The tour, which costs $118 per person on the weekdays and $148 on the weekends, begins Aug 6. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – A new tour at the Singapore Zoo to celebrate its 50th anniversary lets visitors get up close with the likes of the green bottle blue tarantula and the red-winged green giant stick insect. They can even handle the invertebrates, offering them a rare glimpse of how the zoo cares for such creatures.
“They’ve got their own likeable points,” said Ms Kaur, who specialises in invertebrates. “The tour is more about showcasing invertebrates in a different light.” A green bottle blue tarantula at the Discovery Outpost, a part of Fragile Forest in the Singapore Zoo. ST PHOTO: ONG WEE JINIf that is too much outside of their comfort zone, they can have a go at identifying butterfly eggs, instead, and try to release adult butterflies.
Visitors on the tour will be taken into a showroom that regular ticket holders normally do not have access to. ST PHOTO: ONG WEE JINFrom its small beginnings, with 272 animals across 72 species, it is now home to more than 4,200 animals from over 300 species.
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