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Discovery Room

Housed in the Discovery Room are the very popular live-animal exhibits. Here you'll encounter the fascinating world of snakes, frogs, and toads at the exclusive reptile and amphibian exhibit. Visitors can share close-up—but safe—views of timber rattlesnakes, northern copperheads, and black rat snakes. Open pond displays are homes to a wonderful collection of reptiles, such as the red-eared slider, the common snapping turtle, wood turtles, painted turtles, and stinkpot turtles. Amphibians, such as American toads and northern leopard frogs, may also be featured.

The Discovery Room also features unique exhibits especially designed to engage your children in environmental learning. Most of the exhibits are highly interactive as well as very informative. Children can follow tracks on the floor to find out which animal made them, test their strength against that of an eagle's or owl's claws, or see the constellations in the stars! Our Touch and Feel table lets children and adults run their hands over the antlers of white-tailed deer, turtle shells, stones, wood, bird feathers, and animal skeletons.

Note: Groups of twelve or more require advanced scheduling and a nominal fee.

Exhibits may include:

• Look Up! Hawks in Flight
• Mysterious Spinning Spiders
• We're Creeping While You're Sleeping!
• Does Sugar Grow on Trees?
• Pennsylvania Is Cat-tastic!
• Common Mushrooms of Pennsylvania
• Star Gazer
• Cattails: A Native Edible
• What's the Dirt on Pennsylvania State Soil?
• Who's Hibernating Here?

The Discovery Room also includes a children's loft where kids can enjoy a library of children's nature and environmental books and supplies for creative drawing and writing projects. Among the loft's exhibits is a dark booth that lights up the night sky and the particularly fun "Morph Me," where kids can costume themselves to look like a monarch butterfly, a great horned owl, a little brown bat, or a white-tailed deer.

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