This exhibit reveals the magic of nature as a master engineer. Three robot animals and eight hands-on activities illustrate fascinating real-life characteristics, such as how a chameleon changes colours and a fly walks on the ceiling. The larger-than-life animated robots include a chameleon and a platypus. Also featured is a housefly with a 3-foot wingspan. Machinery in the robot animals simulates the body parts of their real-life counterparts. In the robot animals, muscles become pistons, intestines become filtering pipes and brains become computers. Sensory activities include "Swat the Fly," a test of the visitor's reaction time, and "Sticky Feet," where visitors wearing special equipment can try to stick like flies to a sloped surface. Triggering the "Tongue Gun" demonstrates how a real chameleon shoots out its long, sticky tongue to reel in a meal. This exhibit is certainly a summer blockbuster! On loan from Evergreen Exhibitions.

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