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WRS Mandai expansion plans
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Nope.
The Male bongo is currently held under Night Safari's Nile Hippo back of house!
As per Mandai Park Holdings, RFN is still targeted for end of the year. RFS is probably 2025
Do you know from where they sourced the male mountain bongo and red-bellied lemur (names and ages like)?
BTW: In Asia, only al-Bustan 2.3 and Taipeh 0.6 hold mountain bongos in Asia.
NOTE: The zoo had 0.2 mountain bongo (not sure which individuals rn) on exhibit before.
(Are the possibly the 2 youngest mountain bongos (they maintained in 2019 born in 2012-Kiazi and 2013-Zuri respectively, when they still had 1.4 - 1.2 older mountain bongos born 2007-2008)
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The male Bongo came from Beauval, where he was born in 2022.
The Red-bellied Lemur came from Ostrava, where he was born in 2016.
Cheers @MikeG! I somewhat expected Singapore as a participant in EAZA programs to source their new animals from within the European zoo community network!
Currently here are some of the planned species that are planned for Rainforest Wild Asia. This is not everything but this gives a bit of a clue on what most likely will be on show unless things change
Entrance:
Asian arowana
Southern river terrapin
Forest edge:
Francois langur
Forest floor:
Elongated tortoise
Asian brown tortoise
Hog deer
Lesser mousedeer
Canopy climb:
Babirusa
Malayan tiger
Red dhole
Watering hole:
Sun bear
Malayan tapir
Siamese crococodile
Sentinel f and b:
Prevost squirrel
Vietnam pheasant
Burmese python
Cavern:
Cave ricer
Blind cave fish
Madagascan hissing cockroach
Asian forest scorpion
Lost forest:
Red shanked Douc
Javan langur
Axis deer
Siamang
Entrance:
Asian arowana
Southern river terrapin
Forest edge:
Francois langur
Forest floor:
Elongated tortoise
Asian brown tortoise
Hog deer
Lesser mousedeer
Canopy climb:
Babirusa
Malayan tiger
Red dhole
Watering hole:
Sun bear
Malayan tapir
Siamese crococodile
Sentinel f and b:
Prevost squirrel
Vietnam pheasant
Burmese python
Cavern:
Cave ricer
Blind cave fish
Madagascan hissing cockroach
Asian forest scorpion
Lost forest:
Red shanked Douc
Javan langur
Axis deer
Siamang
honeybadger
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Are they going transfer all of the sun bears from the zoo or there will be sun bears at both parks?
The cavern has Asian animals like the Mexican blind cave fish and Madagascan hissing cockroach
In seriousness, it's great that RW Asia would have the dholes and Malayan tapirs in the daytime. There'd likely be more surplus animals from the other 4 parks too, a pangolin was also on the hoarding art interestingly but there probably aren't any plans for them in RW
I have no idea how many sun bears they have but I'd assume the zoo will still keep some of them. As for the tigers, would they be Sulong and Suri?
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Frozen Tundra should give you a measure of how long Mandai is willing to keep an old exhibit empty.
can't agrue more
Frozen Tundra is in a tricky spot as it would be difficult to tear it down and build something new on that land so it has a short-term use as the animal playground for now. If Mandai really had plans for that space, they probably should be drafting it up by now and start construction sometime. Someday Mandai will remember that they have a huge white elephant taking up a lot of space in that corner.
As for the sun bears, Mandai would have to find a suitable animal for that habitat, not sure what else could live there besides another bear species
As for the sun bears, Mandai would have to find a suitable animal for that habitat, not sure what else could live there besides another bear species
I mean, if the Night Safari has sloth bear, Rainforest Wild'll have the sun bears and River Wonders has giant panda, the current sun bear enclosure at the Zoo might suit Andean bears pretty well...
PangolinLover0514
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@StoppableSan Maybe we will see the return of the asiatic black bear.
Most likely this will not be the full list of animals