- SEA LIFE, Mighty Amazon
In this landscape food can be plentiful.
During the wet season, rivers flood the rainforest floor where fruits, nuts and seeds fall. When the dry season returns some fish are trapped in ever-decreasing, muddy pools without food, with little oxygen and no way of escaping predators.
On the river predators can appear from any direction, above or below the water. You've got to be tough to make it in this habitat. Many rainforest creatures are big and toothy but sometimes it's the smallest and most harmless-looking animals which can pack the deadliest punch!
Are you ready for a jungle adventure? Let's go!
Meet Sunny & Hunny
- Visit our Rainforest Room to meet our two tortoises
- They are called Sunny and Hunny
Who else will you meet?
The farmers of the insect world
Leaf-cutter Ants grow their own food in underground fungus farms. Pieces of leaves are carried hundreds of metres, with each ant carrying a piece up to 50 times its own body weight!
Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
These insects are native to Madagascar and live in forests and other moist, tropical regions. Growing up to 7.5 cm in length, these are one of the largest cockroach species in the world!
African Land Snails
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Our snails are not fussy eaters, and they certainly eat their greens! African land snails can indulge in over 500 different species of plant, as well as even eating a few bones for much-needed calcium to keep their impressive shells strong and healthy!
Red-bellied Piranhas
There are around 40 species of Piranha and it may surprise you to read that most are vegetarian; feeding mainly on fruits, nuts and seeds that fall from the trees.
The Red-bellied Piranhas you will encounter on your journey through SEA LIFE Hunstanton, are one of the few meat-eating varieties.
Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman
The Dwarf Caiman is the smallest of the crocodilian family. They have one of the most remarkable head shapes of their species, being short, very smooth and concave with an overlapping lower jaw by the upper.
