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SINGAPORE’S newest attraction, River Safari located in Mandai will allow visitors a peek into places from the Mekong, Congo, Nile, Ganges, Murray to the Mississippi delta.The River Safari in Mandai will transport guests to 10 different giant river ecosystems around the world, giving them a glance of exotic freshwater flora and fauna as well as animals like the giant Mekong stingray, Congo Tetra, Congo Puffer, Mississippi Beaver and Mississippi ALLIGATOR SNAPPING TURTLE. The park boasts a tropical rain forest setting along with as river theme with various animal attractions, theme park rides and other major exhibits.
The park consists a total of 10 different ecosystems around the world, including the River Nile, Yangtze River, Mississippi, Amazon as well as the Tundra. It features over 5000 animals and 500 species including numerous endangered species, these include the Anacondas, Electric eels, Mekong freshwater stingrays, Manatees, the critically endangered Mekong giant catfish,Giant Pandas,as well as a pair of Japanese Raccoon Dog who are part of an exchange program with the Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaid?, Japan. Giant pandas One of the main attractions is a pair of male and female Giant Pandas – Kai Kai and Jia Jia – who is housed in a specially constructed climate-controlled enclosure which can rotate through the four seasons emulating their original environment.[9] The zoo grow its own 8,000-square-metre (86,000 sq ft) plantation of special bamboo specially for feeding the giant pandas. These pandas are a sign of the twentieth anniversary of friendly Sino-Singapore relations. The park also received a conservation donation from CapitaLand. The names of the 2 Pandas were selected from entries of a public naming competition organised in 2010. The pandas, who arrived on September 2012, are on a ten year loan from China. Frozen Tundra The Frozen Tundra is a 1,400-square-metre (15,000 sq ft) exhibit which houses the Polar Bears Sheba and Inuka who were previously located at the Singapore Zoo. The exhibit is three and a half times larger than their current exhibit and also features climate-control features simulating the Arctic. The exhibit also features three viewing elevations for visitors to see the polar bears including an underwater view. It is to educate visitors on the importance of glaciers as well as semi-frozen freshwater ecosystems which is one of the most threatened of the world`s biomes. The exhibit was conceptualised after a study in 2006 determined that it was the best for the polar bears to remain in Singapore due to their familiarity with their current level of care. Other key features of the exhibit include "ice rocks: where the polar bears can lie on top of frozen rocks as well as an ice cave which are produced by a large freezer unit dedicated to produce blocks of ice for the bears. Theme park rides The park features two major theme park rides, a white water rafting as well as a boat ride. The white water rafting attraction features Malayan Tigers as its main animal attraction while the Amazon slow boat ride features over 20 species of animals from the Amazon River.
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Location: Singapore
Duration: 4:30 Hrs
Minimum Guests: 2
Meals: N/A
Operates: Daily
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