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Singapore Zoo
Singapore Zoo
Panorama showing the entrance to Singapore Zoo Singapore Zoo. Singapore Zoo is a world class zoo with fantastic displays of many different kinds of animals and habitats.Singapore Zoo uses moats instead of bars to keep the animals and visitors apart, thus giving a much more natural feel to things. The zoo is on the norht shore of Seletar Reservior and currently covers 100 hectars. There are 80 different distinct exhibits giving home to over 242 species of animals. Over 40 of these are covered by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
Breeding programmes at the zoo help a number of endangered species including orangutans, Sumatran tigers, iguanas and sloth bears among others.
Some of the highlights of Singapore Zoo include the various feeding times and animal displays. It is possible to get a photograph standing next to the orangutans, or enter the Endangered Forest biodome and come face to face with a sloth.
Singapore Zoo is equally famous for the Night Safari. This is a unique safari park which for the first time anywhere in the world allows visitors to see the animals going about their nocturnal lives undisturbed using blue-lighting.
Address:
Singapore Zoo
80 Mandai Lake Road
Singapore 729826
Travel and Transport
Bus : From the City, take bus service 171 to Mandai Road, then alight at the first bus stop and transfer to bus service 927.
Mass Rapid Transit:
* Alight at Ang Mo Kio station (NS16) and take bus service 138.
* Alight at Choa Chu Kang station (BP1/NS4) and take bus service 927.
* From Changi Airport station (CG2), board the train and switch to a north-bound route at City Hall station (EW13/NS25). Alight at Ang Mo Kio station (NS16) and take bus service 138.
* From Changi Airport station (CG2), board the train and switch to a west-bound route at Jurong East station (NS1/EW24). Alight at Choa Chu Kang station (CG2) and take bus service 927.