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Taken in the Desert Dome at the Omaha Zoo. I thought he had a "mysterious" look to him. Figured it was a much better title than "Big Fat Silly Looking Bird" that my 3 year old kept calling it.
If anyone can positively identify please have at it. I'll add to description and tag.
The butterfly on the left with the yellow colors in it is called the Heliconius ismenius or Tiger Heliconian butterflies. They are said to be very prevalent in Ecuador and Venezuela and a few countries north in Central America.
The second butterfly is a Heliconuis melpomene found in Central and northern South America.
The plant is in the Euphorbia family, possible a Jatropha.
Photo taken at the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, located in Omaha Nebraska.
It is native to humid evergreen forests in the American tropics, from extreme eastern Mexico locally to Amazonian Peru and Brazil, in lowlands up to 500 meters (at least formerly up to 1000m). It has been widely extirpated by habitat destruction and capture for the pet trade. Formerly it ranged north to southern Tamaulipas. It can still be found on the island of Coiba. It is also the Honduran national bird.
The walk-thru tunnel in the Scott Aquarium at the Henry Doorly Zoo, Omaha, Nebraska. In this tank you can see sharks, turtles, rays, and various assorted fish; there's even a nook where the lobster hang out. (hand-held exposure)
The Mueller's Gibbon (Hylobates muelleri) is found in the Tropical Rainforest of Borneo in Southeast Asia. These little gibbons are around 2 feet tall and weight up to 12.5 pounds. They can live to be 40 years old. It seems like many animals have some interest in learning about other animals, sometimes especially those wacky humans....
Photo taken at the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, located in Omaha Nebraska.
The Desert Dome, Omaha's (Nebraska, USA) Henry Doorly Zoo
Mirror of original image for better use as a desktop image
Officially cropped. Original image can be found in comment below.
The Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo is one of the most family friendly tourist destination in the entire country, and after visiting you will figure out why. Where else can you stroll through the world's largest man-made jungle, view sharks and other deep sea inhabitants through a glass-enclosed, walk-through tunnel, take a Lozier IMAX Theatre adventure to the top of Mt. Everest, and view hundreds of birds flying freely in a mesh aviary the size of four football fields?
Look closely for the second gorilla's face. These two gorillas appear to be familial close, if not siblings, since there was an adult female off-screen to the left that might be their mother.
The larger gorilla's facial expression (this photo) might be described as similar to his relative, the human.
This photo was taken in the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska.
A cockatoo is any of the 21 parrot species belonging to the family Cacatuidae. The family has a mainly Australasian distribution, ranging from the Philippines and the eastern Indonesian islands of Wallacea to New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Australia.
Cockatoos are recognisable by the prominent crests and curved bills. Their plumage is generally less colourful than that of other parrots, being mainly white, grey or black and often with coloured features in the crest, cheeks or tail.
The blue-bellied roller (Coracias cyanogaster) is a member of the roller family of birds which breeds across Africa in a narrow belt from Senegal to northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is resident, apart from some local seasonal movements, in mature moist savannah dominated by Isoberlinia trees. The blue-bellied roller is a large bird, nearly the size of a jackdaw at 28–30 cm. It has a dark green back, white head, neck and breast, with the rest of the plumage mainly blue. Adults have 6 cm tail streamers. Sexes are similar, but the juvenile is a drabber version of the adult.
The Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska is one of the top zoos in the world. One of its most impressive exhibits is a tunnel where visitors walk under sharks, rays, sea turtles, and fish. 70 foot long, 17 foot deep, and 900,000 gallons—it’s a sight to behold!
The Pacific sea nettle (Chrysaora fuscescens), or West Coast sea nettle, is a common planktonic scyphozoan that lives in the eastern Pacific Ocean from Canada to Mexico.
Sea nettles have a distinctive golden-brown bell with a reddish tint. The bell can grow to be larger than one meter (three feet) in diameter in the wild, though most are less than 50 cm across. The long, spiraling, white oral arms and the 24 undulating maroon tentacles may trail behind as far as 15 feet. For humans, its sting is often irritating, but rarely dangerous.
Chrysaora fuscescens has proven to be very popular for display at public aquariums due to their bright colors and relatively easy maintenance. It is possible to establish polyps and culture Chrysaora in captivity. When provided appropriate aquarium conditions, the medusae do well under captive conditions.
Sea anemones are a group of marine, predatory animals of the order Actiniaria. They are named after the anemone, a terrestrial flowering plant, because of the colourful appearance of many. Sea anemones are classified in the phylum Cnidaria, class Anthozoa, subclass Hexacorallia. As cnidarians, sea anemones are related to corals, jellyfish, tube-dwelling anemones, and Hydra.
A typical sea anemone is a single polyp attached to a hard surface by its base, but some species live in soft sediment and a few float near the surface of the water.