Zoo Exhibit Design Interactions: Sniff Port

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Date → Sunday, December 18, 2011

Tags → Columbus Zoo , Design , Exhibit , Interaction , Model , Pictures , Polar Bears , Review , Tips , Trip Report

While at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium today I discovered a very cool interactive feature at the brown and polar bear exhibits in the Polar Frontier section. The bear enclosures feature a "Sniff Port", a small covered hole in the exhibit wall, located on the far
left side of the polar bear's above-water viewing space. It allows the bears to easily smell you, and if you look through the tiny