Across the years, the Mandai parks have housed multiple species which are no longer here today, either off-display or gone. Here I try to compile them into a list, at least the major ones I remember or from references like maps with a rough approximation of when they left. An * represents a species that is still housed in another Mandai facility. Po = phased out Singapore Zoo Golden snub-nosed monkey (1970s) Snow leopard (1970s-1980s) Dromedary camel (po 2000s) Nilgai (po 2000s) Blue duiker (d. 2000s) Chinese goral (po 2008) Common eland (d. 2011/2012) Antillean manatee* (moved to River Wonders) Guanaco* (moved to River Wonders) Maned wolf* (moved to River Wonders, then Night Safari recently) Jaguar* (moved to River Wonders) Arapaima* (moved to River Wonders) Lion-tailed macaque* (off-display in 2010s, moved to River Wonders in 2019) Agile gibbon (off-display) Lar gibbon (off-display) Critters Longhouse stuff (either phased out or moved to Night Safari or other parts of the zoo) Puma (d. 2018/early 2019) Polar bear (d. 25 April 2018) Caribbean flamingo* (po. 2018/2019) Banded mongoose (po. 2018/2019) Raccoon dog (po. 2019) Wolverine (po. 2019) Black wildebeest (d. 2020) Common warthog (d. 2020-2021) Black-backed jackal (po. 2020) Regal horned lizard Cuvier's dwarf caiman* (moved to River Wonders in 2019-2020) Common patas monkey (off-display since 2020) Malayan tapir* (moved to Night Safari in 2021) Mandrill (d. 2021) Grant’s zebra (po. early 2021) Blue-winged goose (po. 2021) Gaboon viper (off-display 2022) Giant snakehead* (moved to River Wonders in 2022) Night Safari Red lechwe (po early 2010s) Asian golden cat (po early 2010s) Asian water buffalo (po early 2010s) Banteng (po early 2010s) Bat-eared fox (po early 2010s) Golden jackal Mouflon (po 2016-2017?) Tawny frogmouth* South African giraffe (po 2018-2019) Scimitar oryx (po 2019) Grant’s zebra (po 2019) Ankole cattle Nyala* (moved to Singapore Zoo) Great white pelican (moved to other parks?) Gaur (po 2020s) Indian wolf (po 2020s) Sugar glider (po 2020s) Giant pangasius* (moved to River Wonders in 2021) Spectral tarsier (off-display) Serval* (moved to Singapore Zoo in 2020) Red and white giant flying squirrel (po 2021) Spotted giant flying squirrel (po 2021) Yellow-spotted chevrotain (d. 2022) Sri Lankan leopard* (d. 2022) River Wonders Murray cod (po) Barramundi (po) Vietnamese mossy frog Giant water bug Golden pheasant (po. 2014-2015) Greater rhea (po) North American beaver (po. 2015-2016) Andean cock-of the rock Green iguana* Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth* Jaguarundi (po) Lesser adjutant* Elephant trunk snake American paddlefish (po. 2018-2019) Mbu pufferfish Crab-eating macaque (po. 2019) Scarlet ibis* Maned wolf* (moved to Night Safari) Bearded emperor tamarin* (moved to Singapore Zoo) Alligator gar (po. 2021) Alligator snapping turtle* (moved to Singapore Zoo in 2021) Common snapping turtle (off-display) Dwarf crocodile (po. late 2021) Chinese alligator* (moved to Singapore Zoo in early 2022) Goonch catfish (off-show in 2022) Jurong Bird Park Andean cock-of-the-rock (d. 2016?) Helmeted hornbill Snowy owl Australian boobook* (moved to Night Safari) Greater rhea (moved to River Wonders then po) Brown pelican (moved to France) Peruvian pelican (moved to France) Common ostrich* (moved to Singapore Zoo in 2019) Emu* (moved to Singapore Zoo in 2019?) Blue-winged goose King vulture Andean condor Macaroni penguin Spix’s macaw (moved back to Al Wabra) Lear’s macaw (^) Black swan (po 2021) Mute swan (po 2021) Egyptian vulture (d. August 2022) Would be great if any of you had more info as there definitely are a lot more species that they had phased out
Puma, Raccoon Dog, Wolverine, Gaur, Sugar Glider, Spotted Giant Flying Squirrel, Beaver, Crab-eating Macaque, Dwarf Crocodile, Snowy Owl, King Vulture, Andean Condor are still in Mandai's collection.
I also included species that could be off-show as former species, I am aware that they have a huge off show collection but didn't realise they still have so many of them. I hope the flying squirrels go back on display. Aside from species still kept in Night Safari or used in theirs and the Bird Park's shows, what else was kept in the World of Darkness area?
You’re missing out the North Island Brown Kiwi (they even managed to hatch one if I’m not wrong). And again from New Zealand, there used to be Kea. Vietnamese Mossy Frog are present in the frog breeding room at Reptopia. Likewise, Giant Water Bug are still found in the butterfly breeding room of Fragile Forest. You can add Gorillas to that list for the zoo, along with Mugger Crocodile, Common Raccoon Night Safari had Sunda Clouded Leopard, Yellow-throated Marten, Owston’s Palm Civet, Asian Golden Cat, and Eastern Timber Wolf. There are a lot of really cool fish, some that would benefit from a facility like Mandai to aid in breeding efforts, that have gone over the years, which stinks to me. Canara Pearlspots, Jelly Catfish, Pacman Catfish, Orange-spotted Snakehead, Mbu Puffer, Suttonorum Blue-eyed Pleco, Largemouth Bass, Mandarin Perch, Aba Knifefish, Congochromis sabinae, Keyhole Cichlid, Saratoga, Hasselt’s Bamboo Shark, and probably a lot more. It seems that the fish collection plan is comprising of mostly common aquarium species.
Forgot about the gorillas somehow, when were they in the zoo? Also need to add the hooded vulture, the last one, a female was sent to Europe I think
- the great white pelicans that were formerly housed at night safari, currently were housed in singapore zoo's gibbon island - the elephant trunk snakes that were formerly housed at river wonders, currently housed at singapore zoo's reptopia - the north american beaver are currently used as once upon in a river show in river wonders
https://www.zootierliste.de/en/map.php?showzoo=10005014 https://www.zootierliste.de/en/map.php?showzoo=10005015 https://www.zootierliste.de/en/map.php?showzoo=10005016 These may be of help?
