…and we STILL cleaned glass.

How to get a strong handshake: we clipped the shelves to accommodate the terrarium drains.

This steel is HARD! Let’s get this right the first time.

Time to ease the terrariums into their new homes.

Where’s a plumber when we need him? Time to install drain lines.

No margin for error. PVC pipe is a tight fit.

This is less fun on some shelves.

Why did placing the bottom shelf so near to the floor seem like such a good idea?

NOW it’s starting to look like a frog room.

Yes Marcela, we’re really going to finish the job!

A new arrival at the zoo. Andrés holds a “chuncho,” an Austral Pygmy-Owl, Glaucidium nanum.

A close-up look at the chuncho.

Our neighbor to the east, a Peruvian Pelican, Pelecanus thagus.

This place has cool plants (Aloe arborescens).