Back Tree of Life French Árbore da vida Galician עץ החיים (דיסני) HE Tree of Life (Disney) Italian Tree of Life Portuguese Дрво живота (Дизнијево животињско царство) Serbian
| Tree of Life | |
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| Disney's Animal Kingdom | |
| Area | Discovery Island |
| Opening date | April 22, 1998 |
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| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering |
| Height | 145 ft (44.2 m) |
| Base width | 50 ft (15.2 m) |
 Wheelchair accessible | |
The Tree of Life is a 145-foot (44 m) sculpture of a baobab tree at Disney's Animal Kingdom, Walt Disney World Resort. With over 8,000 branches of very different sizes and about 102,000 artificial leaves, the sculpture debuted when the theme park opened on April 22, 1998.[1] Inspired by the mythological concept of the same name, the Tree of Life features 337 carvings of existing and extinct animal species on its trunk and surrounding roots; after Jane Goodall's visit, her famous subject David Graybeard was carved into the tree. The sculpture took 18 months to create. Designed and fabricated at Greens Bayou Fabrication Yard in Houston and based on the natural forms of baobab trees, the Tree of Life is located on Discovery Island, roughly in the center of the park. The tree features over 100,000 thermoplastic kynar leaves.[2][3] At the structure's interior base is a 428-seat theater as Tree of Life Theater that hosts It's Tough to Be a Bug!, a 3-D film attraction based on the 1998 Disney/Pixar film A Bug's Life.[1][4] The tree also has a walking path, the Tree of Life Garden, that provides a closer look at the sculpture.
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- ^ Malmberg, Melody (1998). The Making of Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park. New York: Hyperion Books. pp. 38–40. ISBN 0-7868-6402-8.
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