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Hi I am putting together some materials for my Disney wedding guests and need some interesting facts about the Animal Kingdom Park- Could any of you offer some help? Thanks
Interesting Facts about Animal Kingdom
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Its the largest park. You can fit EPCOT and Magic Kingdom inside of it. ( I got this on the Travel Channel show about Animal Kingdom )
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In KS, they have strategically placed feeders that are disguised as tree branches, etc that are in fact concrete feeders to draw the animals to the ride path.
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From Allears.net
Animal Kingdom covers more than 500 Acres!
Approximately 250 species are represented by over 1,000 animals.
To keep 1,000 animals happy takes about four tons of food a day . . . thats a four-and-a-half year supply for the average person.
More than 2,000 pounds of vegetation and browse is fed to the animals every day, and several varieties of worms are provided to the animals, including super mealworms, yellow mealworms, red wigglers, night crawlers and wax worms -- 40,000 in a week! Dieticians also order 80,000 crickets per month as part of the healthy diet for the animals.
Disneys Animal Kingdom is home to the largest groups of Nile hippos and African elephants in North America.
The first birth at Disneys Animal Kingdom was a kudu, a large African antelope.
Disney Animal Kingdom scientists have discovered two new vocalizations never before reported in elephants.
The number of species that have reproduced since the park opened is 116.
Two Micronesian Kingfisher chicks were hatched at Disneys Animal Kingdom, raising the world population of these birds by 3 percent.
The arrival of a black rhino calf born at Disneys Animal Kingdom made him one of only 250 worldwide.
Animal Programs veterinarians have successfully performed surgery on a tarantula spider, placed an artificial eye in a fish and removed a golf ball from a hungry snake rescued at a Disney golf course.
The Animal Programs team performs more than 600 wellness checks per year.
Lab technicians have analyzed more than 10,000 samples of animal poop since Disneys Animal Kingdom opened.
More than 4 million trees, plants, shrubs, ground-covers, vines, epiphytes and grasses from every continent on Earth -- except Antarctica -- were planted.
Theres one million square feet of rockwork at Disneys Animal Kingdom . . . thats twice the volume of rockwork in the Mt. Rushmore sculptures or a volume that could create a monolith 10 feet by 10 feet by two miles high.
Some 1,500 2-to-3-foot long fanciful hand-painted wooden folk art animal carvings -- a fusion of pre-Columbian, Peruvian, African and Polynesian forms -- were crafted on the island of Bali by native craftsmen, and can be seen adorning the architecture of Safari Village.
The Tree of Life is 145 feet tall and its leafy branches spread 160 feet. It is topped with more than 103,000 transparent, five-shades-of-green leaves that actually blow in the wind.
Ten artists and three Imagineers worked full-time for 18 months to create the 325 animal carvings on The Tree of Life. Sculptors had between six and 10 hours to create the finished image before the plaster hardened.
There are 27 million gallons of water in Discovery River . . . thats an amount equal to 1,800 average-sized backyard swimming pools.
There are 2.6 million gallons of water contained in various water features that come in contact with animals. On average, the entire volume of water is treated and filtered five times daily, which means that 15.6 million gallons of water are treated and filtered every day.
The largest tree replanted in the park is located in Harambe village, and tipped the scales at 90 tons . . . thats equal to the weight of 16 male elephants.
The parking lot can accommodate 6,000 vehicles and is 100 acres in size.
There were more than 4,500 Cast Members on Opening Day.
A core team of seven Walt Disney Imagineers, led by executive designer Joe Rohde, crisscrossed the globe in search of the essential look of life in the wild, amassing more than 500,000 miles in the last decade . . . a distance equal to circling the globe 20 times.
Sixty dump trucks of dirt were delivered to Disneys Animal Kingdom construction site every day for two years straight, equaling 4.4 million cubic yards of dirt.
The rutted safari road also is part of the landscape design. Imagineerings design team matched concrete with the surrounding soil, then rolled tires through it, and tossed stones, dirt and twigs into it to create an appropriately bumpy experience duplicating a remote African road.
Planting Kilimanjaro Safaris was a challenge. With a ride-through attraction and live animals roaming about, planting patterns were based on what designers thought the animals would do, and what the guests will experience. Paul Comstock, principal landscape architect, laid out the plant bed lines on a motorcycle (using spray paint) riding at the same speed as the ride vehicle, because guests will experience the landscape at that speed, he said.
Like a snapshot from an African safari, towering acacia trees and tall grasses paint a familiar picture of the Serengeti on a vast stretch of rolling landscape, but this is Central Florida, not east Africa, and the acacias are really 30-foot-tall Southern live oaks with a close-cropped crew cut.
In order to support the incredibly large and sophisticated dinosaur Audio-Animatronics® at DINOSAUR in DinoLand U.S.A., their dino-size bases were built clear through the structure down to their own large foundations in the ground.
The cycad collection along Cretaceous Trail in DinoLand U.S.A. represents the third largest such collection in North America, including direct descendants of the four botanical epochs of plant evolution dating back hundreds of millions of years, including ferns, mosses, conifers, broadleaf plants and the first flowering plants on earth.
Company founder Walt Disneys love of animals began when he was four years old and his family moved from his Chicago birthplace to a 45-acre farm in Marceline, Missouri, where he helped take care of farm animals, as well as learned to draw pictures of his animal friends.
The Animal Kingdom Project was announced June 5, 1995. Ground was broken in August 1995 and the Grand Opening was held on April 22, 1998.
Since 1995, the Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund has devoted more than $6 million to conservation efforts around the world and has supported more than 230 projects
Animal Kingdom covers more than 500 Acres!
Approximately 250 species are represented by over 1,000 animals.
To keep 1,000 animals happy takes about four tons of food a day . . . thats a four-and-a-half year supply for the average person.
More than 2,000 pounds of vegetation and browse is fed to the animals every day, and several varieties of worms are provided to the animals, including super mealworms, yellow mealworms, red wigglers, night crawlers and wax worms -- 40,000 in a week! Dieticians also order 80,000 crickets per month as part of the healthy diet for the animals.
Disneys Animal Kingdom is home to the largest groups of Nile hippos and African elephants in North America.
The first birth at Disneys Animal Kingdom was a kudu, a large African antelope.
Disney Animal Kingdom scientists have discovered two new vocalizations never before reported in elephants.
The number of species that have reproduced since the park opened is 116.
Two Micronesian Kingfisher chicks were hatched at Disneys Animal Kingdom, raising the world population of these birds by 3 percent.
The arrival of a black rhino calf born at Disneys Animal Kingdom made him one of only 250 worldwide.
Animal Programs veterinarians have successfully performed surgery on a tarantula spider, placed an artificial eye in a fish and removed a golf ball from a hungry snake rescued at a Disney golf course.
The Animal Programs team performs more than 600 wellness checks per year.
Lab technicians have analyzed more than 10,000 samples of animal poop since Disneys Animal Kingdom opened.
More than 4 million trees, plants, shrubs, ground-covers, vines, epiphytes and grasses from every continent on Earth -- except Antarctica -- were planted.
Theres one million square feet of rockwork at Disneys Animal Kingdom . . . thats twice the volume of rockwork in the Mt. Rushmore sculptures or a volume that could create a monolith 10 feet by 10 feet by two miles high.
Some 1,500 2-to-3-foot long fanciful hand-painted wooden folk art animal carvings -- a fusion of pre-Columbian, Peruvian, African and Polynesian forms -- were crafted on the island of Bali by native craftsmen, and can be seen adorning the architecture of Safari Village.
The Tree of Life is 145 feet tall and its leafy branches spread 160 feet. It is topped with more than 103,000 transparent, five-shades-of-green leaves that actually blow in the wind.
Ten artists and three Imagineers worked full-time for 18 months to create the 325 animal carvings on The Tree of Life. Sculptors had between six and 10 hours to create the finished image before the plaster hardened.
There are 27 million gallons of water in Discovery River . . . thats an amount equal to 1,800 average-sized backyard swimming pools.
There are 2.6 million gallons of water contained in various water features that come in contact with animals. On average, the entire volume of water is treated and filtered five times daily, which means that 15.6 million gallons of water are treated and filtered every day.
The largest tree replanted in the park is located in Harambe village, and tipped the scales at 90 tons . . . thats equal to the weight of 16 male elephants.
The parking lot can accommodate 6,000 vehicles and is 100 acres in size.
There were more than 4,500 Cast Members on Opening Day.
A core team of seven Walt Disney Imagineers, led by executive designer Joe Rohde, crisscrossed the globe in search of the essential look of life in the wild, amassing more than 500,000 miles in the last decade . . . a distance equal to circling the globe 20 times.
Sixty dump trucks of dirt were delivered to Disneys Animal Kingdom construction site every day for two years straight, equaling 4.4 million cubic yards of dirt.
The rutted safari road also is part of the landscape design. Imagineerings design team matched concrete with the surrounding soil, then rolled tires through it, and tossed stones, dirt and twigs into it to create an appropriately bumpy experience duplicating a remote African road.
Planting Kilimanjaro Safaris was a challenge. With a ride-through attraction and live animals roaming about, planting patterns were based on what designers thought the animals would do, and what the guests will experience. Paul Comstock, principal landscape architect, laid out the plant bed lines on a motorcycle (using spray paint) riding at the same speed as the ride vehicle, because guests will experience the landscape at that speed, he said.
Like a snapshot from an African safari, towering acacia trees and tall grasses paint a familiar picture of the Serengeti on a vast stretch of rolling landscape, but this is Central Florida, not east Africa, and the acacias are really 30-foot-tall Southern live oaks with a close-cropped crew cut.
In order to support the incredibly large and sophisticated dinosaur Audio-Animatronics® at DINOSAUR in DinoLand U.S.A., their dino-size bases were built clear through the structure down to their own large foundations in the ground.
The cycad collection along Cretaceous Trail in DinoLand U.S.A. represents the third largest such collection in North America, including direct descendants of the four botanical epochs of plant evolution dating back hundreds of millions of years, including ferns, mosses, conifers, broadleaf plants and the first flowering plants on earth.
Company founder Walt Disneys love of animals began when he was four years old and his family moved from his Chicago birthplace to a 45-acre farm in Marceline, Missouri, where he helped take care of farm animals, as well as learned to draw pictures of his animal friends.
The Animal Kingdom Project was announced June 5, 1995. Ground was broken in August 1995 and the Grand Opening was held on April 22, 1998.
Since 1995, the Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund has devoted more than $6 million to conservation efforts around the world and has supported more than 230 projects
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From www.wdisneyw.co.uk ...some are repeats from above
Project Announced: June 5, 1995.
Construction Began: August 1995.
Disney's Animal Kingdom opened on April 22, 1998.
Size: More than 500 acres
The Tree of Life is 145 feet tall, and the trunk is 50 feet wide.
There are over 320 animals carved onto the Tree of Life, with over 103,000 leaves on approx 8,000 branches.
The tree is made of concrete, over a modified oil rig.
Ten artists and three Imagineers worked full-time for 18 months to create the 325 animal carvings on The Tree of Life. Sculptors had between six and 10 hours to create the finished image before the plaster hardened.
The Tree of Life is topped with more than 103,000 transparent, five-shades-of-green leaves that actually blow in the wind.
The safari covers over 110 acres.
There are climate-controlled rocks on the safari, to encourage the lions to sit in view of the safari vehicles.
The safari vehicles are modified GM trucks, and go a maximum of 10mph.
Planting Kilimanjaro Safaris was a challenge. With a ride-through attraction and live animals roaming about, planting patterns were based on what designers thought the animals would do, and what the guests will experience. Paul Comstock, principal landscape architect, laid out the plant bed lines on a motorcycle (using spray paint) riding at the same speed as the ride vehicle, because guests will experience the landscape at that speed, he said.
The rutted safari road also is part of the landscape design. Imagineerings design team matched concrete with the surrounding soil, then rolled tires through it, and tossed stones, dirt and twigs into it to create an appropriately bumpy experience duplicating a remote African road.
There are over 300 species of animals, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects represented at Animal Kingdom. There are over 1100 animals in total at the park.
More than 4 million trees, plants, shrubs, ground-covers, vines, epiphytes and grasses from every continent on Earth -- except Antarctica -- were planted, with over 4,000 different species.
There are 19 dinosaurs on the 'Dinosaur' ride.
'Sue' the dinosaur, on display in Dinoland, is a replica of the most complete T-Rex ever found, which was 65 million years old.
The village of Harambe is based on the Kenyan town of Lamu.
There is only one live baobab tree in Harambe, outside Tusker House restaurant.
The largest tree replanted in the park is located in Harambe village, and tipped the scales at 90 tons . . . thats equal to the weight of 16 male elephants.
Anandapur means "place of all delights" in Sanskrit.
Here's the story behind Anandapur (the mythical kingdom in Animal Kingdom's Asia) - "It was established in 1544 as a royal hunting reserve. Over the years a colorful village grew up around the royal park. Today, the village thrives, while the reserve itself, dotted with ancient ruins, has been converted by Anandapur's current royal family into a conservation area."
Chakranadi River means "the river that flows in a circle".
A core team of seven Walt Disney Imagineers, led by executive designer Joe Rohde, crisscrossed the globe in search of the essential look of life in the wild, amassing more than 500,000 miles in the last decade . . . a distance equal to circling the globe 20 times.
Sixty dump trucks of dirt were delivered to Disneys Animal Kingdom construction site every day for two years straight, equaling 4.4 million cubic yards of dirt.
Some 1,500 2-to-3-foot long fanciful hand-painted wooden folk art animal carvings -- a fusion of pre-Columbian, Peruvian, African and Polynesian forms -- were crafted on the island of Bali by native craftsmen, and can be seen adorning the architecture of Safari Village.
In order to support the incredibly large and sophisticated dinosaur Audio-Animatronics® at DINOSAUR in DinoLand U.S.A., their dino-size bases were built clear through the structure down to their own large foundations in the ground.
Theres one million square feet of rockwork at Disneys Animal Kingdom . . . thats twice the volume of rockwork in the Mt. Rushmore sculptures or a volume that could create a monolith 10 feet by 10 feet by two miles high.
To keep 1,000 animals happy takes about four tons of food a day . . . thats a four-and-a-half year supply for the average person.
There are 27 million gallons of water in Discovery River . . . thats an amount equal to 1,800 average-sized backyard swimming pools.
There are 2.6 million gallons of water contained in various water features that come in contact with animals. On average, the entire volume of water is treated and filtered five times daily, which means that 15.6 million gallons of water are treated and filtered every day.
The cycad collection along Cretaceous Trail in DinoLand U.S.A. represents the third largest such collection in North America, including direct descendants of the four botanical epochs of plant evolution dating back hundreds of millions of years, including ferns, mosses, conifers, broadleaf plants and the first flowering plants on earth.
Like a snapshot from an African safari, towering acacia trees and tall grasses paint a familiar picture of the Serengeti on a vast stretch of rolling landscape, but this is Central Florida, not east Africa, and the acacias are really 30-foot-tall Southern live oaks with a close-cropped crew cut.
Company founder Walt Disneys love of animals began when he was four years old and his family moved from his Chicago birthplace to a 45-acre farm in Marceline, Missouri, where he helped take care of farm animals, as well as learned to draw pictures of his animal friends.
Disneys Animal Kingdom is home to the largest groups of Nile hippos and African elephants in North America.
The first birth at Disneys Animal Kingdom was a kudu, a large African antelope.
The number of species that have reproduced since the park opened is 116.
Two Micronesian Kingfisher chicks were hatched at Disneys Animal Kingdom, raising the world population of these birds by 3 percent.
The arrival of a black rhino calf born at Disneys Animal Kingdom made him one of only 250 worldwide.
Animal Programs veterinarians have successfully performed surgery on a tarantula spider, placed an artificial eye in a fish and removed a golf ball from a hungry snake rescued at a Disney golf course.
The Animal Programs team performs more than 600 wellness checks per year.
Lab technicians have analyzed more than 10,000 samples of animal poop since Disneys Animal Kingdom opened.
More than 2,000 pounds of vegetation and browse is fed to the animals every day, and several varieties of worms are provided to the animals, including super mealworms, yellow mealworms, red wigglers, night crawlers and wax worms -- 40,000 in a week! Dieticians also order 80,000 crickets per month as part of the healthy diet for the animals.
Disney Animal Kingdom scientists have discovered two new vocalizations never before reported in elephants.
Since 1995, the Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund has devoted more than $6 million to conservation efforts around the world and has supported more than 230 projects.
Project Announced: June 5, 1995.
Construction Began: August 1995.
Disney's Animal Kingdom opened on April 22, 1998.
Size: More than 500 acres
The Tree of Life is 145 feet tall, and the trunk is 50 feet wide.
There are over 320 animals carved onto the Tree of Life, with over 103,000 leaves on approx 8,000 branches.
The tree is made of concrete, over a modified oil rig.
Ten artists and three Imagineers worked full-time for 18 months to create the 325 animal carvings on The Tree of Life. Sculptors had between six and 10 hours to create the finished image before the plaster hardened.
The Tree of Life is topped with more than 103,000 transparent, five-shades-of-green leaves that actually blow in the wind.
The safari covers over 110 acres.
There are climate-controlled rocks on the safari, to encourage the lions to sit in view of the safari vehicles.
The safari vehicles are modified GM trucks, and go a maximum of 10mph.
Planting Kilimanjaro Safaris was a challenge. With a ride-through attraction and live animals roaming about, planting patterns were based on what designers thought the animals would do, and what the guests will experience. Paul Comstock, principal landscape architect, laid out the plant bed lines on a motorcycle (using spray paint) riding at the same speed as the ride vehicle, because guests will experience the landscape at that speed, he said.
The rutted safari road also is part of the landscape design. Imagineerings design team matched concrete with the surrounding soil, then rolled tires through it, and tossed stones, dirt and twigs into it to create an appropriately bumpy experience duplicating a remote African road.
There are over 300 species of animals, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects represented at Animal Kingdom. There are over 1100 animals in total at the park.
More than 4 million trees, plants, shrubs, ground-covers, vines, epiphytes and grasses from every continent on Earth -- except Antarctica -- were planted, with over 4,000 different species.
There are 19 dinosaurs on the 'Dinosaur' ride.
'Sue' the dinosaur, on display in Dinoland, is a replica of the most complete T-Rex ever found, which was 65 million years old.
The village of Harambe is based on the Kenyan town of Lamu.
There is only one live baobab tree in Harambe, outside Tusker House restaurant.
The largest tree replanted in the park is located in Harambe village, and tipped the scales at 90 tons . . . thats equal to the weight of 16 male elephants.
Anandapur means "place of all delights" in Sanskrit.
Here's the story behind Anandapur (the mythical kingdom in Animal Kingdom's Asia) - "It was established in 1544 as a royal hunting reserve. Over the years a colorful village grew up around the royal park. Today, the village thrives, while the reserve itself, dotted with ancient ruins, has been converted by Anandapur's current royal family into a conservation area."
Chakranadi River means "the river that flows in a circle".
A core team of seven Walt Disney Imagineers, led by executive designer Joe Rohde, crisscrossed the globe in search of the essential look of life in the wild, amassing more than 500,000 miles in the last decade . . . a distance equal to circling the globe 20 times.
Sixty dump trucks of dirt were delivered to Disneys Animal Kingdom construction site every day for two years straight, equaling 4.4 million cubic yards of dirt.
Some 1,500 2-to-3-foot long fanciful hand-painted wooden folk art animal carvings -- a fusion of pre-Columbian, Peruvian, African and Polynesian forms -- were crafted on the island of Bali by native craftsmen, and can be seen adorning the architecture of Safari Village.
In order to support the incredibly large and sophisticated dinosaur Audio-Animatronics® at DINOSAUR in DinoLand U.S.A., their dino-size bases were built clear through the structure down to their own large foundations in the ground.
Theres one million square feet of rockwork at Disneys Animal Kingdom . . . thats twice the volume of rockwork in the Mt. Rushmore sculptures or a volume that could create a monolith 10 feet by 10 feet by two miles high.
To keep 1,000 animals happy takes about four tons of food a day . . . thats a four-and-a-half year supply for the average person.
There are 27 million gallons of water in Discovery River . . . thats an amount equal to 1,800 average-sized backyard swimming pools.
There are 2.6 million gallons of water contained in various water features that come in contact with animals. On average, the entire volume of water is treated and filtered five times daily, which means that 15.6 million gallons of water are treated and filtered every day.
The cycad collection along Cretaceous Trail in DinoLand U.S.A. represents the third largest such collection in North America, including direct descendants of the four botanical epochs of plant evolution dating back hundreds of millions of years, including ferns, mosses, conifers, broadleaf plants and the first flowering plants on earth.
Like a snapshot from an African safari, towering acacia trees and tall grasses paint a familiar picture of the Serengeti on a vast stretch of rolling landscape, but this is Central Florida, not east Africa, and the acacias are really 30-foot-tall Southern live oaks with a close-cropped crew cut.
Company founder Walt Disneys love of animals began when he was four years old and his family moved from his Chicago birthplace to a 45-acre farm in Marceline, Missouri, where he helped take care of farm animals, as well as learned to draw pictures of his animal friends.
Disneys Animal Kingdom is home to the largest groups of Nile hippos and African elephants in North America.
The first birth at Disneys Animal Kingdom was a kudu, a large African antelope.
The number of species that have reproduced since the park opened is 116.
Two Micronesian Kingfisher chicks were hatched at Disneys Animal Kingdom, raising the world population of these birds by 3 percent.
The arrival of a black rhino calf born at Disneys Animal Kingdom made him one of only 250 worldwide.
Animal Programs veterinarians have successfully performed surgery on a tarantula spider, placed an artificial eye in a fish and removed a golf ball from a hungry snake rescued at a Disney golf course.
The Animal Programs team performs more than 600 wellness checks per year.
Lab technicians have analyzed more than 10,000 samples of animal poop since Disneys Animal Kingdom opened.
More than 2,000 pounds of vegetation and browse is fed to the animals every day, and several varieties of worms are provided to the animals, including super mealworms, yellow mealworms, red wigglers, night crawlers and wax worms -- 40,000 in a week! Dieticians also order 80,000 crickets per month as part of the healthy diet for the animals.
Disney Animal Kingdom scientists have discovered two new vocalizations never before reported in elephants.
Since 1995, the Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund has devoted more than $6 million to conservation efforts around the world and has supported more than 230 projects.
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They also hide fences and baracades so it looks like the animals are mingling together. There is a large water moat in between the lions and gazelles, a baracade in the water to prevent the hippos from escaping. This was also on the travel channel. Maybe someone else can think of the proper terms they use for these baracades. 
My mind is shot today, up to late reading trip reports! 
My mind is shot today, up to late reading trip reports! 
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AK is ten degrees warmer than any park.
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These are from the WDW secrets thread and are may not be what you are looking for but they are fun:
In the AK if you stand facing Tusker house and listen you can hear the landlady banging on the door in the room upstairs trying to get in.
The red, yellow, and white pipes above the load area at "Dinosaur" are for Ketchup, Mustard, and Mayonnaise and that the letters on each pipe are their chemical formulas. This ride is sponsored by McDonalds.
In Harambe you might spy a genuine Coke bottle perched atop a utility pole as an insulator for a power line.
In the mythical land of Anandapur in Asia - note the authentic prayer trees, draped with both faded and new scarves that commemorate dead loved ones.
Goodwill Ambassadors: A number of Asian and African natives are on hand throughout the park. Both gracious and knowledgeable, they are delighted to discuss their country and its wildlife. Look for them in Harambe and along the Pangani Forest Exploration Trail in Africa, and in Anandapur and along the Maharaja Jungle Trek in Asia. They can also be found near the min entrance and at the Oasis.
In the AK if you stand facing Tusker house and listen you can hear the landlady banging on the door in the room upstairs trying to get in.
The red, yellow, and white pipes above the load area at "Dinosaur" are for Ketchup, Mustard, and Mayonnaise and that the letters on each pipe are their chemical formulas. This ride is sponsored by McDonalds.
In Harambe you might spy a genuine Coke bottle perched atop a utility pole as an insulator for a power line.
In the mythical land of Anandapur in Asia - note the authentic prayer trees, draped with both faded and new scarves that commemorate dead loved ones.
Goodwill Ambassadors: A number of Asian and African natives are on hand throughout the park. Both gracious and knowledgeable, they are delighted to discuss their country and its wildlife. Look for them in Harambe and along the Pangani Forest Exploration Trail in Africa, and in Anandapur and along the Maharaja Jungle Trek in Asia. They can also be found near the min entrance and at the Oasis.
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The uniforms for many of the CM's are made with a pulpy fabric harvested from trees.
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The animals don't stay on the safari at night... they return to their bases by responding to a sound (each type of animal has a different sound).
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mandy200587 said:
And for good reason! The Animal Kingdom park is in a "bowl". As you enter the park, you are climbing an incline. Then as you see the Tree of Life, you begin to descend. You are surrounded or enclosed by a land rim. No cool breezes, and all that vegetation creates steam!!! Learned this from the AK backstage tour.
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It's NAH TA ZU!!
heheheh, sorry had to
heheheh, sorry had to
mandy200587 said:
Wow- I did not know that! It make sense though.
Also- somone posted that MK and EPCOT can fit inside. If I'm not mistaken, MK, EPCOT, and MGM can all fit inside. I thought I heard on the travel channel it is bigger than all three of parks put together.
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Thanks everyone! This turned into a really interesting thread - some of the things I had heard on the travel channel and did not remember and some things I never heard before! Thanks again- anything that you would like to add would be appreciated!
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To encourage the lions to sit proudly up on the rock for the Kilamanjaro Safari ride, which makes for great guest picture taking, the rock is heated in the winter and cooled in the summer for the lion's pleasure.
MK, EPCOT and MGM can all fit comfortably in AK.
All of MK can fit inside of the Kilamanjaro Safari area.
MK, EPCOT and MGM can all fit comfortably in AK.
All of MK can fit inside of the Kilamanjaro Safari area.
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awsome thread!!!
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