Biodôme - program fall 2023

ESPACE POUR LA VIE

Espace pour la vie is happy to guide you towards a fuller experience of nature. Within its multisensory spaces, you can experience adventures you won’t find anywhere else, explore the animal and plant kingdoms and discover creative exhibits and interactive shows that will make your visits even more fascinating.

Discover the five Espace pour la vie museums: the Biodôme, Biosphère, Insectarium, Jardin botanique and Planétarium!

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Along the pathways, you’ll meet educators who’ll be pleased to share their knowledge with you. Come say hi!

Penguin feeding time

11 a.m. & 2:45 p.m.

Sub-Antarctic Islands

Feeding time is the perfect opportunity to learn more about these unique birds.

Feathers and sea

Variable times

Gulf of St. Lawrence

Meet the various marine birds and discover the amazing behaviors that allow them to survive in their environment.

Just like in nature!

Variable times 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Ensuring the well-being of our resident animals is a challenge we’re meeting with the Biodôme’s enrichment program! Learn about the different methods we’re using to stimulate the natural behaviours of the Biodôme’s inhabitants.

The beaver, architect of biodiversity

Variable times

Laurentian Maple Forest

Come observe the beaver’s building prowess and learn how they can transform the living conditions of other animal and plant species.

BIODÔME

Tropical bats – Fascinating and fundamental

Variable times

Tropical Rainforest

Discover the fundamental ecological role of bats with our science educators.

BIODÔME

With five ecosystems of the Americas under one roof, the Biodôme is like a walk in nature. A place of wonder, learning and environmental commitment for young and old alike, it is one of the few places in the world to reproduce so faithfully the complexity of the natural environment and the interactions between animal and plant species.

Enjoy your visit!

Dive into the Gulf of St. Lawrence

Variable times

Gulf of St. Lawrence

Take a dive into the midst of the rich marine life and learn about the human impacts on this habitat.

Along the shoreline

Variable times Gulf of St. Lawrence

Discover the fascinating marine organisms of various shapes and colors of the rocky shore.

EXHIBITIONS

Science Exposed

In collaboration with Acfas, Espace pour la vie celebrates life and nature with this exhibition of photographs inspired by scientific research in Canada.

Bio-machine

The Bio-machine exhibition area provides a behind-the-scenes view of the Biodôme. Visit 23 interactive interpretation stations to find out how our staff care for animals and plants!

Download the free mobile app and access some astonishing information on fauna and flora, fun quizzes and activity schedules.

FALL 2023

Laurentian Maple Forest

In this deciduous and coniferous forest, the temperature and landscape vary greatly throughout the year. Observe the vegetation and you’ll know what the season is. And smile, because right now a raccoon or lynx is watching you!

Summer: 17 to 24˚C / Winter: 4 to 9˚C

Tropical Rainforest

In this luxuriant environment, animals are there to satisfy your curiosity: tamarins, piranhas, caimans, brightly coloured birds, bats... Look at the water bodies, foliage and cave on the mountainside!

Summer: 24 to 28˚C / Winter: 21 to 24˚C

Humidity: 70 to 80%

Gulf of St. Lawrence

Dive into the rich world of the Gulf. Contemplate the fish in cold and salt water. Then smell the salty air as you walk along a “marine garden” and listen to the chirping of birds nesting on the cliff ledges.

Summer: 18 to 24˚C / Winter: 8 to 12˚C

Labrador Coast

Subpolar Regions

Amazing birds live at the far ends of the Americas. Penguins hop ashore or scuttle underwater like torpedoes around the Sub-Antarctic Islands, while puffins and murres fly or splash around near the Labrador Coast.

Labrador

Sub-Antarctic

Sub-Antarctic Islands

10 to 12˚C

2 to 5˚C

Blue-and-yellow macaw Ara ararauna

Golden lion Tamarin Leontopithecus

Emerald tree boa Corallus caninus

Yellow anaconda Eunectes notaeus

Dyeing poison dart frog Dendrobates tinctorius

Goeldi’s marmoset Callimico goeldii

Atlantic sturgeon Acipenser oxyrinchus

Striped bass Morone saxatilis

Northern red anemone Urticina felina

Common sea star Asterias rubens

Canada lynx Lynx canadensis

coast:

Islands:

Black guillemot Cepphus grylle

Atlantic puffin Fratercula arctica

Gentoo penguin Pygoscelis papua

King penguin Aptenodytes patagonicus

Northern rockhopper penguin Eudyptes moseleyi

North American river otter Lontra canadensis

North American beaver Castor canadensis

Northern raccoon Procyon lotor

North American porcupine Erethizon dorsata

Capybara Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris

Broad-snouted caiman Caiman latirostris

Scarlet ibis Eudocimus ruber

Roseate spoonbill Platalea ajaja

Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth Choloepus didactylus

Scarlet macaw Ara macao Blue

Oyapock

Jamaican fruit-eating bat Artibeus jamaicensis

Common murre Uria aalge

Redtail catfish Phractocephalus hemioliopterus