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Article: Pumps power rain forest--in the Bronx.
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- National Driller
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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One of New York City's most intriguing home improvement projects covers 6.5 acres in the Bronx Zoo. The Congo Gorilla Forest recreates a segment of a Central African rain forest in an exhibit that has become home to more than 300 animals of over 60 species.
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Highlighted by North America's largest breeding populations of Western lowland gorillas, the new "Forest" also is home to mandrills, okapi and other African mammals, as well as a population of plants, amphibians, reptiles, fish, invertebrates and birds that co-habit the world's second largest rain forest in central and western Africa's Congo River basin.
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