Explore Asia Trail with Personal Wilderness Guide September 18, 2010

Do you love the National Zoo’s Asia Trail but want to know more about the creatures who live there? Friends of the National Zoo is proud to offer a new tour of Asia Trail. On Saturday mornings this fall, an expert guide will lead a small group around Asia Trail's seven exhibits, teaching guests about the fascinating species that can be seen here—giant pandas, red pandas, Asian small-clawed otters, clouded leopards, fishing cats, Japanese giant salamanders, and sloth bears—as well as how the Zoo works to conserve them.

The tour fee is $5 for children 12 and younger and $10 for all other guests. This one and a half hour tour will include sloth bear eating demos, a Q & A with a clouded leopard keeper, and lasting memories. One hundred percent of the proceeds support the construction of a new clouded leopard facility at the Zoo's Front Royal, Virginia, campus, where more than 76 cubs have been born. For more information, visit http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/AsiaTrail/tour.cfm or call (202) 633-4456. We are taking reservations for next weekend now!

Official Website: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/AsiaTrail/tour.cfm