Well, actually we went to the zoo yesterday.
Crouching tiger, hidden ... what?
After our, previous, aborted attempt, we finally made it back to Singapore Zoo to spend a whole day.
Free range parrots
It took an entire day to look round, and I’m sure that there were many things we missed.
The real crouching tiger!
In contrast to zoos in the UK the emphasis seems slightly more skewed towards entertainment rather than conservation. There are a number of shows throughout the day where the animals perform, if this was a UK circus there would be protests outside.
Elephants demonstrating their strength and coordination
There are a huge range of animals that you can view, from indigenous monkeys:
Mother and infant
Through Orangutans from nearby Borneo (definitely on the travel list):
Nobody likes a show off
To the completely absurd:
Even with a den which has air-con, it's not right!
The Polar Bear is called Inuka, and some what surprisingly he was born in Singapore – unsurprisingly he was the first Polar Bear born in the tropics. For some reason the zoo is proud of this!
A Komodo Dragon from Indonesia
Most of the animals do belong in a tropical climate, some like the Komodo Dragon you don’t want to mess with, others are just cute and harmless:
It's the two on the left that are cute
I’m running out of pithy comments to allow me to include more photos from our trip, so I’ll just direct you to the gallery, as usual, where there are ten pages of photos (and that’s only the ones I deemed good enough to upload). The zoo’s location is on the map, it’s in the north of the island which meant a S$20 taxi ride to get there.
The photographs are brilliant – all 75 of them – well done. A bit worried that there are ‘terminators’ in Singapore Zoo!
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