Animal Antics!

in the ele-fun zone :P

the singapore zoo is located approximatly 45 minutes drive out of the main part of the city and is a major tourist attraction. it has available on offer two options for viewing animals, one being just a general admission to the regular day zoo and the other a night safari where visitors come at night to view the activities of partially nocturnal animals as they go about their business. being our last day in singapore we didnt have the option of going on the night safari, something that i wasnt too unhappy about as id done it before on my previous visit. however we figured that the regular zoo would be just as interesting to see and so using information given to us by a helpful employee of our hostel we caught a bus out to the zoo area. upon entering the zoo the first very obvious thing is that some animals are not actually confined to cages and have infact been set at liberty in the zoo grounds. tigers, lions and other large and small dangerous animals dotted the walkways.. well not really (:P bad joke.. my deepest apologies), animals of that calibure had there own enclosures BUT there were alot of free roaming moneys swinging in the branches above out heads. potentially these animals could have come down to lower levels and interacted with humans but im sure the zoo wouldn't want or risk such contact and probably chose to only let specific species of monkey out who seem to just observe and not interact with humans. during our time at the zoo we saw a large variety of animals, great and small, all in very well maintained enclosures and looking quite happy in their fabricated environments. all except the white tiger who when we first past his encloser was pacing up and down his enclosure in a kind of boredom induced trance.

riding a turtle, like a boss :)

on our second pass though he seemed to be having a great snooze next to his partner in the shade of a tree. other highlights included the rare species of crocodillian (the name escapes me, as does the spelling of that word :P), the so very human like orangutans, the leopards who we saw being fed and many more which i care not to name. we stayed at the zoo for 3 hours until the bus came to take us back to our china town hostel where we packed our bags and prepared to leave for the airport at 11pm for our flight at 2am. it was going to be a long night and infact ive only really been off the plane for a few hours (hence the crappy writing, im like half dead from the flight :p.. :/). anyway ill upedate everyone on the happenings of today tonight once ove had some prepper rest and my brain has a chance to begin functioning properly at its usual levels :P... (pictures are coming!)