Upland Tropical Rainforest

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The Upland Tropical Rain Forest exhibit is located at the top of the building. This level is like the Amazon Forest where the temperature is over eighty five degrees. This is a great way to introduce people, young and old, to the unlikeness of this type of ecosystem. Observation decks and pathways allow visitors to travel through the humid exhibit to catch a glimpse of dazzlingly colored birds, turtles, lizards, even sloths hanging on the trees. The guests are amazed by the creatures beauty and diversity. Tropical birds fly, poison dart frogs hop, piranhas swim, and tamarind monkeys scamper among thousands of rain forest plants in this jungle habitat, situated under a towering glass pyramid that is an icon of Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Tiny

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