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Before you stands the 145-foot tall Tree of Life. The
branches span 165 feet across. There are over 100,000 leaves
on the tree and the trunk is 50 feet wide. 20 artists carved
into the trunk, branches and roots over 320 animals. Thousands
worked on the construction of the Tree of Life which took 18
months to build.
"The Tree of Life is a technological marvel, but it's also a symbol of the beauty and diversity and the grandeur of our animal life on Earth," says Joe Rohde, Walt Disney Imagineering vice president and executive designer for the park. "It's a celebration of our emotions about animals and their habitats." The Tree of Life roots find their way into the paths surrounding this magnificent Animal Kingdom icon. Surrounding the Tree of Life are the Discovery Island Trails - a quiet area of pools, meadows and trees that are home to flamingoes, otters, lemurs, axis deer, cranes, storks, tortoises and red kangaroos. As you wind your way through the tree roots, you find yourself at the base of the Tree of Life and the entrance to It's Tough to be a Bug theatre. TOURING TIPS : View the Tree of Life at different times during the day. As the sun and the shadows move you will see different animals appear. INTERESTING FACTS Today, the Tree of Life is made up of 45 secondary branches leading to 756 tertiary branches leading to 7,891 end branches with 102,583 green leaves (each more than one foot long). www.AllEarsNet.com |
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