FUN FACTS - DID YOU KNOW?

Construction Facts

It took about 200 workers to build Amazon & Beyond.
Out of those 200 workers, it took 250,208 man hours. That’s more than 28 years for one person!
3,500 cubic yards of concrete were poured for Amazon & Beyond’s walkways and buildings.
More than 40 companies helped construct and design the new 27-acre Amazon & Beyond exhibit at Zoo Miami.

It took 10,000 bags of mulch to landscape Amazon & Beyond. Each bag covers two cubic yards. Do the math and that’s enough to cover three football fields!
There are 16,000 cubic yards of dirt in the new Amazon & Beyond exhibit. Each cubic yard of dirt weighs more than a ton. The total weight of 16,200 tons is the combined weight of more than 2,000 male African elephants.
Exactly 21,573 new plants, trees, and shrubs were planted at Amazon & Beyond. Plants have the capacity of producing 5 ml of oxygen an hour. With these new plants alone, more than 107,000 ml of oxygen are created per hour—enough to sustain 216 people during a one hour period!
There are also 453 tons of new rock. That’s equivalent to one million pounds or 3,224 female Bengal tigers.

The Flooded Forest tank holds 50,000 gallons of freshwater. Asian elephants drink on average 30 gallons of water a day. If 1,667 Asian elephants drank from the Flooded Forest, the tank would be empty in one day.
There are more than 100 different species of animals on exhibit at Amazon & Beyond. Marquee animal exhibits include: an indoor reptile and amphibian house, jaguars, giant river otters, anacondas, and Harpy eagles. Families can enjoy an outdoor 1,000 gallon freshwater stingray touch tank.
There is an interactive fountain with jets that shoot 4,500 gallons of water that children can enjoy. There is also a lily pad water play area by the Orinoco River.