page_title: Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium
section_title: Scott Kingdom of the Seas Aquarium
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium / Major exhibits / Scott Kingdom of the Seas Aquarium
caption_attribution_description: Jellyfish, Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, Omaha NB
context_page_description: Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium is a zoo in Omaha, Nebraska, located at 3701 South 10th Street. It can be accessed by I-80. It is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and a member of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Its mission is conservation, research, recreation, and education. In August 2014, TripAdvisor proclaimed Henry Doorly Zoo the "world's best zoo", leading San Diego Zoo and Loro Parque, based on an algorithmic assimilation of millions of reviews for 275 major zoos worldwide.
  Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium is nationally renowned for its leadership in animal conservation and research. Evolving from the public Riverview Park Zoo established in 1894, today the zoo includes several notable exhibits. It features the largest cat complex in North America; "Kingdoms of the Night" is the world's largest nocturnal exhibit and indoor swamp; the Lied Jungle is one of the world's largest indoor rainforests, and the "Desert Dome" is one of the world's largest indoor deserts, as well as the largest glazed geodesic dome in the world.
context_section_description: The Walter and Suzanne Scott Kingdoms of the Seas Aquarium, a public aquarium, opened on April 1, 1995, at a cost of $16 million. The building has 71,000 sq ft (6,600 m²) and contains a total of 1,200,000 US gal (4,500,000 l; 1,000,000 imp gal) of water. It was remodeled and opened again on April 5, 2012.
  It features displays of aquatic habitats from polar regions, temperate oceans, the flooded Amazon rainforest, and coral reefs. The 450,000 US gal (1,700,000 l; 370,000 imp gal) shark tank features a 70 ft (21 m) shark tunnel at the bottom of the 17 ft (5.2 m)-deep tank.
  This tank features sharks, stingrays, sea turtles, and coral reef fish.
  Other tanks include a jellyfish, and open-ocean schooling fish.
  A new addition is a portable touch tank which allows visitors to feel a shark's scales and the rubbery skin of a stingray. The only freshwater display is of the Amazon rainforest that includes fish, invertebrates, turtles, and mammals (including common squirrel monkeys).
  The aquarium features aquatic animals from around the world, including:
  Tufted puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)
  Little penguin (Eudyptula minor)
  King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus)
  Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua)
  Pufferfish
  Moray eel
  Coral reef
  Sharks
  Stingray
  Sea turtle
  Jellyfish
caption: Sea Nettle Jellyfish, Scott Aquarium
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