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Snazzy new home for reptiles

Groundskeeper Ross Hendricks spruces up at the L.A. Zoo's new "LAIR" (for "Living Amphibian, Invertebrates and Reptiles"), a new habitat and exhibit five years in the making, for its official opening.

Groundskeeper Ross Hendricks spruces up at the L.A. Zoo’s new “LAIR” (for “Living Amphibian, Invertebrates and Reptiles”), a new habitat and exhibit five years in the making, for its official opening.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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The Los Angeles Zoo in Griffith Park is opening a cool new home for reptiles and amphibians, a $14-million condominium complex for Mexican beaded lizards, Rowley’s palm vipers, radiated tortoises and other creatures that slither and croak. Story

Look at that!

Brianon Wusstig of Glendale checks out the zoo’s new LAIR with son Nolan, 1, right, and Olivia Ricardo, 1, left, (whose mother, Caroline Ricardo, is off-camera). Wusstig’s husband, Byron, is a keeper at the zoo; and they were treated to an early viewing of the new facility.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

West African green mamba

A West African green mamba inside its new habitat at the L.A. Zoo.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Welcome home

L.A. Zoo animal keeper Kyle Keas places a pair of Oriente knight anoles in their new habitat.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Oriente knight anole

An Oriente knight anole sits on a rock in its new habitat at the L.A. Zoo.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Moving day

L.A. Zoo curator of reptiles Ian Recchio moves a Guatemalan palm viper into its new habitat.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Mexican giant horned lizard

Reptile keeper Marlowe Richardson holds a Mexican giant horned lizard at the new reptile and amphibian house at the L.A. Zoo.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Chinese salamander

A Chinese salamander checks out its new LAIR.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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