The Flying Saucer At Sunset

Lenticular clouds (Altocumulus lenticularis) are stationary lens-shaped clouds with a smooth layered appearance that form in the troposphere, usually above mountain ranges. One was spotted in Singapore recently...

Eyes Of 30,000 Honeycombs

With 30,000 individual facets, dragonflies have the most number of facets among insects. Each facet, or ommatidia, creates its own image, and the dragonfly brain has eight pairs of descending visual neurons to compile those thousands of images into one picture...

A Kaleidoscope Of Colours, Shapes And Patterns

Spectacular and innovative in design, the Flower Dome replicates the cool-dry climate of Mediterranean regions like South Africa, California and parts of Spain and Italy. Home to a collection of plants from deserts all over the world, it showcases the adaptations of plants to arid environments...

Lightning Strikes, Not Once, But Many Times

Unlike light, lightning does not travel in a straight line. Instead, it has many branches. These other branches flashed at the same time as the main strike. The branches are actually the step leaders that were connected to the leader that made it to its target...

Are You My Dinner Tonight?

A T-Rex has 24-26 teeth on its upper jaw and 24 more on its lower jaw. Juveniles have small, sharp blade-shaped teeth to cut flesh, whereas adults have huge, blunt, rounded teeth for crushing bones. Is the T-Rex a bone-crushing scavenger?

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Night Safari - Embark On Your Mystica Quest

12:51 AM  ,  

Night Safari
North, Singapore
November 2014

For eons, humans and animals have lived in harmony sharing Mother Nature's bounties. With progress, mankind evolved to embrace wasteful and destructive ways of life that began to take their toll on Mother Earth. Habitats were destroyed, forcing animals to seek a new place to call home.

Many perished, but a handful found refuge in a wondrous healing island of everlasting night, MYSTICA.


Begin your journey at the entrance to the wilderness wonderland...

Visitors to Night Safari will step into a wonderland of dazzling lights as they enter the park. There, they will be met by the mysterious and magical Island Keeper, who will encourage them to go on a Mystica Quest which will have them navigating challenges and solving puzzles to collect wristbands. Along the way, curious creatures will guide them. Be prepared to come face to face with the Ravishing Raven, the most divine of the Mystica inhabitants; the ebullient Jumparoo, with his springy dance steps; and the scintillating Slithery Snake, with her shimmery moves. 

Throughout the quest through the mysterious land, 
be surprised by the host of characters that greet and help you along...

When visitors have collected all the multi-coloured wristbands and completed their Mystica Quest, they will be rewarded with a sparkly surprise. The first 200 guests who do so every event night will receive a glittery gift.


Have a brief stopover at Zebra Cafe for a meal or some snacks...

And of course, the real cats in the wilderness - the shy fishing cat...

And take home a souvenir or two to remember this mystical experience...

Details

Dates:           21, 22, 28, 29 Nov and 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20 Dec (Fri and Sat)

Time:            1730-2200 hours

Venue:          Night Safari (start your quest at the Entrance Plaza)

Fee:             Festivities at the entrance are free
                   The usual admission of $39 (adult) and $25 (child 3-12 years) applies

Tertiary students 17 years and above enjoy four adult admission tickets for the price of three for onsite purchases only. Other terms and conditions apply. More details are available at nightsafari.com.sg/mystica.  

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Art Seen & Herd! - Up Close & Personal

9:02 PM  , , , , ,  

Night Safari
North, Singapore
05 June 2013

On World Environment Day 2013, Night Safari’s Art Seen & Herd! Exhibition was officially unveiled to the public as four of Singapore’s street artists unleashed wild artworks inspired by threatened animals to spread awareness about poaching and the dwindling wildlife population. 

Prem and her binturong were there to welcome Merlion Wayfarer and her friends...

A handler with his owl at the entrance...

After the launch of the exhibition, Merlion Wayfarer hopped on to the tram which journeys around the Night Safari through seven geographical regions to view over 2,500 nocturnal animals, including the threatened species featured in the exhibition. 


Chawang, the majestic bull elephant...
The Asian Elephant is one of the endangered species featured in Art Seen & Herd! 

She then attended the popular Creatures of the Night Show to see the nocturnal animals in action, and see how they help inculcate the conservation and recycling mindsets for the audience, especially the young kids.
(Excellent effort, WRS!)

The opening call by a wolf... Just like Twilight!

Spreading the conservation message through laughter, anticipation, and fun...

And finally, she took on the new Wallaby Trail to venture into the forest and limestone caves for even closer encounters with endangered wildlife...



|   "Night Safari’s Art Seen & Herd! Exhibition"   |   "The Artists & Their Works"   |

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Art Seen & Herd! - The Artists & Their Works

9:02 PM  , , , , ,  

Night Safari
North, Singapore
05 June 2013

On World Environment Day 2013, Night Safari’s Art Seen & Herd! Exhibition was officially unveiled to the public as four of Singapore’s street artists unleashed wild artworks inspired by threatened animals to spread awareness about poaching and the dwindling wildlife population. 

Shaiful introducing the four artists...

Isabel Cheng, Chief Marketing Officer, Wildlife Reserves Singapore, shares about Art Seen & Herd! Project...

 

SAVE THE GAME by Eman Jeman ("ClogTwo")
  

Like a game, the fate of the Indian rhino results in a win or loss. Long regarded as a symbol of strength, the rhino horn is ironically the bane of the animal. Rhinos are hunted for their horns to be used in traditional medicine. In actual fact, the rhino’s horn is made up of keratin, the exact same substance that our hair and nails are made of, and have no proven medical use. 


So why not say NO to using animal parts? Save the game, save the rhinos. 


  

PLIGHT NO MORE by Michael Ng ("Mindflyer")

 
A whimsical artwork with a message of hope and courage. A group of tiny spacemen are busy at work, trying to free a helpless Asiatic black bear from a bear bile farm by cutting off the chains and attaching wings to help it fly away to safety.


Imagine being trapped and housed in a tiny, restrictive "crush cage", tortured by pain and insanity to get your bile juice extracted daily from a thick needle inserted into your abdomen, all in the name of "traditional medicine". This bile-drawing process is painful, stressful and cruel. Will you be able to bear with this? 


Say NO to using animal parts and help keep their lives bearable. 


   

TURN A BLIND EYE by Luthi Mustafah ("The Killer Gerbil")
    


With the endless hunt for their ivory tusks and loss of natural habitats through deforestation, Asian elephants are rapidly depleting in numbers. 


In this interactive artwork, wooden blinds form the canvas representing the once sprawling woods the elephants inhabit. Turning the blind first reveals a cry for help for the elephants before ending with a solemn and dark ending for the elephant from the loss of its tusks and natural habitat. This is a grave reminder for us not to turn a blind eye to the dire state of the elephants. The ivory trade must stop and it must begin with us. 


Say NO to buying ivory products and give these gentle giants a chance to live. 


   

BAI SWEE by Samantha Lo ("SKL0")
   

"Bai Swee", in the Hokkien dialect, means "only for show or display purposes". Which leaves us to think, what is real anymore?


The once majestic Malayan tigers are now merely puppets of the human race. As their strength and dominance in this world wane, we can only see their former selves portrayed and kept alive by their human keepers. Here lies a grim reminder that we have to work harder to preserve what nature offers or soon we will only have soulless and empty shells of the Malayan tigers.

Many of these majestic felines have been hunted for their parts to be used in traditional medicine. Tiger parts, like any other animal parts, can be replaced by alternative formulas in traditional medicine. 


Say NO to using animal parts and help keep these beautiful creatures living in the years to come. 


Light-hearted moments to conclude the launch with artists, staff and participants
spray-painting the GO WILD! wall...


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