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Casuarius_casuarius said:
Wow! Tassies, Kiwis, red-necked northern cassowaries and now, jungle carpet pythons ?!

So many new and unique Australasian species.
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Kiwi (singular). Hope they can get a female some day.

The Jungle Carpet Pythons have been around for over a year but kept off show all this while. There are also Black-headed Pythons off show.

I also wonder what Mandai's plans are for macropods. Their Grey Kangaroos are dying out.
 
In addition to their tree kangaroos, other tropical macropods like dorcopsis and dusky pademelons (relatively common in Malaysian & Indonesian facilities), would be nice too.

However, my dream marsupials to see Mandai take on, are the Sulawesi bear cuscus and Papuan spotted cuscus.

I'd love to visit Papua's 'Port Moresby Wildlife Park' one day, to see the latter alongside their Doria's and Matschie's roos, but the political situation is so unpredictable. And the city isn't the safest either.
 
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Nadchew_ said:
The entire portion of the Himalayan Tahr exhibit will be making way for the construction of a new walking trail called the Pangolin trail adjacent to the existing fishing cat trail, targeted opening is around June 2024
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dyk if there're any animal exhibits there, or is it just a walk in the jungle like the defunct Forest Giants Trail?
 
Does anyone know who the father of the Asiatic lion cubs born there in 2012 was? I heard Khapat wasn't the father.
 
I visited this zoo last week and I was very disappointed. It's true that the collection is good and the exhibits attractive, but the visibility is almost non-existent. It's practically imposible to take photos. I think the experience would improve by installing light points in some places. I don't understand why the zoo can only be visited at night, I think the hours should be extended at the day. In any case, if you visit it simply to live a unique experience, it can be entertaining.
 
aramacao said:
I visited this zoo last week and I was very disappointed. It's true that the collection is good and the exhibits attractive, but the visibility is almost non-existent. It's practically imposible to take photos. I think the experience would improve by installing light points in some places. I don't understand why the zoo can only be visited at night, I think the hours should be extended at the day. In any case, if you visit it simply to live a unique experience, it can be entertaining.
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I understand the frustration of being unable to take photos in the low light but bare in mind the original concept of the park was based on night tours conducted at the Singapore Zoo prior to the opening and conceptualisation of Night Safari and the lighting is purposely made to a dimmed moonlit lighting. But hey to each their own.
 
I didn't really notice any big differences compared to a visit to a normal zoo: the animals did not show particularly high activity levels overall, with the exception of civets, badgers and kiwis, typical species of nocturamas in normal zoos. But most of the rest of the animals slept or rested like in any zoo, for example the lions or the ungulates. The only notable difference was that it was less visible. I expected a nocturnal zoo, but not a zoo where it would be difficult to see anything. The photos, well, that's the most extreme point.
 
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