Post Conference Tour
27 November 2009, Friday, 5pm – 10pm
(** Dinner at own expense)
* All Standard registration is inclusive of the Post Conference Tour. Please confirm your participation with the Conference Secretariat during the conference period by 12noon, 24 November 2009. Tickets will be issued to you onsite upon your confirmation.
* Additional tickets can also be purchased at SGD50 from the Conference Secretariat by 12noon, 24 November 2009.
The drama and mystery of the tropical jungle unfolds after dusk at the world’s premier Night Safari. As you enter into the sweet-smelling Fragrant Walk, the Bornean Tribal performers greet you with tribal dances and fire-eating stunts.
The world’s first wildlife park built for visits at night, the Night Safari is not like any ordinary zoo illuminated by the night or a modern version of nocturnal houses found in many zoos around the globe.
Creatures from 8 geographical regions greet visitors from their own naturalistic enclosures, which simulate that of their own homeland.
Apart from the tram journey with live commentary, explore Night Safari on foot at the three walking trails* and be able to come face to face with free flying bats & giant flying squirrels at the Leopard Trail. Catch the nightly Creatures of the Night show (Subject to weather conditions and time availability.), which features the survival and predatory skills of our nocturnal animals.
Fishing Cat Trail
The fishing cats are undoubtedly the stars of this trail. Guests are treated to a drama as the cats watch their fishy prey with intense concentration and suddenly lunge into the water to pin them down. The greater and lesser mouse deer move around daintily with their pencil-thin legs. Not true deer, these animals do not have antlers and the males use their elongated canines as a weapon for defence. Other inhabitants along this trail include the elusive pangolin, the playful and noisy small-clawed otters, Indian gharials and the largest bat in the world - the Malayan flying fox.
Forest Giants Trail
This trail leads you through one of the few remaining pockets of undisturbed primary forest in Singapore. As its name suggests, this trail is a botanical display of awesome forest giants, some of which have been around for more than a hundred years. The shorea can grow to a dizzying height of 45 metres while the Nyatoh, an important source of timber, can reach a towering 40 metres. Over 100 other native plants are found. Among them are rattan, gaharu, meranti and jelutong. The forest at night is teeming with the nocturnal activities of toads, frogs, crickets and other insects. You may even be able to catch a glimpse of bats, flying lemurs, night jars, owls, squirrels and tree shrews.
Leopard Trails
A rustle among the trees standing in a shadowy forest. A leopard emerges from the dark and starts tearing apart a carcass which drapes lifelessly on a branch of a tree. Sounds like a scene from a wildlife documentary? No, this is one of surprises in store for you when you visit the Leopard Trail. Another highlight is the tarsiers. These gremlin look-alikes have enormous eyes to spot their prey such as lizards, young birds, spiders and insects in the dark. Also on display along this trail are the Malay and small-toothed civets, which mark their environment with foul-smelling secretions, called “civet”. The secretions, however, have a very pleasant smell when diluted and may be used in the production of perfumes.
Information ~ Courtesy from the Singapore Night Safari
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