Rivers Edge

Female green anacondas are almost five times heavier than males.

Their huge size can make it difficult for them to move on land, however, in water they can move with stealth and ease.

When collecting insects, an anteater's tongue can flick up to 150 times per minute, eating up to 30,000 ants per day!

Anteaters are almost blind, but have a keen sense of smell.

Binturongs mark their territory by leaving a musky substance that smells like popcorn! They are also known as the bear cat and is a member of the civet family.

Wreathed hornbills are excellent seed dispersers. They fly great distances and can distribute the seeds via their droppings over large areas.

Asian short-clawed otters are the smallest of all the species of otters. They use their hands to probe into mud or under rocks to find a tasty meal.

Emerald tree monitors are the only monitor lizard with a prehensile tail, which allows them to be highly arboreal.

The lion-tailed macaque's name comes from its long tail, which has a tassel at the end like that of a lion. They are one of the smallest and most endangered of the macaque species of monkey.

Pileated gibbons live in socially-monogamous pairs so the male and a female live together and rear their offspring together.

Our breeding pair of red pandas are housed in an open air enclosure with a number of different platforms and plenty of space for them to climb and explore. The enclosure has plenty of bamboo for our individuals to enjoy, as this makes up 95% of their diet in the wild. Bamboo is highly nutritious and red pandas may spend up to 13 hours foraging for this food source as well as consuming 200,000 bamboo leaves a day.