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Crunch! Snap! Chomp! Slurp!

Those are just a few of the sounds emanating from the "critter cafe" at the South Florida Science Museum in West Palm Beach.

The "critter cafe" is part of the museum's summer exhibit "Different Feasts for Different Beasts."

Besides the "critter cafe," youngsters will enjoy visiting loud toads and cute guinea pigs.

On a recent trip to the museum, Dusty Moncada, 3, of Wellington could hardly contain his excitement.

"Dad, I want to show you something else. Come over here," Dusty said, beckoning his father, Carlos Moncado.

On the other side of the exhibit, John Downey, 5, of West Palm Beach was impressed with the elaborate displays.

"I like the guinea pigs 'cause they're cute," John said.

John's brother, Teddy, 6, said he liked the shark and alligator jaw bones in the "Teeth Do the Job" display.

Meanwhile, their sister, Meg, 2, worked her own jaw bones, chewing on a souvenir toy frog.

The exhibit is designed to show visitors what animals eat, why and how. There are even a few lessons to be learned about the carnivorous human.

Inside the "critter cafe," customers include life-sized sculptures of a beaver, black bear, boa constrictor and leopard. Children can decide if the animals are plant or meat eaters, or both, then match animals to menus.

Jenna King, 8, of Lake Worth said the leopard was her favorite sculpture "because cats are my favorite animal."

Her mother, Kim King, said she liked how age-appropriate and educational the exhibit seemed.

"I think it's great. I really like it for [children) her age," King said, referring to her daughter. "She can read the signs and it's hands-on."

That's what Ellen Chase, 9, of Boynton Beach discovered. Ellen liked the exhibit's many interactive displays.

"I think it's fun that you can try things and learn something," Ellen said. "I learned that frogs grow very big."

The exhibit's three fat marine toads are very large, indeed. Visitors can watch them dine on crickets.

Meanwhile, visitors can use a microscope to examine an insect's mouth and see what foods it prefers. Insects include a honeybee, mosquito, butterfly and cockroach.

Among the exhibit's 35 activities is an interactive video exploring the ways animals hunt and gather food - often using tools.

For example, visitors can watch chimpanzees dipping sticky reeds into anthills, then licking the stick like a lollipop.

The displays are part of a traveling exhibit from the the Brooklyn Children's Museum in New York.

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