from the bustling intersection of East 105th and MLK Drive. From outside the exhibit looks more like an amusement park than a museum. The walkway, ramps and flowing enclosures are meant to allow a closer interaction with the animals and plants than we normally experience. As the enclosures let the animals move throughout the exhibit via overhead trailways, the humans are also encouraged to flow through the exhibit, viewing plants and animals all around, above and below them. Just like the former Perkins Wildlife Center, the newly expanded and renovated one highlights the plants and animals of Ohio. Exhibits include
mammals, like coyotes, foxes, bobcats, raccoons, and otters. Local bird species are well-represented, too, with several kinds of owls, eagles, and Peregrine Falcons. Although our native inhabitants don’t sound exotic, you certainly won’t have an opportunity to view a raccoon or coyote in your backyard the way you can at the Perkins Wildlife Center. Five ecosystems are represented in the Wildlife Center, permitting visitors to flow from a rich forest to a shrub swamp, from a wild woods garden to a wetland, each filled with the flora and fauna of our state. The Museum’s mission to protect these fragile ecosystems is accomplished each time a visitor is awed by the diversity of
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