Living Collections
The Living Collections at the Springs
Preserve allows you to see a variety
of Mojave Desert wildlife, including
lizards, bats and rabbits.
The ORIGEN Experience Living Collections feature a variety of native mammals, reptiles and invertebrates.
Part of the Natural Mojave Gallery, these exhibits not only allow you to get close to some of our most famous desert dwellers, but also to better understand how these amazing animals have adapted to the extreme temperatures and arid climate of the Mojave. The scaly, furry and crawling friends on display include:
Lizard Habitat
Amongst the rocks and boulders housing several large exhibits, you'll find nine different species of lizards, including the chuckwalla, tiger whiptail and desert iguana.
Desert Cottontails
They're cute, they're fluffy, and they're so close you can almost touch them. Hopping about an exterior enclosure, these wascally wabbits can be seen from a variety of perspectives, but perhaps the most fun is via a domed window from beneath the habitat!
Gray Fox
Though the nocturnal gray fox sleeps in its burrow during the day, you can see it through a small window inside a darkened rockwork cave. But after the sun goes down, the fox makes its way to the exterior enclosure, roaming among native plants and rocks.
Bat Cave
You won't find the Caped Crusader here – but you will discover live bats in their roosts, as well as sculpted pallid bats mounted for close inspection.
Pocket Gopher
Through a window, view an excavated trench exposing the network of burrows created by a Botta's pocket gopher. Nearby, you'll find a desert tarantula and desert hairy scorpion – safely behind glass, of course.
Ant Colony
Three interconnected terrariums house a harvester ant colony, including two living chambers and a foraging chamber. Watch harvesters at work in a nest on an accompanying monitor.
Gila Monsters
Explore a grotto of large boulders to view Gila monsters in their burrows at eye level. Open a sculpted Gila monster to see the fatty deposits in its tail that help these amazing reptiles survive for long periods without eating.
Night Life
Las Vegas' original night life was composed of recluses, sidewinders and widows. In addition to the newest member of this motley crew, the bark scorpion, come see the who's who of Vegas' venomous world ... if you dare!
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