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Rainforests of the World Visitors can experience four diverse rainforest environments in a vast glass dome: the Amazonian Flooded Forest, the Borneo Forest Floor, the Madagascar Rainforest Understory, and the Costa Rica Rainforest Canopy. This includes a diverse range of creatures: piranhas, flying lizards, poison- dart frogs, parrots, geckos, chameleons, and butterflies.

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