Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park

This guide to Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park traces the Rajah Brooke's Birdwing, Malaysia's national butterfly, from its place on every identity card to the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who first described it in 1855. It follows why the country's rarest species were brought into a seven-thousand-square-metre greenhouse in the city, alongside a koi pond and waterfall. Look for the males, jet-black wings slashed with electric green, beside the subtler brown females.