Heat vision
Facial pits sense temperature shifts this small, painting prey in infrared.
Rainforest Collection
Life on the edge of the canopy.
Vivid, resilient and perfectly adapted: meet the frogs and serpents that thrive thirty metres above the forest floor.
800+Tree frog species
60+Pit viper species
30 mCanopy height
01 · The climb
Built to grip.
Every toe ends in an adhesive pad lined with microscopic channels. A thin film of mucus turns wet leaves and sheer bark into a vertical road.
- Toe pads
- Hexagonal cells wick water away so the pad keeps contact, even upside down.
- Colour
- Leaf-green back for camouflage; bright flanks flash to startle predators.
- Night shift
- Most species hunt after dark and sleep pressed flat against leaves by day.
02 · Hidden in plain sight
The green that watches back.
Green pit vipers coil motionless among the leaves for days, reading the heat of passing prey through pits between eye and nostril.
Ambush patience
They can hold a single strike position for days without moving.
Strike speed
Faster than a blink: the whole strike and return is over in a fraction of a second.
03 · Gravity, negotiated
Snakes that fly.
The paradise tree snake launches from high branches, flattens its body into a wing and undulates through the air to glide between trees.
Visit the canopy
See them up close.
Guided night walks, canopy platforms and a living collection of more than forty species. Small groups, expert guides.