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[RALEIGH, N.C.] \u2013 The Living Conservatory<\/strong><\/a> at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is reopening Saturday, May 27. The popular exhibit, often referred to as the \u201cButterfly Room,\u201d is modeled after a Central American forest and is filled with live animals. The two-toed sloth is a fan favorite, but the room also houses as many as 200 live butterflies (of course), a tropical milk snake, five ornate wood turtles and a Brazilian black tarantula. Look closely and you can even see Central American cichlid fish circling the 200-gallon pond in the exhibit.<\/p>\n Plant lovers can also discover a real vanilla orchid, mahogany and allspice trees, strangler figs and more. Everything in the room is designed to teach visitors more about North Carolina\u2019s connection to the tropics through migration, shared species and products. \u201cI hope that people leave the Conservatory wanting to learn more about something they experienced in the room,\u201d says Andy Kauffman, Head of the Living Conservatory and Arthropod Zoo.<\/p>\n The Living Conservatory will be open for regular hours (Tuesday\u2013Sunday, 10:30 a.m. \u2013 12:30 p.m. and 1 \u2013 3 p.m. Closed on Mondays.) through Labor Day weekend, Sunday, Sept. 3.<\/p>\n For more information about our upcoming activities, conservation news and ground-breaking research, follow @NaturalSciences on Instagram<\/a>, Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85224,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/85247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/85247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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