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- Shoebills are named for their large shoe-shaped bill, which gives them their iconic appearance.
Wildlife Reserves Singapore
You've seen the T-Rex in action on the big screen, now look at the B-Rex in the flesh.
A pair of prehistoric Shoebills (Balaeniceps rex) – a 11- A 17-year-old man and a 17-year-old woman are now calling Jurong Bird Park home. Arrived from Qatar, they are both part of the exhibition on the wetlands of attraction.
The beaks are named because of their wide, shoe-shaped bill, measuring more than 20 cm in length. They usually reach a height of 1.5m with their wing reaches reaching a maximum of 2m.
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The Jurong Bird Park is the only zoological institution in Southeast Asia where visitors can see the species.
Shoebills are native to tropical eastern Africa – where they are threatened, such as habitat loss and illegal trade. Wild species – and classified as vulnerable in the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species.
Currently, there are only 30 Shoebills under human surveillance in the world and about 5,000 to 8,000 individuals remain in the wild.
They are no strangers to Jurong Bird Park, having appeared in 1995. His last specimen died three years ago in 2015.
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Marbled Beaks have a life expectancy of 35 years in the wild and, although their diet is mainly composed of fish, they also consume amphibians, snakes and even crocodile babies. Jurong Bird Park hopes to raise the couple to better understand the biology of the species.
In addition to the Shoebills, visitors to the Wetlands show can also see other wetland birds such as the endangered Bald Ibis, the Roseate Spoonbill and the Egret, in critical danger of extinction.
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