Diary notice: ZSL London Zoo new exhibit preview | Press Preview

March 22, 2010 - PRLog -- London’s only living rainforest, built by zookeepers and housed inside a giant bio-dome, will be a vast breeding facility for free-roaming monkeys, sloths, birds and bugs.

With real rain and living trees this tropical rainforest replica in the middle of London will be kept at a sweltering 80°F all year round.

Animals in the exhibit include golden-headed lion tamarins, sloths, emperor tamarins, red titi monkeys, birds and a tree anteater.

ZSL London Zoo, Outer Circle, Regent’s Park, London. Lynsey Ford, 020 7449 6288

*Please phone or email to indicate your attendance*

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Editor's Note

• See animals in a different light at Rainforest Life, ZSL London Zoo’s exciting new experience in Clore Rainforest Lookout, launching March 2010. Enter London’s only living rainforest where you’ll come face to face with a variety of amazing rainforest species including monkeys, sloth, armadillo and tamandua. Step out of the light and into the amazing Night Life experience, where you’ll discover the bats, rats and nocturnal wonders that call the dark their home.

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