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Article: Montreal Insectarium draws crowds like flies.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- April 16, 2003
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Byline: Tom Sime
MONTREAL _ From the air, thanks to an architect's whimsy, it looks like a giant fly. But the real architectural design wonders of the Insectarium are within. This unusual facility in Montreal's Botanical Garden is both a zoo and museum of arthropod life: insects, spiders, scorpions and centipedes that crawl, fly, tunnel and swim all over the world.
There are more than 1 million known species, and probably many more still unknown. And even the known ones are quite strange. Visiting the Insectarium can be like visiting a zoo on another world. Conventional zoos, dominated by familiar furry and feathered creatures, however enormous, can ...