Today we went to Amazonia. Amazonia is an indoor rainforest.

A lady called Kerry took us on a tour around Amazonia. On the tour we saw lots of animals like frogs (Miss McLean is very scared of frogs!), anacondas, parrots, goeldi’s monkeys, lizards, piranhas, a tarantula, a toucan and macaws.

We went into the nocturnal area. There were animals inside who come out in the dark, so the nocturnal area was very gloomy. Inside we saw fruit bats, boa constrictors, scorpions and kinkajous.

After we had been on the tour we went into the handling room. In this room we were allowed to hold real rainforest and desert animals. First we held hissing cockroaches called Ralph. When the cockroaches are scared they hiss like a snake to scare their predators away. Cockroaches will eat anything they get the chance to – even smelly socks! Next we touched Bubbles the fat tailed gecko. Bubbles’ tail can come off if he wants to escape from a predator but it makes him poorly. Last but not least we held Ziggy the royal python. Ziggy can only eat things which will fit in his mouth. He killed his prey by strangling it – he was not a venomous snake. He has over 500 weak and bendy bones in his body so we had to be very careful and not squeeze him – we didn’t want to break any of his bones. We also got to pass around a snake skeleton in a box so we could see what Ziggy looks like inside. Kerry told Sofia and Greta that Cleopatra used to wear royal pythons as bracelets and that is how they got their name.

We went into the interactive room next with a lady called Amy. We played a game where we had to catch as many butterflies as we could. In the next game we had to make a big rainstorm by clapping our hands as much as we could. When we were done we saw some pictures of us playing the game. At the end, Amy told us that she heard us talking about the rainforest and deforestation. She said she had been working in Amazonia for four years and we gave the best facts she had ever heard!