an environment of animals, plants, and people, where learning is effortless, and caring about nature is paramount innovative exhibits that combine species for a truly “Close Encounter” behind the scenes visits to learn how the chimpanzee group settles for the night, about relationships in the group, and about dangers to this species in the wild children clambering down from their sleepover in the newly refurbished Archibald Centre, and gathering at a learning pod to check out their ideas with dedicated, knowledgeable keepers friends and families gathering to hear jazz or poetry in the twilight, set among the murmur of meerkats and the shrill calls of lemurs

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