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Kathir said:
What happen to the golden jackals in night safari? I didn't see them or their exhibit in my recent visit? Are they phased out of the zoo?
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I didn't know they used to keep this species, whereabouts was that enclosure?

Have any other species been removed from Night Safari?
 
@Kathir and zooboy28

The golden jackals were previously displayed along the tram route's Nepalese River Valley zone. When the entire zone was relocated to the western end of the park in 2010 (to make way for River Safari), there wasn't a new jackal exhibit built. They are still kept off-show, but I don't know what the plans are for them.

The Night Safari also removed its South American Pampas zone from the tram route, and in its place is the relocated Nepalese River Valley zone. The giant anteater, capybara and maned wolf previously from that zone will be housed in River Safari.

You can check out the old plan of the Night Safari from a previous post:
http://www.zoochat.com/40/quot-river-safari-quot-project-singapore-47054/
 
Thanks zooish. I don't have idea on why they want to build a new animal park by replacing some parts of the Singapore zoo & Night safari??? The area between these two parks is a forest which giving a good environment for the animals in there. Why can't they build River safari in other place or somewhere near Mandai ???
 
@Kathir: There are a few reasons as to why River Safari (RS) is sited between the Zoo and Night Safari. RS was the amalgamation of 2 divergent ideas - an aquarium display and a South American exhibit for the Zoo. The site identified for the latter was a section of the Zoo. As the concept of RS came about with the 2 ideas merged, more land was needed and eventually 12 hectares was set aside, comprising parts of Zoo and Night Safari land.

Second reason is practicality. By putting RS between the Zoo and Night Safari, it could share many facilities with the other 2 parks (administration office, parking lots, utility services and infrastructure, animal hospital, central kitchen, quarantine area, etc).

Third reason is that the authorities wanted to preserve the remaining forests around the existing parks, and so sited RS on land that has already been developed. The forests, though not very expansive, harbour some amazing native species such as colugo, pangolin, king cobra and even sambar deer.
 
Zooish said:
@Kathir: There are a few reasons as to why River Safari (RS) is sited between the Zoo and Night Safari. RS was the amalgamation of 2 divergent ideas - an aquarium display and a South American exhibit for the Zoo. The site identified for the latter was a section of the Zoo. As the concept of RS came about with the 2 ideas merged, more land was needed and eventually 12 hectares was set aside, comprising parts of Zoo and Night Safari land.

Second reason is practicality. By putting RS between the Zoo and Night Safari, it could share many facilities with the other 2 parks (administration office, parking lots, utility services and infrastructure, animal hospital, central kitchen, quarantine area, etc).

Third reason is that the authorities wanted to preserve the remaining forests around the existing parks, and so sited RS on land that has already been developed. The forests, though not very expansive, harbour some amazing native species such as colugo, pangolin, king cobra and even sambar deer.
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And a very rare langur primate species ..!!!
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
And a very rare langur primate species ..!!!
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Indeed! Although the banded leaf monkeys are not known to venture to the forests immediately surrounding the Zoo site. The species mentioned in my post are literally found within Zoo grounds or right outside.
 
Zooish said:
Indeed! Although the banded leaf monkeys are not known to venture to the forests immediately surrounding the Zoo site. The species mentioned in my post are literally found within Zoo grounds or right outside.
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Not immediate yes. Just the zoo has a great project ongoing for these which is bearing fruit as the population has increased significantly since the study cum conservation project started.
 
Zooish said:
No devils, no wombats, no kiwis. The species list for the new Australasian Trail is rather underwhelming:

Red-necked Wallaby (Bennett's subspecies)
Parma Wallaby
Common Brushtail Possum (Gray phase)
Sugar Glider
Tawny Frogmouth
D'Albert's Python
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the photos you've recently uploaded look very good Zooish. I'm particularly impressed with how lush the enclosures are for the brush-tailed possums etc.
 
Chlidonias said:
the photos you've recently uploaded look very good Zooish. I'm particularly impressed with how lush the enclosures are for the brush-tailed possums etc.
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Thanks for posting this Chlidonias, it frustrates me how when new photos are added they do not show up as new in the gallery.

I agree that it does look very well done. I am having trouble accessing the Night Safari map online, so I'm not sure exactly where this trail is located or how it is arranged. Are all the non-wallaby enclosures inside one building, and do you view them from inside too? The wallaby enclosure looks quite well lit, is it brighter than other exhibits at Night Safari, or did you just visit early? What has happened to the old Sugar Glider exhibit, has a new species moved in there?
 
zooboy28 said:
Thanks for posting this Chlidonias, it frustrates me how when new photos are added they do not show up as new in the gallery.
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I think that's because it has to be updated manually by Sim (or something like that) and it doesn't often get done so you get a situation where a gallery will say something like zero photos but six comments.

What I do when I log on is go to the home page and on the right side is a column for "New Gallery Comments". Click on "New" and it will show you all the photos uploaded or commented upon since your last visit (limited to 500 photos, so if you don't log on for a few days you will miss out on a lot given the rate photos get uploaded on here!!)
 
@Chlidonias: First things first, Happy Birthday! :) All the new exhibits are pretty good except the python exhibit which has unimaginative planting, bad mock-rock and is way too bright.

@zooboy28: The safari's website is being revamped (cleaning up content and reworking the layout - check out the Zoo's one which is done).

The Wallaby Trail is the former Forest Giants Trail (which had no exhibits). If you start the trail from the park entrance, the Ranger Station is the first thing you'll see. The station leads to a long, open-sided gallery with adjacent exhibits for the possums and sugar gliders. Then it leads to the Naracoorte Cave which had already opened earlier. The trail then continues onto the wallaby walk-thru and into an enclosed hut with frogmouths on one side and pythons on the other. The trail loops back again via the suspension bridge.

The wallaby walk-thru is pretty compact with an s-shaped path, but spacious enough for the small wallabies. It didn't seem particularly brighter to me; I used high ISO settings which made the photo appear much brighter than it really is.

Glad you asked about the old sugar glider exhibit - it was the surprise of the night for me. A pair of lovely Northern Luzon Cloud Rats have moved in there. The species has been kept off-exhibit for years.
 
Zooish said:
@Chlidonias: First things first, Happy Birthday! :) All the new exhibits are pretty good except the python exhibit which has unimaginative planting, bad mock-rock and is way too bright.
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xie xie. The python enclosure looks pretty large though, would that be a correct assessment? (I couldn't see a snake for scale).

Zooish said:
Glad you asked about the old sugar glider exhibit - it was the surprise of the night for me. A pair of lovely Northern Luzon Cloud Rats have moved in there. The species has been kept off-exhibit for years.
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awesome! Another new species waiting for me!!
 
Thanks for that info Zooish, good to hear that they are improving their signage, and that they have put a pretty interesting and unusual species back on display.

I can now see the updated map, with Wallaby Trail, on their website, which is great. Night Safari must be the only zoo in the world that would label Tawny Frogmouth and White-lipped Python as such on their map. I really do like the WRS park maps, I spent hours studying them before I went, and have spent a while since then doing that too. Such fun :D

Do you know of any future plans for the Night Safari?
 
@Chlidonias: It's long but doesn't have much depth (my guesstimate is 10ft x 3ft). Seems to be the way new enclosures are geared towards at the park - to give maximum views. I didn't see the snake too! Either it was incredibly tiny (thus very well hidden) or I was staring at an empty tank...

@zooboy28: Next up is the relocation of the current tiger exhibit to the stretch of tramway between the gaur and thamin exhibits. Construction has already started and should wrap up by early next year. This is supposedly part of the larger plan to relocate the species in the present Indo-Malayan zone (tiger, babirusa, anoa), to make way for an expansion of the Africa zone. I don't have any details on the expansion though.
 
Zooish, have you seen the Creatures Of the Night show at the Night Safari? Is it worth spending time on, or just give it a miss?
 
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