Well I’ll be smug and lazy too if I could lie a rob rock all day in a smoking jacket and just be admired if I was hand fed then I have to back around some Florida Swamp looking for stray dogs or teenagers from being horror movies. But then this Claude and what’s a name for such a ferocious beast. Claude, the Albino Alligator, has become the symbol of the new California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
Claude will be toast in the real swab due to lack of camouflage but he’s right at home here like the rest of the Academies inhabitants. He can live without the nasty bits of real nature.
Now, this is the way I remembered natural history museums as a child call him noble bees seven dioramas of the glowing veldt, no flies; buzzer’s cleaning up dinner scraps. But this African room is one of the few throw bags to museum’s past. Up top you can really see the difference. The building does not buy Architect Renzo Piano has a green roof that depicts the seven hills of San Francisco which were one green, it serves as natural installation and prevents 3.6 Million gallons of water a year from becoming storm water. The US Green building council rates at the world’s greenest museum. But under the hood is the real show.
Nearly 40000 beats fish fowls and insects in theme but natural settings, ranging from the Canapé of the rain forest where the right close you might just fit right in to the piranhas waiting below. See the impossible to have a piranha eye view.
But the rain forest is just one of the environments you could submerge to yourself in by a terrapin reef, the reefs around the Philippines are among the best diving spots in the world but you can visit here without getting wet. There is a state of the art planetarium here that I didn’t have time to visit but we did see this slam dunk crowd blazer. Penguins, like you hear the planet sometime to go. We got to do penguins, penguins are hot, the clogs yum. This is Russ Johnson.
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