Zoo Beauval

Zoo Beauval in France originally opened in 1980 as an aviary, housing more than 2,000 species of birds alone. Not until more than 10 years later when another animal is introduced to the habitat and the zoo has grown to more than 4,000 animals. Favorites including two white tiger zoo, known as Gorby and Rais, and the twins manatees, known as the Quito and Luna.

Park has been arranged to give visitors a feeling that they actually see the animals in their home territory. There is for example an area of more than 3 acres submitted for re-creation of an Plain neighborhood of Africa where zebras, giraffes, rhinos and other antelope roam freely.

There is also a large area of 5 acres for the collection of elephants. The park has more than 40 big cats including lions, leopards, tigers and their famous white jaguar.
You can walk through the tropical greenhouses where exotic birds fly freely around you and be able to see the chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans from close range. The park is also the only place to see amazing manatees (sea cows) in France.
There is a 1500 seat arena where an hour long good look in the water with sea-lions and in the air by an array of birds of prayer is quite a spectacle.

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Disney's Animal Kingdom

Disney's Animal Kingdom is an animal theme park located at the Walt Disney World Resort. The fourth park built at the resort, it opened on April 22, 1998, and it is the largest single Disney theme park in the world, covering more than 500 acres (202 ha). It is also the first Disney theme park to be themed entirely around animal conservation, a philosophy once pioneered by Walt Disney himself. Disney's Animal Kingdom is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, meaning they have met or exceeded the standards in Education, Conservation and Research.

The Tree of Life, a sculpted 14-story (145-foot-tall [44 m]), 50-foot-wide (15 m) tree, is the centerpiece and icon in Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park. Tourists can walk around the whole park to see all 325 animals carved in the bark of this massive tree attraction.

In 2010, the park hosted approximately 9.7 million guests, ranking it the fourth-most visited amusement park in the United States and seventh-most visited in the world

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Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario (French: Lac Ontario) is one of the five Great Lakes in North America. Ontario, Canada's most populous province, named for the lake. It is bordered on the north and southwest by the province of Ontario, and in the south by New York's American countries. In the language (Huron) Wyandot, Ontario means "Sea of ​​Shining Waters". This is the last in the chain of Great Lakes and serves as an outlet to the Atlantic Ocean via the St. Lawrence River. Lake Ontario is also the only one of the five Great Lakes for not sharing the beach with the state of Michigan.

Lake Ontario turned out to save an unsolved mystery, which is thought to be one of the secret alien base. At the moment - a certain time, are frequent sightings of light - the orange light that comes out and into the lake.
However, scientists do not respond to this problem. Scientists argue only that light - the light was just bizarre natural phenomenon is a kind of regular gas in the lake that expands and exposed to light reflection from a passing car. Although many are convinced that the scientists were wrong, Lake Ontario remains a mystery.

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