Natural environments and
reconstructed habitats
From the African savannah to Patagonia, the
environments that are evoked are completely unlike the
Parisian landscape and climate. Successfully recreating
these environments relies on the use of indigenous plants
(which is certainly the case for the European zone and
Great Greenhouse), or failing that, on similar European
plants that may have shapes, outlines, texture and leaf
patterns that are reminiscent of those from ecosystems
in different biozones. The illusion is a kind of artistic
interpretation where plants are chosen from a carefully
selected palette. All of the animal areas contain plants,
except for the baboon house which is entirely mineral
and furnished with 50 dry tree trunks and ropes.
No type of protection is enough to fool the baboons!