Lizards and Snakes Alive at the Houston ZOO

[LadyViper]

www.hmns.org/exhibits/special_exhibits/lizardssnakes.asp?r=1
Lizards & Snakes: Alive!





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© D. Finnin/AMNH




September 21, 2007 - January 6, 2008

Lizards & Snakes: Alive! an engaging exhibition that features more than 60 live lizards and snakes from five continents, introduces visitors to a diversity of squamates—the group that includes legged and legless lizards, including snakes. Lizards & Snakes showcases live animals and their remarkable adaptations, including projectile tongues, deadly venom, amazing camouflage, and sometimes surprising modes of locomotion. Representing 26 species occurring in countries such as Australia, Cuba, Egypt, Guatemala, Kenya, Madagascar, Mexico, Sudan, and the United States, the specimens range from a four-inch Tropical Girdled Lizard to a fourteen-foot Burmese Python and are shown in re-created habitats complete with ponds, tree limbs, rock ledges, and live plants.

Lizards & Snakes: Alive! is organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, in collaboration with Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, and the San Diego Natural History Museum, with appreciation to Clyde Peeling’s Reptiland.
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Members $9

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Adults $15
Children, Seniors,
College Students* $12
School Groups $6
Groups of 20 or more $11
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[jamie]

is this at the houston zoo or the houston museum??

[LadyViper]

Museum

[gbcop]

I just got back from this exhibit and I must say.. If you haven't been yet, save your $15!!!! The $2 entrance fee to the green room at the ultimate reptile shop was 100x's better as well as probably 75% more animals!

Not to mention their animals are not missing limbs and fingers...

[LadyViper]

WoW, but I I am kinda surprised, the Houston Zoo had really setted up and I firgured those would be the animals used.

I know what you mean about the Green room...We have traveled to Zoos everywhere and think the same thing...Heck..even our collection is better than most.

Sorry to hear this was a waste...Thanks for the update.

[roger3]

I thought the exhibit was very nice.
Small but nice.

But not worth $15.

I would have loved it, if it was included with the amphibian exit or some other exhibit at the museum. But $15 per person for just this small exhibit was wayyyy to much money.

[gbcop]

I think your review summed it up better than mine.

I know the Houston Museum isn't by far one of the largest or best museums in the US, but come on.. This was a joke..