Edinburgh Zoo has added a large high ropes adventure as one if its main new attractions for the 2010 summer season.

Supplied by UK-based Innovative Leisure, the new Sky Trail has been designed to blend into the surrounding landscape with its jungle theming and outdoor wilderness-style colours.

The course has been installed adjacent to the award-winning £6m Budongo Trail chimpanzee enclosure, providing participants with a 'chimps eye view' of the enclosure and perhaps a chance to imitate some of the climbing exploits of the adjacent inmates.

The trail consists of an 80m long track, 6m above the ground, and takes up to 25 participants at any one time, providing an hourly throughput of approximately 100.

Edinburgh Zoo's commercial director Gary Wilson said: "It is great to have this type of play equipment beside a chimpanzee enclosure where the kids can interact with the chimps in the same way the chimps play in the trees.

"The chimps also seem to be very interested in all that is going on and they too look to be stimulated by the experience as well as all who have a go on it."