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Originally Posted by http://www.csupomona.edu/~sci/news/articles/monroviabiotrek.shtm l upported by a substantial donation from Rain Bird Sprinkler Manufacturing Corporation in Glendora, the BioTrek centers feature state-of-the-art interactive educational opportunities for students and visitors of all ages.
* The Rainforest Learning Center, which is nearly 3,000 square feet in size, provides a realistic rainforest simulation with a special focus on rainforest architecture, plant adaptations, plant-animal interactions, and human impact on the environment. The exhibit contains more than 100 species of plants, as well as animals such as the spectacled caiman, the matamata turtle, stick insects, and millipedes.
* The Aquatic Biology Learning Center provides an overview of aquatic environments such as a tropical flooded rainforest, coral reefs, mangroves, and a California kelp forest. Research facilities are used by professors and university students, providing an opportunity for visitors to observe real-life research situations dealing with freshwater stream, tropical electric, sound producing, and wood eating fishes.
* The Ethnobotany Learning Center, located in a lush, garden-like setting, is a study on how different cultures use plants. Focusing on recreating the environment experienced by the Tongva, an indigenous people of the Los Angeles Basin who once settled in this area, the ethnobotany garden is stocked with plants that would have been found in those long-ago communities. The Tongva tribe are assisting Cal Poly Pomona its recreation of its early habitat. |