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alright. this is not on the date of the zoo run, which was on 01092006. kinda long ago eh? =)
but well, yesterday was relatively wasted tho... =X
ok. back to the zoo trip.
supposed to meet at 0650, but some were late (like me) =X...
nevermind. lek went through the briefing again, this time more specifically on where we were gonna run. he mentioned the length. 20.5km. i didn't expect myself to go so far. but i broke it =)
iz oso mentioned about what we shld b doing in the zoo. he mentioned that time is not enough. i thought that 6hrs in dere was enough. more than enough actually =S
set off at 0730, expecting to reach dere by 1130, we passed thru whitley road, thompson road, macritchie reservoir (jelutong trail, hsbc trail), sicc, peirce reservoir (the bridge segregrating upper/lower peirce), some unknown trail, old
upper thomson road, mandai road, ecg, seletar viewing tower, alongside seletar reservoir (beside the ecg, there's a small pathway), mandai road (again, but now 1/2 of it), mandai lake road (and into the zoo!). that's the end of the run.
an approximate equivalant to a 20.5km run, it took about 249mins, or rather 4hrs 9mins. however, we were still 9mins later than expected... nevertheless, good job, great effort!!! =)
well, i took a few photos at the sicc route, some after the sicc, then it was all the way to the zoo signboard. =)
(i'll post it up somewhere, somehow, dun worry, but remember to check back =D)
took the lunch in kfc at the entrance of the zoo. ben & jerry was open too =X
ate fish ole meal. rushed like 5 sachets of chill? but it was nice tho XD
went into the zoo after collecting the tickets from don/lynette. tsk. tsk. tsk.
=X is dere sth wrong here? X=
ok. i walked wif dom, i learnt from dom and vice versa.
well, first was the treetops trail. false ghavial, mousedeer, macaw, golden pheasant, white-faced saki monkey, siamang.
although i onli saw the false ghavial, mousedeer, macaw, and a glimpse of the white-faced saki monkey, didn't get to c the siamang. too concealed... too secluded a resting spot =D
then next (wait... let me get the map and backtrack =X)...
ok, done. we went through the otters. dere was a sign about the binturong, but i saw no binturongs around. yucks. bluff me =S
anyway, there's a small area where u can c the otters swimming. they're playful though, carnivorous, and the only water dwelling mammals that uses tools apart from humans (they open shellfish by trashing it against a rock - wow =D).
went through the tiger trek, saw some bengal tigers (in their enclosures, but i heard that those in thailand has them in close interaction with the tourists =X), if i aint wrong...
anyway, there's only 5 kinds of tigers (from 8 since 1950 - that's an expected one, cos it's been a long time since i've been to the zoo) left on earth today, because of poaching, destruction of habitat and such human activities. humans sure are
dangerous animals =X (am i not one? ... ...)
btw, tiger's territorial range has reduced by up to 100 times (i c and think one, cos dere's also a map dere for you to c if u go - if you had noticed la! ...)
the 8 kinds are caspian tiger, javan tiger, balinese tiger, south china tiger, siberian tiger, bengal tiger, indochinese tiger, sumatran tiger. the first 3 on the list is extinct.
STOP THE POACHING!!! IT'S DESTROYING THE TIGERS!!!
we then went through the gibbon area... although i didn't c any of em swinging around, but i decided to check back later. 6hrs isn't very long =X
going further down, we came across the pygmy hippopotamus enclosure. most of them were in the water, reluctant and 'lazy' to come out, but well, they aint that closely related to horses even though they're called 'her ma' (that's more towards the english side.. the chinese one is 'he ma').
anyway, they're being hunted for their jaw denitions and meat, for chinese medicine (i suppose?), and as bushmeat. their habitat is being destroyed! HELP THEM!!!
oh, and they're herbivours =) (i cant believe i left this out tho... hehehe...)
a little further up the road, we hit the australian outback.
taipan, kangaroo, emu, carpet python, frilled lizard, boomerangs (ok, boomerangs are not animals. i repeat, boomerangs are NOT animals =)), grass tree (this isn't an animal too, but they sure look funny =X).
inland taipans are the most venemous (0.11g of their poison can kill up to 100 humans). they're found in australia,
mainly in mid-left queenstown, and on the bottom left border of northern australia (if you know where that was, cos i just checked it out on the atlas =D).
oh, there's 2 inland taipans in the zoo, relatively long and slim, but not as long as the green tree whip(do you know what that is? if not, nvm, cos it may be mentioned later in this same post)
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i din realise it was already this long... oh well, let's continue =D
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saw the hamadryas baboon. red butts, and they're picking the lices. expected.. what do they do with so much time anyway? eating and picking lice... how fun =X ...
walking across the garden pavilion close to the primate kingdom, i saw a (maybe two)golden lion tamarin(s), but it was reluctant to get outta it's "enclosure/home" what ever it was... a grey box with metal grilles...
since it didn't want to take a photo with me, i decided it was time i moved on, checking back later to c if it was willing to come out.
next up is the elephant ride! (ok i didn't take it, but it sure seems dangerous to ride atop an asian elephant and it may have hurt down dere =X)
ok... nvm, let's not go deeper into that. we'll head to the manatee area then =)
there were 2 manatees, which were accompanied by one pelican, ONE carribean sealion, as well as (over ten) penguins (i cant remember their species tho... but they're quite small in size...). dom's favourite was the one with the yellow feathers atop the skullcap. i cant rmb what that penguin was tho... (dun blame me dom. i have amnesia, rmb? XD)
oh, the manatee enclosure was opened by PM goh CT, from a gift by a governer of quintana roo, mexico.
i sense that the manatees, sealion and pelicans were quite lonely tho... not many to play with, and fiddling around with homo sapiens (just humans if you didn't know) aint that fun anymore...
i wonder how long they've been in the zoo...
so lonely, doing the same things everyday...
walking down further, the orang utans were in sight.
'orang utan' in it's native language, 'orang' = 'forest', 'utan' = 'man'.
so it means man of the forest, literally...
but then again, they really do look like humans, with 98% of genetic makeup similar to tat of humans.
after that was the reptile gardens...
4 types of reptiles, onli the first 3 types were shown...
chelonia, crocodilia, squamata, tuatara
didn't c any tuataras (guntheri and punctatus), but the snapping turtles were dere, false ghavial, alligator, aldebra giant tortoise, gila monster, komodo dragon (lizard actually, but they're quite large, so they're called "dragons"), snakes, iguana... i wonder why the zoo doesn't have any chameleons...
only 3 species of horned lizards can 'squirt blood', due to build-up of high pressure in blood vessels just beneath the eyelids.
many species of lizards can also produce offspring w/o mating (wow! i was amazed tho =D). it's called "parthenogenesis". 2 females lizards come together, and one acts as the courting male. oh, it's common in other insects and invertebraes (i wonder if that's true...)
btw, eunice was dere and she said "omg! lesbians!" ... so loud =)
the gila monster is one of the 2 lizards tt are in fact poisonous (cos they produce toxins, not because of bacteria like in komodo "dragon"). fortunately, it's poison is only used in defence =D
there's also a part on how the lizards react when they c an enemy. you might want to see that too =)
next up was the crocs (the above para was too long. i like it short =D)
3 types of crocs, the crocodiles, alligators, ghavial.
ghavial is the most aquatic of the 3, with the longest snout and a bulbous snout. btw, there's only one species of the ghavial and it lives in Burma =)
snakes. the other genera of the squamata apart from the lizards.
too many types, but let's just list some alright?
western/eastern diamondback rattlesnake, reticulated python, green tree whip (dere... i said i would mention it, right? =D), king cobra, anaconda that's all i can remember for now.
coming out of the reptile garden, i saw the leopard resting on a rock, in an enclosed enclosure of course... if not it would've been so dangerous...
btw, take a 180 degree turn on the spot and you'll find that a 50ya tree costs an approximate of 200k bucks. most of it is due to environmental reasons like producing oxygen, removing carbon dioxide, recycle water and such.
WE HAVE TO SAVE THESE SPECIES!!! (it's the trees and the animals...)
walking along the road with a light mind brought me across a horse carriage. took the chance to take one of the horse, w/o the carriage. (aww... the warden must be so sad... =X)
saw the giraffes (giraffes are under giraffidae, sharing the class with okapis)and went over the the small gazeboo between
the nyala and giraffe enclosures. hmmm... i wonder y there aint any okapis in the zoo...
anyway, i overheard a "tourist" telling his child that an ostrich's egg (in comparison to a chicken's egg) was from the
giraffe XD (LOL!!!)... i couldn't believe my ears....
not wanting to let the small child be strayed by his father's wrong teachings of a "giraffe's egg", i told them that it's an ostrich's egg =D just beside the ostrich egg specimen was the giraffe's skull. learnt that both male and female giraffes can have horns (yes, they are REAL horns), but the male can have up to 5 (wow... that's quite alot to have on the head... triceratops only had 3... oh well...). another thing is that the giraffe's name is actually from the arabic word "xirapha", and romans and greeks call it "camel-leopard"
anyway, the nyala was posing for me near the gazeboo by the fence, so i took the chance to photograph it. =D
oh... the ostrich was dere too! (total of 2 ostriches in the zoo)
just opposite the nyala enclosure was the lion's den and beside it was the zebras =)
a signboard says that the male lion bites the females' to "release an egg" after it get's humped =X
oh... so that's how love bites came about =D
the zebras were feeding in comparison to the lions' resting spots under the minute shades of the little number of trees around...
saw 2 zebras that were really close...
mother and child. wanted to take a pic of the child feeding on the mother's mammary glands, but i guessed it saw me taking out the cam and turned away to feed on the "hay".
aww.... so cute =)
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ok... sth tthat i just realised...
the map of the zoo is wrong!!!
the giraffe shld be op top of the nyala, but it's the other way around, btw, i didn't c any hunting dogs (were there any at all???)
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i'll stop here first, will finish up later... saving this as a draft =)
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back =D
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the cheetah was just further down. jus like all big cats, they like to lay down in a light slumber in the shades...
hiding just behind some trees, but sporting spotted skins, they were relatively easy to spot in the lush green "landscape" =)
btw, the cheetah enclosure hasn't changed since at least 6yrs back. (wow... how old =X)
walking an approximate of 30 steps, the gnu and the greater kudus could be seen...
(the horse carriage wasn't dere on the map as well.. it was relatively moblie, even if there was just the warden on the carriage...)
the gnu and greater kudus were resting around, both taking up different spots, but they like to be in groups.
a male nyala (if you even realised that it was different from the rest of those in the same enclosure) could be seen at the
edge of the enclosure, but it just makes one wonder why it's dere with the gnus and greader kudus but not with the female nyala...
they seem so lonely... ... ...
taking a left turn, the rhinos could be seen (were the eland there as well? i'm not sure...)
they were shunning the sun... hiding in the shades, just like the others in the zoo. i guess their natural habitats had pools of water (rather, oasises), but the zoo didn't have. too many things the zoo had left out...
THEY NEED THE WATER... THE MUDDY WATER TO COOL THEMSELVES DOWN!!!
but the zoo didn't have any (unless you're thinking of the night safari)... so sad..... =(
next up, the polar bears...
one was lying down between the "stone" henges, and the other was "mourning"...
i hope the former wasn't dead.
couldn't see the chest moving...
the ribs wasn't that visible.
i hope it survives...
nth much to see, i could feel it's unhappyness. i wonder if the others feel it too. i went away feeling remourseful for it...
the guanaco was next...
it's site was similar to that of the greater kudus and the gnus, but it was rather lonely tho... there wer only like 2/3 guanacos in that whole place. one of em was resting in the far end, the other was happily gourging on the food that was hung from a yardstick. =)
took the chance to put it down on my cam =)
the sun bear was even more lonely...
there was only one sun bear in the whole of it's "designed habitat". i guess it's gonna die from boreness, no one to play with, totally lost in it's thought...
just opposite of the lonely sun bear was the domedary/arabian camel. (the bactrian camel has 2 humps)
yes, just one. how much more lonely can they get?
they're alone inn this world, drawing intrest only in the plain food that hey eat. just plain leaf stacks.
this is how a arabian camel should be, not this...
the latter is from the zoo.. comapare the hind legs, as well as the butt (although it's not really that obvious in the former that it's more well fed - sorry SZG, but i just had to say this, even though you guys are one of the better ones...)
just down the road onto a wooden-planked walkway, i reached the healthcare & research centre. it was quite interesting to know that i saw a cast pangolin there, although there isn't any live ones from the zoo. it looked cute, but i didn't take a pic, cos it wasn't real... you can find some here
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that's an eye-opener for all those that have yet to see one... (btw, i haven seen a real pangolin too =X)
sadly, pangolins are in demand in vietnam, for pickled pangolin (i don't know if they eat this, but it's really cruel, and disturbing for one to think that pangolins are really going extinct if this goes on...)
pangolins are already diminishing in numbers and they still do this?
wth... they totally dun care about the pangolins' life n death!
walking back to the children's world animal land via the giraffe enclosure's route, we went through the orchid garden. too many orchids, over 100k species of hybrids, and some korean actor is gonna get an orchid named after him. heck. it's such a commercalised trade now. same goes for the monkeys...
btw, orchid means testicles. i didn't want to post that, but i had too. i'll forget it if i dun post it =O
went through the fragile forest.
saw some animals that i didn't even know. some of them that were identified were the butterflies (too many species, but no brooke wing butterflies - they're found in m'sia) and the mousedeer (most probably to be lesser mousedeer as it's found in southeast asia...)
reached the children's world zoo to find horse, ponies, cows, sheep, goats, pigs, naked moles, rabbits, hamsters, rabbits
a rooster was yelling dere too =)
anyway, i saw nic n tiff dere, n dom barged right into an army of ants in a line. he jumps frantically, trying to get the ants off XD
dom n tiff went over to c the children show... i felt i was relatively too old for it, so i took some time to look at the naked moles, hamsters and rabbits. nic was busy writing down notes. i didn't bring mine along =/
went over to find dom to set off for the elephants..., which were on the other "peninsula" =X
was walking along the gazeboo on the road to the garden with a view (of france styled design) when dom spotted a gecko on the base of the small coniferous tree. took it down with the cam too =)
the well dere was also sealed for some unknown reason... i guess it's dangerous for small kids bah...
walking on from the garden with a view, an english tourist asked about the real run thing tt dom was wearing.
dom kena stunned for words.
i explain, dom keep quiet =X
walked into the manatee area again, just to c the lovely but lonely manatees. they were lazing around in the water, maybe just exploring the new faces that they c almost everyday...
going just a little further, the shaw foundation amphitheatre was sitting right in front of us...
dom requinlished the times he had when he was young. i nearly cried. but a male shld not shed tears. he sheds bloods lest it's deep in the heart...
the macaws, cluckoos, flamingos, seals, pelicans. they came back, but i only know of parrots when i was still a small kid.
how time flies... ... ...
elephants enclosure reached
i found only asiatic elephants dere, no african elephants, cos hard to tame, very big. tt's what iz said abt those african elephants tho... i liked the african ones more tho... large but nice large ears that make you feel the wind when you're just beneath those, as well as the nice feeling that you get when you're close to them (when they're tamed...)
took a photo of seletar's viewing tower from this place. it wasn't perfect. the view was rather vague, with all the lush green "forest-like" ambience that was present.
trespassed into the garden pavilion again just to check on the golden lion tamarin.
it still wouldn't budge. no golden lion tamarins on cam. i only caught a glimpse of it previously during the day...
walking back via the gibbon's route, i finally saw 2 gibbons, resting at the very top of the branches (rather just a v high yardstick that was popping outta nowhere...)
lashed my cam out and took a 12x zoom just to get it down on pic. it's a little blur. 12x. how hard to get it perfect =X
i think i saw a golden pheasant, but it wasn't golden. it was blue. i thik it was pretty rare, and some tourists near it was scaring it away. rushed over the other end of the road just to get a pic of it. yes, it's blue. i'm so lucky =)
made a u-turn at the otters to find the tapirs.
malayan tapirs, or thus it says so. relatively funny body colour, white/black. description says that it helps them to blend into the surroundings at night and during the day. the video tt was shown in a small hut near the tapir's enclosure didn't help much. still quite obvious to the naked eye, and cats have like 6 times better visibility than us at night.
oh well, gd luck for those tapirs in the wild...
last one on the list was babirusa.
it's the most funny pig (yes, it's a part of suidae, that's pigs), with 2 "horns" growing out of it's snout. description says that it will kill itself if the "horns" grow too long and pierce into it's brain.
how ironic. getting killed by it's own "horns" during adulthood.
but it's smart enough to start scraping it's 2 "horns" growing from the snout against the rocks/hard surfaces that it can find to prolong it's life.
lucky chap i must say =)
by then, it was alrdy almost 1800...
dom n me started walking back, silently with many thoughts in our little minds...
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tt's the end of the zoo, but dun forget about the night safari. told you... too little time. (by iz)
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i wonder if my post will get cut short. i'm gonna save this as a txt file on my com XD
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well, we decided to get iz a ticket into the night safari. happy teachers day iz =) hope tt makes u happier, if you have the chance to c this XD (this post is too long XD the bar on the edit page is approx 5mm long, and still counting XD)
first time into the night safari. everything seems so wierd, but the ambience set in fast, and quickly. it wasn't long before dom n i were at it again, this time tailed by don n lynette, where they overtook us after the clouded leopard XD
actually, dom n i went into the forest giants trail, n dom was afraid about the animals in the dark. he wanted to walk faster, while i tried my best to admire the trees, but the small metal description boards stuck into the ground din't help. i hope they placed it somewhere nearer to the desired tree of description. it'll help alot, really =)
the lighting didn't help much, but attempts to keep up with the little light that was provided made my irises big XD
went thru many dens and areas, but didn't manage to take much photos. the auto lighting feater was a killer. all the pics had to be taken with flash to see the animals, but i couldn't. just black images captured... diu... =(
most of the animals looked rather tired, except for the spotted hyena on the way from the forests giants trail to the leopard trail. there was much more to learn. my led torch wasn't working. it didn't help much. i had to navigate my way though natural directional senses and minute lighting...
after a 3~5min walk from the forest giants trail, we reached the east lodge, were we saw the lesser bushbaby.
it was cute n seemingly docile, aided by the silent surroundings, for which there were only dom n me in the area, at least for now...
heading behind the tram station lane, the giraffe/zebra/scimitar-horned oryx could be seen. the giraffe was closest to us, and it was happily munching on the leaves on the high yardstick/pole (it was brown in colour tho...)
the giraffe seemed to be the most active here, slping only 4hrs a day, 1min each time, it seemed relatively awake for its tongue lashed in and out to grapple the leaves. =D
heading to the other side, which was marked the leopard trail, we went over to the otters' side and the clouded leopard.
the otters were even more active. foraging near the water area, some were playing in the water, and others were grooming.
the clouded leopard was well hidden from view. i guess it's the lighting tho. =(
coming out of the viewing area of the clouded loepard area, we went into the giant flying squirrel enclosure. there were
many pple. ALOT of pple to be exact... we had to squeeze through just to get a glimpse. i'm glad i didn't wear that jersey tee arnd... i seemed quite barbaric there, squeezing through all the pple...
we ended up back at the east lodge again. this time, we say the bao family, w/o don n lynette (tsk. tsk. tsk. =X oops I did it again XD). tiff was looking for nic tho =O
this time walking through the giant flying squirrel enclosure just to get to the other side, we went over to the hog badger side, to c nic n vic dere. well, just admiring the hog badger, which was in mustelidae instead of rodentia (rodentia was from dom. well, he has much more to learn XD)
the hog badger wasn't really "viewable", since i could only make out the outline of it from the pathway...
by the time we reached the tarsier, dere was a family dere which was really noisy. i hate that when i'm viewing animals! it realli scares them off. seems like my tarsier is gone... ... ...
making our way to the ranger station, we found out how the herbivours sight was, how they looked. it's relatively interesting.... one shld try that some time too =)
i also found out how thick was the rhino's hide. almost 2 fingers thick. that's realli thick. look at your fingers and c. it's wrapped all around the rhino's body... tt might be one of the reasons y rhinos dont have sweat glands on the surface of their bodies XD
going into the mangroove walk (just behind the ranger station), we saw 2 bats (chiropteras). just 2, relatively close. could hear the light squeeking sound that it was making. barely audible, and the crowd there didn't help. the warden was also present to stop anyone from touching it. "it may bite" was what he said =X
moving on to the malayan civet…
the dark surroundings was again the culprit of us giving it a miss. 5mins and no civets in sight. let's move on...
porcipines are relatively easy to spot, as the area was more well-lit than the other areas. long thin spikes (not as thin as the sewing needle though, but about as then as the pen in your hand XD)
it doesn't shoot out spikes.. it rams its spinks into the attacker, for which the spikes are detached easily, causing pain and discomfort for the attacker XD...
moving further down the trail, the slow loris was again scared away by the family (formerly at the tarsier enclosure).
so devilish. so selfish.
didn't c any owls down the road, the leopard was well hidden from view, but waiting just a while more made the spotting easier. adjustments of the eye to the dark lighting helped, and we were able to spot the leopard at the side, resting, for which it then stood up and walked towards the glass panel for us to c it much closer
how sweet of the leopard =D
the golden cat, last felidae of the leopard trail for dom n me, was not seen after a long wait, dragged by me (hehehe =S)
well, i tried my best, but it still was too well concealed in the environment...
walking along the trail towards the fishing cats trail, we spotted the striped hyena really fast since it was just resting atop a rock face at the background, with just sufficient lighting to observe the reflection of light in it's retina XD
oh, btw, it was yellowish white =)
now much closer to the fishing cat trail, we saw 2 indian wolves resting at the rock face, just as what the spotted hyenas before did. relatively tired i guess...
the greater asian rhinoceros (or so it was called), wasn't even in sight after we literally scanned the area 3 times with our eyes. the lighting wasn't as good as expected, since the more impt areas were kept unlit.
no greater asian rhino for the night... (i guessed)
dom suggested to tracking back later, and i agreed =)
next up were the marsh birds. i took a rest dere, since the run and walk was already starting to eat into the body, and recognised some species of birds, together with dom. he was checking up at the board, then looking at the birds up close, where i was resting on the bench provided, turning my head to look up n down XD
the indian gharial was close to the marsh birds and dom asked what would've happened if the marsh birds were with the gharial in the same enclosure... i thought for a while and said "oh well, then it's gl for the birds" XD
well, back-tracking to the greater asian rhinoceros enclosure, we didn't spot anything still, but we fed the mosquitoes. yucks. they're itchy! =D
well, next is the barking deer and the otters(again). it was all silent, i guess the barking deer only barks when it senses danger or is provoked...
just opposite was the leopard cat. we walked in to find 2 tourists observing the leopard cat. there was one on the branch just infront of them, but i guess they didn't realise tat until the leopard cat started to stretch. guess they didn't eat enough carrots (but dun ever egest polar bear's liver. it'll kill you!)...
up next was the binturong...
waited for 5mins too, but still nothing…
went over to see the fishing cat just opposite of the binturong enclosure...
saw it walking along the edges of the water, but just dipping it's paws into the water, no swinging of paws, no diving.
this time longer, since it was already approaching 2200 to meet up at the tram station 1 for the tram ride, and we were relatively close to tram station 1 dere...
sadly, there was still no show from the fishing cat, its skillfulness to catch a fish wasn't shown...
coming down upon the mousedeer just a few steps away...
the mousedeer was well concealed from bypassers' view and dom din c it initially. it was well hidden in it's place, just by the side of the bridge, and i had to stretch my head over a lil to look at it. nice and docile, or so it seems =)
i saw the blue retina. =D
on the opposite was the himalayan tahr. it wasn't much obvious and only it's butt was shown (from side view). i checked the route of the tram and saw that the tahr was one of the animals of the night to be seen, so we then advanced to the tram ride...
by 2155, everyone was all set for the tram ride!
wheeeeee~!
we got our tickets out for the tram ride, and me n dom was in a row, for which nic n vic then came in. nic changed lanes.
i stayed =X (ok, how's tt? =S)
by 2200, everyone was alrdy in the tram, at least for the pple tt ran...
last row was occupied by lala, deb, liz, foxy
last 2nd was me, dom, iz
last 3rd was lek, carmen, xxx (forget le.. sry manz =X)
iz took one photo from the front "cabin", for which all of us were in (except for iz.. sad =()
the tram ride started at approx 2205, and 1st animal of the nite in the tram, himalayan tahr!
bharal, markhor, mouflon, flamingo, striped hyena, indian wolf, greater asian rhino, barking deer, axis deer (allies? XD), water buffalo, golden jackal, samba deer, greater asian rhino (again), barasingha, lion, sloth bear, giraffe, zebra, scimitar-horned oryx, bat-eared fox, serval, red lechwe, cape buffalo, hippo, bongo, babirusa, bearded pig, malayan tiger, malayan tapir, red dhole, elephant, banteng, capybara, brazalian tapir, giant anteater, gaur, thamin.
himalayan tahr. high up on the rock face, look strong and resilient. lonely though. only a few, and they seem to be just looking at us on the tram...
flamingo. models of the animal world. long legs and nicely coloured plumage.
striped hyena. foraging around the roots of trees for some food. scavengers.
indian wolf. resting atop rock face, saw only 2...
greater asian rhino. finally saw it, it's relatively large, seemingly larger than the ones at the zoo. (it's nite safari here, rmb?)
barking deer. they really do bark! but they aint backing tonight...
axis deer. someone wrote allies for this tho XD
samba deer. dom mentioned sambal chill XD
greater asian rhino (again). it's "hiding" in the pond, with it's back faced to the pple on the tram
sloth bear. i forgot this, but din realli get to c it.
serval. known to jump up to 4 meters high. amazing springing power =)
bearded pig. beard around the snout and on it's tail. amazing sense of smell to dig up insects/food in the ground
malayan tapir. was alone, but not anymore after the tram driver saw one more just a few steps ahead from the first one. relatively easy to spot with keen eyesight =D
giant anteater. relatively shy, hiding behind some termite nests. cute with a squirrel-like tail, but with a long snout. eats termites with sticky tongue.
tt's all i can rmb... i hope i can go to the zoo again, then the night safari again another day...
so many things to learn, but the admission fee aint cheap. 15 w/o tram, 23 with tram. same for night safari, totalling 46 for day zoo and night safari, both with trams.
iz mentioned tt day zoo take tram c less things, nite safari take tram c more things. i agree =D
day zoo must slowly walk n find, not all the time is dere for you, but animals more obvious in the day time.
nite safari must walk n open the eyes even larger, cos the nite lighting isn't so good, so get your torches rdy, but do NOT shine at the animals.. only at your notebooks and at the description boards...
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i'm glad i saved a copy on my com, cos blogger was stuck for a while, maybe cos this post is so freakingly long. XD
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after coming out of the zoo, iz n lek talk for a while, then it was time to go.
dere was jus nic n me at the busstop at first, then dom, eunice, xavier, chiat, foxy, edwin came along.
nic. careful abt tt falling over... i dun wan u knocking the back of your head even if it's an intentional "harmless" fall, but
do rmb accidents do happen...
i had to rush home fast tt day... dad's bd =)
the time will come when you wish you had more time...
till then...
dreaming of you` @
16:03
Sunday, September 03, 2006
