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Giraffe
House
The African-style
Giraffe House is
the oldest house
(1871–2). Visitors
enjoy watching
the giraffes as
they nibble the
leaves of a tree
or bend down, in
slow motion, to
take a drink.
Nocturnal Animal House
This house, in the cellar of the Predatory Animal
House, houses the creatures of the night, including
nocturnal reptiles and birds. Here you can admire
striped bandicoots, fruit bats and slender loris.
Asleep during the day, their hearing is outstanding
and their eyes may light up uncannily in the dark.
Elephant House
These good-natured
pachyderms have a
healthy appetite: fullygrown
male Indian
elephants devour up to
50 kg (110 lb) of hay a
day! Four elephants have
been born in captivity.
Aviaries
Nowhere else in the
city can you hear such
singing, tweeting and
whistling – cockatiels,
birds-of-paradise, parrots,
hornbills and hummingbirds
sound off in the
Bird House aviaries.
Aquarium
The greatest draw in the aquarium,
where Caribbean and Amazonian habitats
have been recreated, are the blacktip
reef sharks and green morays. The electric
eel, able to generate up to 800 volts,
and the sting-rays are also popular.
Aquarium: www.aquarium-berlin.de
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890 Crocodile Hall
Not for the fainthearted:
in the crocodile
hall visitors cross a small
wooden footbridge, only
2 m (6 ft) above the dozing
creatures. The reptiles
are fed their meat every
other Monday at 3:30pm.
Amphibians’ Section
Poisonous snakes, bird spiders
and reptiles as well as other amphibians
crawl and slither around behind
glass on the second floor of the
aquarium. A particularly spectacular
event is the feeding of the spiders.
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