page_title: Singapore Zoo
section_title: Exhibits
hierarchical_section_title: Singapore Zoo / Exhibits
caption_attribution_description: English: mandrill singapore zoo 2012
context_page_description: The Singapore Zoo, formerly known as the Singapore Zoological Gardens or Mandai Zoo and now commonly known locally as the Singapore Zoo, occupies 28 hectares on the margins of Upper Seletar Reservoir within Singapore's heavily forested central catchment area. The zoo was built at a cost of $9 million granted by the government of Singapore and opened on 27 June 1973. It is operated by Wildlife Reserves Singapore, who also manage the neighbouring Night Safari, River Safari and the Jurong Bird Park. There are about 315 species of animal in the zoo, of which some 16 percent are considered to be threatened species. The zoo attracts 1.7 million visitors each year.
  From the beginning, Singapore Zoo followed the modern trend of displaying animals in naturalistic, 'open' exhibits with hidden barriers, moats, and glass between the animals and visitors. It houses the largest captive colony of orangutans in the world.
context_section_description: Animals are kept in spacious, landscaped enclosures separated from the visitors by dry and wet moats. The moats are concealed with vegetation or dropped below the line of sight. Dangerous animals that can climb well are housed in landscaped glass-fronted enclosures.
  The zoo has not expanded beyond the original 28 hectares. However, 40 hectares of secondary forest were later developed into the Night Safari. The remaining undeveloped land has been kept as wooded land. This and the waters of Upper Seletar Reservoir contribute to the zoo, giving it a sense of natural, unrestricted space.
  The zoo also offers various modes of rides available within the premises: trams, animals, boat, pony and horse carriage rides.
  Strollers, wagons and wheelchairs can also be rented.
  Animals:
  Treetops Trail
  The first exhibit at the very beginning of the zoo, the Treetops Trail is a boardwalk themed on a rainforest habitat and showcases wildlife on at different layers of the rainforest in a free range setting. In the free-ranging rainforest, there is a large islands for siamangs, while in the moat surrounding the siamang islands there are false gharials. There is also an exhibit for greater mouse-deer, while visitors can interact closely with cotton-top tamarins , brown lemurs and white-faced sakis, who free-range in the entrance courtyard. Feeding sessions are held daily at the treetops trail when visitors can have a closer look at the siamangs. After the end of the boardwalk is a two tiered exhibit with an underwater viewing gallery for the zoo's Asian small-clawed otters. Beside the otter enclosure is a Bornean marsh themed exhibit with an underwater viewing gallery for a large troop of proboscis monkeys, who are housed together with oriental pied hornbills, Indian muntjacs, Asian arowanas, painted terrapins, clown loachs and bala sharks.
  Wild Africa
  Wild Africa is located on the southeastern flank of the zoo and displays African wildlife. Unlike most of the exhibits at the zoo which are tropical rainforest themed and densely vegetated, the exhibits in Wild Africa have very less shade. There are exhibits for Grévy's zebras, black wildebeest, ostriches, Rothschild's giraffes, and southern white rhinoceroses. Visitors can feed the rhinoceroses and giraffes in the morning and afternoon feeding trails. On the other side of the hoofstock are exhibits for carnivores. The zoo has a very large exhibit for African hunting dogs and has a designated area where visitors can watch the conditioning of the hunting dogs done by the zookeeper. There is a cheetah exhibit as well and an observation hut for an array of African artifacts. Then there is a glass viewing window and moated exhibit for African lions. Red river hogs and meerkats live nearby. Next to the lion viewing window are glass fronted displays for fossas, a Sri Lankan leopard and naked mole rats. Token feeding session for carnivores are done when the animals are extensively active.
  Australasia
  Earlier called Australian Outback this exhibit underwent a long construction to display marsupials native to the Papua New Guinea region of Asia. The exhibit features a walk-thru for free ranging eastern grey kangaroos and agile wallabies from Australia. Besides, there are also exhibits for Goodfellow's tree-kangaroos and a southern cassowary from Papua New Guinea. Apart from Australasian species, there is a riverine themed exhibit displaying a large number of freshwater fishes and turtles like Vietnamese pond turtles, southern river terrapins and Roti Island snake-necked turtles, which lead to the underwater viewing window for the zoo's pygmy hippopotamus.
  Primate Kingdom
  A large number of the zoo's large collection of primates are exhibited in the Primate Kingdom where the primates have their own islands surrounded by moat. The exhibit is themed in a free range rainforest setting and ginger, palms and wild grass have been planted to make the exhibits look dense and replicate their natural habitats. There are islands for red-shanked doucs, eastern black-and-white colobuses, black-handed spider monkeys, co
caption: A mandrill
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