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The TerraZoo in Rheinberg is a reptile terrarium by private funding body.
It was originally built in the cellar of the mine facility Schacht IV in Moers by Daniel Kahlen in 1996. Due to the zoological unsuitable conditions e.g. damp cellar, close proximity to disco and fitness studio a move was necessary. After five years the animals were moved into a new building to the Rheinberg village Winterswick. The exhibition was extended for example with Nile crocodiles from the Zoo Duisburg and with an outdoor facility with reptiles from temperate climes.
In 2007 the TerraZoo was turned into a non-profit company. Daniel Kahlen died on the 20.07.2010.
The RAS-Zoo GmbH took over the hat den TerraZoo from a foreclosure on the 1st of January 2011.
The TerraZoo Rheinberg presents roughly 100 species with 400 cold blooded animals.
Mexican green rattler
This commonly quiet and hardly aggressive venomous snake is a native of the Mexican west-coast in the dry with bushes populated lowland.
The Mexican green rattler is with a length of over 200cm one of the biggest rattlesnakes.
Black mamba
This venomous snake very well known from movie and television lives in South Africa and East Africa south of the Sahara. It prefers wooded savannahs, stony mounds and woods along rivers and has a length of 220 to 270 cm, in extreme cases up to 450cm. The name doesn't stem from its skin colour but from the dark nearly deep black inner side of its mouth. The black mamba can reach speeds up to 25 km/h on land and is thus the fastest snake.
Nile crocodile
The Nile crocodile lives in Africa (apart from the north), Madagascar, the Comoros and Seychellen in fresh and brackish water. The Nile crocodile is with 3 -4 m, some animals over 6m, one of the biggest real crocodiles. It is an extremely dangerous predatory animal. The Nile crocodiles were relocated by the Zoo Duisburg into one of the most modern and largest corcodile facilities in the TerraZoo.
Rhinoceros iguana
This iguana species lives in Haiti and some surrounding islands. It belongs to the bony tail iguanas and can grow up to between 100 and 120 cm.