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| - wow I can't believe I didn't review this place yet! It's one of my favourite things to do. The tickets are regularly at $15 per adult, but they offer 2-for-1 deals on Groupon and such. Still at $15 (a movie ticket price), this is a fantastic 100% indoors zoo.
It's sort of like a giant pet store.
oh yes, did you know you can also visit fish stores (aquariums) and pet stores for fun. There are a few "other" pets stores if you do a quick search (pets like spiders, tree frogs, moss frog, snakes, and even anemone which is the home for nemo's aka clownfish). These are all free of course. But Reptilia is a tunnel FULL of reptiles. It is bigger than it looks, it's an endless tunnel of creatures.
Each of the animal's "home" is brightly lit, big (spacious), clean (especially the waters), the zoo does not smell, and there is no aggressive behaviour of any kind (probably meaning, these creatures are well-fed and happy).
As for the pedestrians' walkway, there is enough space for baby strollers to pass between wandering kids, the gawkers, and the Japanese-style tourists uh.. photographers.
Events we saw were:
- the feeding of the great Nile crocodile 1000lbs
- the feeding of the rattle snake (he was fed a dead rat)
- a talk about a snake, we caught the last 1 minute maybe. You can pet the snake and hold it. These talks happen quite often during the day, you can just wait around until they start again.
The photos usually won't turn out very nicely due to the glass, so please, move along.
The staff here is phenomenal. Do we have too many idiot kids and their parents? The staff handles these guys with so much patience, all day, every day. The zoo's feeding events are the closest way visitors can get to "interacting" with the reptiles. And with kids, dumb teens, and even arrogant duds throwing "omg are you kdding me" kind of questions, you will see how knowledgeable and passionate the staff is here at Reptilia.
I'm impressed! Thanks for existing!!!!
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