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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
Largescale Four-eyed Fish 11
Anableps anableps
Boa constrictor constrictor
Anaconda 12
Eunectes murinus
Panaque nigrolineatus 13
Apistogramma eunotus 14
Mata Mata 15
Chelus fimbriatus
Cruziohyla calcarifer 16
Boatman frog 17
Trachycephalus resinifictrix
electric eel 18
Electrophorus electricus
Pirarucu 19
Arapaima gigas
Brycon 20
Chalceus macrolepidotus 21
black pacu 22
Colossoma macropomum
Leporinus fasciatus 23
Atlantic Tarpon 24
Megalops atlanticus
Pacu 25
Metynnis argenteus
Myleus rubripinnis 26
Myloplus rubripinnis
silver arowana 22
Osteoglossum bicirrhosum
ripsaw catfish 27
Oxydoras niger
redtail catfish 28
Phractocephalus hemioliopterus
Arrau 29
Podocnemis expansa
Semaprochilodus taeniurus 30
Xingu River Ray 25
Potamotrygon leopoldi
Corydoras 31
Neon 32
Paracheirodon axelrodi
Common Water Monitor 33
Varanus salvator
Orthriophis taeniurus ridleyi 34
Wagler's pit viper 22
Tropidolaemus wagleri
Brachydanio 35
Carinotetraodon 13
Danio 36
Danio choprae 31
Epalzeorhynchos bicolor 37
Macropodus opercularis 38
Puntius 39
Puntius titteya 39
Rasbora borapetensis
Rasbora pauciperforata 40
Trigonostigma espei 41
Trigonostigma heteromorpha 42
Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki 41
River Toad 22
Phrynoidis aspera
Red-tailed Green Ratsnake 43
Gonyosoma oxycephalum
Hylarana 44
Peter's Tree Frog 45
Nyctixalus pictus
File-Eared Tree Frog 46
Polypedates otilophus
Gliding gecko 22
Ptychozoon kuhli
Paradise Flying Snake 47
Chrysopelea paradisi
Cope's Vine Snake 39
Oxybelis brevirostris
Golfo Dulce Poison-Dart Frog 17
Phyllobates vittatus
Allobates 39
Stream Anole 48
Anolis oxylophus
Harlequin Treefrog 39
Dendropsophus ebraccatus
Granular Poison Frog 46
Oophaga granulifera
Grainy Cochran Frog 49
Cochranella granulosa
Cochranella spinosa 39
Teratohyla spinosa
Dart Poison Frog 50
Dendrobates auratus
Striped Poison-Dart Frog 51
Phyllobates lugubris
Dendrobates pumilio 52
Oophaga pumilio
Chicken Snake 53
Spilotes pullatus
Madagascar Leaf-nosed Snake 54
Langaha madagascariensis
Gottlebe's Narrow-mouthed Frog 55
Scaphiophryne gottlebei
Oustalet's Giant Chameleon 56
Furcifer oustaleti
Blaesodactylus sakalava 14
Panther Chameleon 57
Furcifer pardalis
Katria katria 14
Pollenbuntbarsch 58
Paratilapia polleni
Paretroplus menarambo 59
Ptychochromis 60
Ptychochromis grandidieri 61
Bedotia 62
Bedotia madagascariensis 14
Pachypanchax patriciae 14
Heterixalus madagascariensis 22
Baron's Mantella 63
Mantella baroni
Yellow-headed Day Gecko 39
Phelsuma klemmeri
Malagasy Tree Boa 63
Sanzinia madagascariensis
Brookesia 54
Golden Mantella 46
Mantella aurantiaca
Dyscophus guineti 64
Madagascar Day Gecko 65
Phelsuma grandis
Giant leaf-tail gecko 63
Uroplatus fimbriatus
Heterixalus alboguttatus
Green Mantella 55
Mantella viridis
Banded Day Gecko 66
Phelsuma standingi
Henkel's Leaf-tailed Gecko 67
Uroplatus henkeli

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