🦎🌊 Rush in to the Reptile Discovery Center to see the second-largest amphibian on earth—the Japanese giant salamander! A brand-new exhibit brings visitors face-to-face with these curious and charismatic creatures. To replicate the salamanders’ riparian homes, their Zoo habitat includes a rocky riverbed as well as nooks and crannies where the animals lay eggs and nest in the wild. The Zoo’s salamanders arrived in 2009 from the Asa Zoo in Hiroshima, Japan, and ever since it has been a goal of th

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