostomus mortenthaleri 27
Otocinclus affinis 48
Neon 49
Paracheirodon axelrodi
Hormiga arriera 50
Atta cephalotes
Common Water Monitor 51
Varanus salvator
Hierodula membranacea 52
Orthriophis taeniurus ridleyi 53
Wagler's pit viper 31
Tropidolaemus wagleri
Atyopsis moluccensis 54
Brachydanio 55
Caridina 56
Carinotetraodon 19
Crossocheilus siamensis 57
Danio 58
Danio choprae 44
Epalzeorhynchos bicolor 59
Macropodus opercularis 45
Puntius 27
Puntius rhomboocellatus 60
Puntius titteya 27
Rasbora borapetensis
Rasbora pauciperforata 61
Trichogaster leerii 62
Trichogaster microlepis 63
Trigonostigma espei 64
Trigonostigma heteromorpha 65
Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki 64
River Toad 31
Phrynoidis aspera
Red-tailed Green Ratsnake 66
Gonyosoma oxycephalum
Hylarana 67
Peter's Tree Frog 68
Nyctixalus pictus
File-Eared Tree Frog 69
Polypedates otilophus
Gliding gecko 31
Ptychozoon kuhli
Rhacophorus 70
Paradise Flying Snake 71
Chrysopelea paradisi
Cucaracha gigante 72
Blaberus giganteus
rhinoceros katydid 73
Copiphora rhinoceros
Golden Silk Orb-weaver 74
Nephila clavipes
Cope's Vine Snake 27
Oxybelis brevirostris
Golfo Dulce Poison-Dart Frog 24
Phyllobates vittatus
Allobates 27
Stream Anole 75
Anolis oxylophus
Harlequin Treefrog 27
Dendropsophus ebraccatus
Granular Poison Frog 69
Oophaga granulifera
Grainy Cochran Frog 76
Cochranella granulosa

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