Here is a high and mighty pelican. All he really seemed to do was sit and look at you (secretly I think he was trying to will us into giving him fish.) 
No idea. But he looks cool doesn't he? I kept expecting his legsto just break in two because they were so thin.
So one of the many interesting parts of the zoo were their manitees. I've seen some in zoos before but normally just one or two, they had five plus a new addition to the family (seen above). The picture is a little hard to see because of the glare off the glass. but if you get really close to the screen you can see the smaller ugly creature (be honest they are) moving behind to grey masses that are the large ugly sea creatures.
Otters. Who doesn't like otters? There are many varieties of otters in the Singapore/Malayasian region and the zoo had every variety... and in the case of the small clawed otter they had about 4 different places for all of them.
This poor 'ol boy is a variety of pig (or warthog?) in which he grows four tusks, two of which grow right through the middle of his upper jaw! A tour guide we heard refered to this pig and how he uses "his sexy tusks to pick up the ladies." Man I'm glad I'm not that kind of pig.
No idea what this fish is called but we liked the way his mouth becomes all barrel-nosed. We also think it looks like one of those fish that has somehow survived from the time of Littlefoot.
Alright so this photo shows what is easily the most impressive part of the zoo. Unlike almost every other zoo I've been to there is little to no sperationg between the animals and the people. For example, the zoo had several "free range orang-utans" spots where they just do whatever they want above you. Or as you can see in this picture Megan is about 7 feet from the kangaroo, with the only barrier being a fence that doesn't reach her knee.
Here is another picture of the same thing. It was simply amazing to be so close and to not be hidden behind 4 inches of plexi.
Zebras. Note the jackle waiting to pounce, good thing its a zoo and therefor not possible.
Here are the white rhinos, which are immense and would be incredibly scarry creatures when charging. What was more interesting was the symobitic realationship they have with a small black bird that lives on their back. Rhinos cannot see worth a darn and so the bird starts squaking when anything threatening comes around. They have such a tight relationship that the rhino lets the bird build a mud nest on his back!
Their sign markers. 
One of the above mentioned "free range orang-utans."
Never quite to sure what to with this guy but another great example of "free range orang-u-tangs" despite him not being an orang-utan.
Tigers. But not just any tigers, these are white tigers! Apparently all white tigers in captivity are the descendents of one caught by an India raja (king). Also they all have the same basic coloring pattern with blue eyes and a pink nose.
This picture is a little tricky to make out but its a fruit bat picking through a durian. Now this is nor ordinary bat, it was HUGE. I didn't know that bats could get this big.
This is from one of the shows during the night safari. Here they are pulling out a massive snake big enough that it needed four people to lift it up.
A gong... Josh liked hitting it.
This post was written mostly by Josh, so don't blame any typos or mistakes on Megan. Josh is simply tired and has to get up quite early tomorrow and needs to finish.
2 comments:
Oh, my!
Wow! The kids would have loved it! When we were looking at the pictures Lucas asked if we could go tomorrow. I told him we had to get passport first...he said oh, then walked away:)
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