The residents
Meet the Creatures
The living residents you’ll meet up close in our macro-VR experience — real animals filmed in immersive detail, from tarantulas and scorpions to frogs, snakes, and a whole freshwater pond.
Eight legs & more
Arachnids
Emperor Scorpion
One of the world's largest scorpions; its shell glows blue-green under UV light.
Red Knee Tarantula
Famous warm red-orange leg joints; a patient ambush predator.
Green Femur Tarantula
A ground-dweller with emerald-toned leg joints and a patient, ambush style.
Tarantula Molting
Watch a tarantula shed its entire exoskeleton in a VR time-lapse.
Whip Scorpions
Looks fierce but is harmless — no venom, no sting; maps the dark with whip-like feeler legs.
Baboon Spider
A trapdoor hunter filmed in night vision, striking from a hidden silk-hinged door.
Six legs
Insects
Praying Mantis
A lightning-fast ambush hunter with a head that swivels to track its prey.
Assassin Bugs
An ambush predator with a piercing beak that liquefies its prey.
Blue Death Feigning Beetles
A powder-blue desert beetle that flips over and plays dead when startled.
Jade-Headed Buffalo Beetles
A heavy scarab built for digging, with claws that hook into any surface.
Honey Bee Hive
A living colony — watch foragers, guards, and the famous waggle dance.
Hissing Roaches
A wingless decomposer that hisses through the breathing holes along its sides.
Jungle Nymphs
A heavyweight stick insect: spiny green females and slimmer brown males.
Prickly Stick Insects
It sways like a leaf, then curls up to mimic a scorpion when threatened.
Leaf Insects
A master of camouflage that looks exactly like a living leaf.
Polyphemus Caterpillars
The bright green larva of a giant silk moth with eyespotted wings.
In & around the water
Amphibians & Ponds
Poison Arrow Frogs
Brilliant blue and yellow rainforest frogs whose bold colors warn of toxicity.
Tiger Salamanders
Big amphibians whose gilled, aquatic larvae grow into land-burrowing hunters.
Fresh Water Pond
Dive beneath the surface to find tadpoles, water fleas, and diving-beetle water tigers.
Scales & shells
Reptiles
Bearded Dragons
An Australian sun-lover that darkens and puffs its beard when excited.
Green Tree Monitor
A slender canopy climber with a prehensile tail and real problem-solving smarts.
Skinks
Small, glossy lizards that can drop and regrow their tails to escape.
Garter Snakes
Daylight hunters that patrol wetland edges, flicking to taste the air.
Garter & Milk Snakes
Juveniles side by side — alert garter foragers and secretive milk-snake constrictors.
Pearl Garter Snake
A rare pearly color morph of the plains garter snake.
Russian Tortoise
A sturdy little desert tortoise from Central Asia — a tiny bulldozer.
Baby Tortoises
Hatchling tortoises just beginning their very long lives.
