Welcome to Lincoln Park Zoo's newest exhibit:

The Regenstein Small Mammal-Reptile House!

This state-of-the-art building, designed to provide visitors with close-up views of fifty different species of animals, took over four years and $12 million to complete.

The unveiling of The Regenstein Small Mammal-Reptile House begins an entirely new era of Lincoln Park Zoo's leadership in wildlife exhibition, ecological education and conservation.

Experience the Reptile and Small Mammal Galleries to observe the endangered Aruba Island Rattlesnake, a colony of Naked Mole-Rats and Short-Eared Elephant Shrew, among many others. Continue your journey through a Baobab Tree while keeping an eye out for Mountain Fruit Bats and a King Baboon Spider! Explore the building's domed, five-story Ecosystem filled with mixed-animal exhibits that include waterfalls, dense vegetation and thatched hut outposts. Learn more about the Cotton-Top Tamarin, Dwarf Crocodile and the Strangler Fig Tree as you experience animal and plant life living within a variety of simulated wet forest and dry savanna habitats. Click in the map below to take you to that area of the building. Many of the pictures that you will see in the tour have hidden hotspots that you can click for more information and surprises...so move your mouse over different areas of the photos and see if the cursor changes into a pointing finger icon. If it does...click away!

Below each picture will be a small "you are here" map: The red arrow shows where you are, and indicates the direction the viewer is facing.