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Tropiquaria Zoo is a small tropical house and zoo in West Somerset, England. It is located from Taunton and from Minehead. It is based in a 1930s art deco BBC Radio transmitter hall, which is now a grade 2 listed building.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Washford Radio Museum )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Washford Transmitting Station, Williton )〕 A zoo has been run from this site since the early 1990s. With a mainly African theme to the tropical hall and aquarium there are a large number of outside animal enclosures as well. The zoo is a member of BIAZA〔 the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums, and has successfully bred a number of endangered species of mammals, reptiles, birds and fish. Tropiquaria includes a tropical hall with a variety of snakes and lizards, caiman and small carnivores such as raccoons and skunks. Outside are macaws, helmeted curassow, cockatoos, parrots, agoutis, gibbons, serval, wildcats, wallabies, emus, rheas, tapir, cotton-top tamarins, red-handed tamarins, ring-tailed lemurs, ruffed lemurs, brown lemurs, coatis, yellow mongoose and meerkats amongst many others.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.everythingexmoor.org.uk/exmoor-encyclopedia/contents-list/53-t/995-tropiquaria-wildlife-park.html )〕 There is also the Washford Radio Museum,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tropiquaria.co.uk/ )〕 the Shadowstring Puppet Theatre, and a number of indoor and outdoor children's play areas. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tropiquaria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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