The Desert is a glass-domed building designed to recreate an arid, colorful desert. Walk among free-flight birds, towering saguaros and watch the racing roadrunners. Animals Blue-tongued Skink Desert Pupfish Desert Tortoise Gila Monster Ocelot Vampire Bat Spiny-tailed Monitor Ornate Uromastyx Beaded Lizard Sidewinder Sand Cat African Pancake Tortoise Crested CouaNearby Art in the Park Sonoran SnakeWarren Mather & Nancy SelvageState Capital allocation to Zoo for North America Interpretives Passages to the ContinentsArlene SlavinSponsored by the Carolinas Chapter of Safari Club International Junction SpringsLinda Dixon & Drew KrouseSponsored by Bob and Bonnie Meeker, Winn Dixie, the J. Richard & Sybel F. Hayworth Foundation, the NC Arts Council, the Ronald McDonald House Charities- International and NC Chapter, Acme McCrary and Sapona Foundation Piedmont TotemMontgomery Community College Ceramics ClassMontgomery Community College Ceramics Class The Family that Preys TogetherBrian BrownBob and Bonnie Meeker Habitat Map 35.627510781751, -79.757441394032Plants Anacacho Orchid Tree Arizona Agave Arizona Yellowbells Banana Yucca Barrel Cactus Blue Bear Grass Blue Palo Verde Brittlebush Creeping Devil Creosote Feather Bush Fourwing Saltbush Globe Berry Mescal Agave Saguaro Totem Pole Cactus Turks Head Turpentine Tree Utah Agave
Sonoran SnakeWarren Mather & Nancy SelvageState Capital allocation to Zoo for North America Interpretives
Passages to the ContinentsArlene SlavinSponsored by the Carolinas Chapter of Safari Club International
Junction SpringsLinda Dixon & Drew KrouseSponsored by Bob and Bonnie Meeker, Winn Dixie, the J. Richard & Sybel F. Hayworth Foundation, the NC Arts Council, the Ronald McDonald House Charities- International and NC Chapter, Acme McCrary and Sapona Foundation