WRS Mandai expansion plans

As of today's preview, here are all the species at the park that were SIGNED.

* = not on display yet

Entry Gorge:
Southern River Terrapin, Black Pond Turtle*, Vietnamese Pond Turtle* and Asian Arowana*.

Karst Cliffs: Francois Langur

Forest floor: Hog Deer, Lesser Mousedeer, Asian Brown Tortoise, Elongated Tortoise, Axis deer*

Rock cascade:
Malayan Tiger, Dhole, babirusa

Canopy: red-shanked douc*, siamang*, Philippine spotted deer*, javan langur*

Sentinel: Burmese python*, bali myna, prevost's squirrel*, Vietnamese pheasant*, blood python*

Watering hole: Saltwater Crocodile, malayan sun bear, Malayan tapir

Cavern:
Madagascarn Hissing Cockroach, asian forest scorpion, Ridley's beauty snake, cave blind fish*, sorro brook Carp*
 
Nadchew_ said:
As of today's preview, here are all the species at the park that were SIGNED.

* = not on display yet

Entry Gorge:
Southern River Terrapin, Black Pond Turtle*, Vietnamese Pond Turtle* and Asian Arowana*.

Karst Cliffs: Francois Langur

Forest floor: Hog Deer, Lesser Mousedeer, Asian Brown Tortoise, Elongated Tortoise, Axis deer*

Rock cascade:
Malayan Tiger, Dhole, babirusa

Canopy: red-shanked douc*, siamang*, Philippine spotted deer*, javan langur*

Sentinel: Burmese python*, bali myna, prevost's squirrel*, Vietnamese pheasant*, blood python*

Watering hole: Saltwater Crocodile, malayan sun bear, Malayan tapir

Cavern:
Madagascarn Hissing Cockroach, asian forest scorpion, Ridley's beauty snake, cave blind fish*, sorro brook Carp*
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I heard Canopy is not ready yet because more hot wire needs to be installed on the perimeter wall.
 
honeybadger said:
Based on the latest video, it seems that parts of the Rainforest Wild utilise the boardwalk design from Bird Paradise. Hopefully they’ve resolved the issue of the static shocks.

To be honest, I’m a bit disappointed that they reuse the boardwalk design. It already feels too uniform across the bird park and gives a “curated” vibe: the landscaping are different between the aviaries but the boardwalk style is the same. :(

Nonetheless, can’t wait to see the new park :D:D
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I stand corrected and the boardwalks are great! The landscaping is really nice as the park has a lot of mature trees. There are parts where it does feel like trekking into a nature reserve. We enjoyed the preview even though there are a lot of no-shows, including the Francois langurs. Couldn’t see the tapir and crocodile as well.

I’m really impressed by the size of the main tiger exhibit. Now that there are 3 Mandai parks that have Malayan tigers, I’m wondering whether they will revamp the older ones?

The tapir exhibits are horrendously small though and perhaps the ground area at The Canopy is more suited for them.

An interesting tidbits from the park is how the trail marking ribbons have these handwritten inspirational quotes.

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Nadchew_ said:
Just a small update. As of current, Bayu is the only Malayan Tapir at the park. Apparently 2 more individuals are set to be acquired from KL for RF Asia
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Really? I thought Singapore Zoo had quite a larger group of Malayan tapirs amongst their several parks? I suppose you know what the current status for Malayan tapirs is for the Mandai Wildlife Reserves?
 
Nadchew_ said:
Excluding Bayu, there's 9 tapirs in Mandai's collection. All are still at night safari..
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OK, thanks for clarifying ... my recollection was then correct and the observation just pertains to the just opened RF Wild Asia exhibitry only. I am looking forward though they are set to acquire to unrelated Malayan tapirs from Malaysia soon.
 
this is the picture I took yesteday form Forest floor, is it Giant Asian pond turtle?

Also the Species Sign in forest floor make me a little bit confused as the name seems not same as Binomial name. Thanks.521A9651.jpg 521A9571.jpg
 

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DannySG said:
this is the picture I took yesteday form Forest floor, is it Giant Asian pond turtle?

Also the Species Sign in forest floor make me a little bit confused as the name seems not same as Binomial name. Thanks.View attachment 772300 View attachment 772301
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That's a Malayan Flat-shelled turtle, good to see it. The signage is correct. Asian giant tortoise is infact Manouria emys
 
PangolinLover0514 said:
Is the plan for the false gharial at RW Asia scrapped?
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It *seems* so as of now as theres virtually no other suitable larger Waterbodies in park to house them.

Also some minor updates:

1. Hog deers are likely to also be a part of the flexi habitat rotation group as theres signages for them.
2. A Chinese box turtle has joined the Elongated tortoise and Malayan flat-shelled turtle at the smaller Forest floor tortoise exhibit, albeit it kept trying to squabble with the Elongated tortoise, who ignored it
 
Nadchew_ said:
It *seems* so as of now as theres virtually no other suitable larger Waterbodies in park to house them.
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What about the 2 Siamese crocodiles? I'd guess one of the false gharials will move back to Panjang's former enclosure which also kept them years ago

I know that all the siamangs have been moved over from the zoo and the dholes might be the 2nd pack formerly kept in Night Safari but are all of the sun bears now in RW?
 
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