The finale is a boardwalk tour, where everyone can feast their eyes in wonder at hundreds of beady red gator eyes in surrounding waters. A fiddler and banjo picker entertain, Cracker-style, at the nighttime swamp party. The award winning Florida-themed shop features a dazzling array of keepsakes and elegant, handcrafted alligator leather goods. 1996 - Mark McHugh is named chief executive officer. The lories are so friendly they land on the hands and shoulders of visitors who feed them.
Workers remove antiquated concrete block pools to make way for more natural surroundings.
Now, gators swim in the main lake, parrots fly to open-air perches and pythons slither about a large enclosure. 1998 - Jungle Crocs of the World premiers. The two-acre display houses one of the world's largest exhibits of giant crocodiles in captivity. The Jungle Crocs' design reflects natural settings, where the beasts can grow to be more than 20 ft. long and weigh more than a ton. While people seldom get to see crocodiles move, this unprecedented exhibit features the word's most ferocious predators exploding from water and chasing their prey onto land with startling speed.