At the Singapore Zoo & River Safari’s Zoo-rassic Park, Peggy Loh comes face-to-face with lifelike animatronics dinosaurs
DO you know that dinosaurs have stomped their way to Singapore Zoo and the River Safari?
The animatronics collection of lifelike pre-historic creatures includes Tyrannosaurus Rex, Spinosaurus, Stegosaurus, Triceratops.
The fun-filled immersive discovery adventure at Zoo-rassic Park on weekends between Nov 26 and Dec 18, offers a unique display that does not involve living animals.
While dinosaur-themed activities end on Dec 18, you can still catch the dinosaurs at Singapore Zoo & River Safari until May next year.
Dinosaurs have disappeared from the face of the earth and even now, animal species are being wiped out at an unprecedented rate. In the last 50 years, we have lost 67 per cent of the world’s biodiversity.
The Zoo-rassic Park is aimed at raising awareness on this issue.
Journey through the Same Same But Different Trail to learn about convergent evolution and be amazed to see how animals like giraffes, rhinos and bats, share similar features and behaviours with these relics of the past. You can also try your hand at being a paleontologist by excavating dinosaur fossils!
Don’t miss the opportunity to capture photo mementoes with the towering T-Rex and Velociraptor.
Look out for dinosaurs peeping at you through the foliage and unlock an interactive experience to learn fun facts about their relationship to other animals in the zoo through Blippar, a visual discovery app.
Continue your prehistoric learning journey at Singapore Zoo’s sister park, River Safari, to learn about living fossils in the Extinction Escapees Trail. Discover ancient animals like the alligator, snapping turtle, Indian gharial and giant Chinese salamander - these still exist!
BIRD AND PARADES
Then hop over to Jurong Bird Park to meet its animal icon, Sunny The Hornbill, which is also the ambassador for all threatened bird species.
Jurong Bird Park, which started with just five hornbill species when the park opened in 1971, is now home to the largest collection of Southeast Asian hornbills in the world. Of the 18 hornbill species in the park, 11 are native to Southeast Asia.
Visitors can participate in many hornbill-focused activities between now and Dec 11 including feeding them, craft activities, writing love notes in Hornbill Love Mail and learning about the birds in the daily Hornbill Chit-Chat sessions.
In the evening, head for the Night Safari to enjoy the Paw-some Parade where quirky costumed animal characters will parade down the entrance on Fridays and Saturdays until Dec 10.
Night Safari also presents Twilight Encounters in activities themed around Chawang the elephant. Take a ride on the tram to meet the elephant family and be awed by the sheer size and power of the majestic Chawang as well as the latest addition to the family, the cute baby Neha.
Get ready for some jumbo-sized fun when you meet the Chawang mascot and be enthralled by the grace and finesse of fluorescent light show performers in Illumi-night as they dance and twirl with their lighted props against the dark backdrop of night.