Back by popular demand, Frogs: A Chorus of Colors, opens at the Museum on Saturday, May 28. Featuring more than 200 live frogs, from the tiny golden mantella frog to the enormous African bullfrog, this dynamic exhibition introduces visitors to these complex amphibians, their biology and evolution, their importance to ecosystems, and the threats they face in the wild.
In the video below, Associate Curator Christopher Raxworthy of the Museum’s Department of Herpetology discusses a few of the species featured in the exhibition and Hazel Davies, the Museum’s manager of Living Exhibits, shows the prep work and feeding that takes place every morning before visitors arrive.
Catch The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter, a live-animal exhibition where visitors can mingle with up to 500 butterflies among tropical flowers and vegetation, before it closes on Monday, May 30.
Watch as Hazel Davies, manager of Living Exhibits at the Museum, and Whitney Doreen Ortiz walk through the vivarium and interact with butterflies from around the world, including blue morphos, striking scarlet swallowtails, and large owl butterflies.
The butterflies are back! On October 16, The Butterfly Conservatory opens for the thirteenth year at the Museum. In a tropical vivarium filled with lush, blooming flowers, visitors can mingle with more than 500 live butterflies and get an up-close look at these brilliantly colored creatures.
In this video, Manager of Living Exhibits Hazel Davies and Whitney Doreen Ortiz tour the conservatory and examine some amazing butterflies and moths from around the world.
Watch as Hazel Davies, AMNH’s Manger of Living Exhibits, and Whitney Doreen Ortiz walk through the vivarium and interact with butterflies from around the world — blue morphos, striking scarlet swallowtails and large owl butterflies.
The American Museum of Natural History’s popular exhibit Frogs: A Chorus of Colors is open to visitors through January 3, 2010. There are more than 200 live frogs, from the tiny golden mantella frog to the enormous African bullfrog.
We followed Hazel Davies, AMNH’s Manager of Living Exhibits, as she prepped and fed the frogs before visitors arrived. And we caught up with Dr. Christopher Raxworthy, the Museum’s Associate Curator of Herpetology, to find out the role frogs play in our world.
