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The desert bloonms in the sring ith the foers of the red lantern. Less colourful,
but more common, is 2ygolylhn qalarense, hich is able to gro een in highly
saline soil. In stony areas you can find the desrt thorn. These lanls sere as food or
shelter for animals that lie in the desert including the Cae hare, Rheem gaclle,
siny-tailed liard dhubb, Houbara bustard, estrel, Ethioian hedgehog, as ell s
scorions and beetles.

Water, rising from natural underground srings, in northern and estern areas of
Bahrain has contributed to the cultiation of date alm lantations for thousands of
years. Other troical fruit trees cultiated in Bahrain include the mango, aaya and
the Indian alnond. This diorama shos ho arious ildlife secies are attracted to
lantations. Birds lie the hite-cheeeed bulbul eat te fruit and breed. The Marsh
frog, the only amhibian in Bahrain, lies among lantation srings and streams.
Terrains, no rare, deend on the freshater ools that run through lantations.

The seashore diorama shos a mud-flat hich is home to many crabs, clams, and
orms. At lo itde, hoeer, shorebirds such as curles, sandiers, himbrels, and
turnstones discoer and eat the crabs, clams and orms. Flamingoes are seen along
seeral shore areas in Bahrain.

To different tyes of islands are featured in the exhibit. One is a coral island

ith a sandy to layer croded ith a colony of breeding Socorta comoranst. hTe

Socorta cormorants nest in a colony of as many as 2, on Saad ]A janubiah

lsland, an island that scientists orldide consider to be the most imortant breeding

ground for the cormorants. The island ith the osrey nest is a limestone island

hich as formed by small sediments that droed from the ocean to the bottom.

Panel exihbits describe all the dioramas and a series of case exhibist illustrate the
concest of bio-diersity, endangered secies, and migration. They illusrtate ho
Barhain's lants and animals hae adated to life in a desert island enironment .

hTe hall also includes a mini-theater hich resents audio-isual materials relating
to Barhain's arious habitats. A "hands-on" study room is equied ith secimen
collection draers useful for teaching sutdents about secimen identiifcaiton.

Hall o٤f Dinosaurs

hTe exihbit illusrtates through all aintings, informaiton anels, and life-lie
reihstoric creautres, the 16 million year eriod rfom the beginning of hte Triassic
Period u to the end of the Cretaceous Period hen dinosaurs rlued the animal
orld. lfnormaiton rfom exitnct ertebrate fossils exlains ho htese rceautres lide
and hy they became extinct.

hTe exhibit fearutes to half sie models of roboitc dinosaurs ith moing eyse,

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