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Bronx Zoo's fascinating World of Darkness exhibit reopens after 16-year hiatus
Bronx Zoo's fascinating World of Darkness exhibit reopens after 16-year hiatus

New York Post

time20-07-2025

  • Entertainment
  • New York Post

Bronx Zoo's fascinating World of Darkness exhibit reopens after 16-year hiatus

The spotlight is back on New York's darkest exhibit. World of Darkness, the Bronx Zoo's 'groundbreaking' shadowy attraction showcasing more than two dozen rare and unusual nocturnal animals, is back after a 16-year hiatus. 4 World of Darkness, the Bronx Zoo's 'groundbreaking' shadowy attraction showcasing animals such as the sand cat (above), is back after a 16-year hiatus. Terria Clay / Bronx Zoo The revamped exhibit, which opened to the public Saturday, offers a glimpse into the behaviors and adaptations of 25 species across the world, from two-toed sloths and cloud rats to sand cats and vampire bats. Entry to the 13,000-square-foot, 21-habitat exhibit is included with the purchase of a Bronx Zoo ticket. 4 Aye-ayes also are part of the exhibit. Bronx Zoo 'The opening of the new World of Darkness will once again provide Bronx Zoo visitors with a unique immersion experience to observe amazing creatures that have evolved to live and thrive in darkness,' said Bronx Zoo Director and Wildlife Conservation Society Executive Vice President of Zoos & Aquarium Jim Breheny in a statement. The first World of Darkness exhibit at the zoo opened in 1969. It served as the first major zoo exhibit to feature nocturnal animals in a 'reverse light cycle' so that onlookers could watch the nocturnal world in action during daytime hours, officials said. The new modernized exhibit – the first iteration since the original closed in April 2009 because of financial issues – will continue on the legacy of creative lighting design, zoo officials said, with a new set of programmable LED lighting systems that simulate 'soft' sunrise and sunset transitions. 4 The modernized exhibit features creative lighting designs, zoo officials said. Bronx Zoo The 'reimagined' nocturnal house also offers 'immersive soundscapes, interactive elements, and meticulously recreated habitats' from tropical forests and wetlands to deserts and caves, the zoo said. Visitors can expect hands-on educational consoles, outdoor photo-op stations and up-close views of blood pythons, tarantulas and naked mole rats. The exhibit also serves as the zoo's only permanent bilingual attraction, with all signage, graphics and interactive elements in both English and Spanish. 4 A broad-snouted Caiman lays in wait at the Bronx Zoo's World of Darkness exhibit. Julie Larsen / Bronx Zoo The revitalized exhibit also features species rarely seen in zoos, including cloud rats, fat-tailed leumurs, and Guatemalan beaded lizards. 'Many New Yorkers have great memories of the exhibit which originally opened in 1969,' Breheny said, adding the zoo has 'updated all aspects of the experience to ensure an amazing opportunity to enter a shadowy world rarely seen.'

Week in wildlife: a leopard cat, a vulture puppet and a hare playing hide and seek
Week in wildlife: a leopard cat, a vulture puppet and a hare playing hide and seek

The Guardian

time02-05-2025

  • Science
  • The Guardian

Week in wildlife: a leopard cat, a vulture puppet and a hare playing hide and seek

A leopard cat searches for prey along a stream in Gangneung, South Korea. The wild cat is about the same size as a domestic cat, but slimmer, with longer legs, webbed toes and a melancholic expression Photograph: Yonhap/EPA A bearded tit shows off its resplendent 'whiskers' as it perches in the reeds in the Lake Mogan, Turkey Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images A baby vulture at a New York zoo is fed by hand puppet at the Bronx zoo, New York, US. King vultures can neglect their chicks, so hand-feeding is necessary to ensure the baby survives, but staff disguise themselves to ensure the birds don't bond with their human carers Photograph: Terria Clay/AP A newborn Pere David's deer staggers to its feet at Knowsley safari park in Prescot, UK. The species is classified as extinct in the wild by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), but some survive in captivity thanks to international cooperation and breeding programmes like the one at Knowsley Photograph: Jennifer Hoggarth/SWNS A scintillating green dung beetle on a leaf in the Amazon region, Ecuador Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Double helping … a great egret feeds her chick at the St Augustine alligator farm zoological park, Florida, US Photograph: Ronen Tivony/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock Ready or not … a wild hare looks to be playing a game of hide and seek with a pheasant on a warm day in Kidderminster, UK Photograph: Lee Hudson/Alamy Live News Two roseate spoonbills squabble at the St Augustine alligator farm zoological park's bird rookery in Florida, US Photograph: Zuma/Alamy Live News Black rhinos graze near an elevated railway in Nairobi national park, Kenya. The track was built to allow animals to move freely beneath it without risk of harm Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images Black-winged stilts (related to avocets) fly over Lake Mogan in Turkey Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images An Anatolia newt (or Strauch's spotted newt), a type of salamander, lurks in a stream in eastern Turkey. It is a rare species, not found in any other countries; dedicated newt-fanciers make special trips to the area in hope of seeing it Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images White storks gather on their nest near a coal-fired power plant Obilić, Kosovo Photograph: Valdrin Xhemaj/Reuters Cleared for takeoff … a hare sits on the tarmac at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany Photograph: Michael Probst/AP An Iberian lynx bounds free in Astudillo, northern Spain, after being released by a specialist conservation centre based in Silves, Portugal. It's one of two female lynx being let out into the wild, named Vouga and Valeriana Photograph: César Manso/AFP/Getty Images A roe deer in a dew-covered field at dawn in Dunsden Green, Oxfordshire, UK Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Rex/Shutterstock A red fox vixen sleeps curled up in the early morning sun in a garden in Clapham, south London, UK Photograph: Anna Watson/Alamy Live News With anchovies, please … a gull sits on top of a car outside a cafe near the Vatican City Photograph:Water buffalo swim in the waters of Iraq's receding marshes of Hawizeh, which straddle the border with Iran, in the southeastern Maysan province Photograph: Asaad Niazi/AFP/Getty Images Gannets and other seabirds crowd in breeding colonies on the cliffs at St Abb's Head national nature reserve, near Eyemouth, Scotland. The RSPB and other conservation bodies have raised concerns over the threat to seabirds posed by the proposed Berwick Bank wind farm development in the Forth Estuary Photograph:A hummingbird and a bee sip nectar from violet flowers called Pride of Madeira, shaped like a Christmas tree, in Santa Barbara, California, US Photograph: Zuma Press/Alamy Live News

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