Catching Up: The Zoo!

Time to catch up on a few posts! Back in February when we were still in Sri Lanka, Sina and I took the kids to Singapore for a long weekend. Besides all the other reasons to love Singapore (fantastic food, much cleaner than some South Asian island countries who shall remain nameless, fantastic food, great shopping, fantastic food, 7-Elevens about every half a block, more fantastic food, hot enough to justify buying a Coke slurpee every half a block...you get the picture...), they have a great, great zoo there.

For a little extra chicken feed they let you feed some of the animals there. Now I've fed a lot of animals in my lifetime, but mostly of the bovine and ovine variety. As much as I liked that, feeding these was much more fun.





I forget now how old these turtles were, but I believe it was older than all four of us put together!





But the best ones to feed were the manatees. Their mouths are one of the strangest things we had ever seen - kind of like a friendly, mouthy version of a porcupine.





The kangaroo exhibit claimed that early white explorers in Australia saw a kangaroo and asked a nearby Aborigine what it was. The guy replied "kangaroo", which in his language meant "I don't understand your question." :):):)

Singapore also has a great bird zoo!
(that also has fish ponds...)



They had a big enclosed space with lots of Lories, really noisy and colorful birds you could feed nectar to. Lots of fun...





...until you had six or seven of them fighting over you. I think Alfred Hitchcock may have had some experience with these maybe?



And they have a great night safari zoo - that's right, a night safari zoo that's only open after dark and has all sorts of nocturnal animals and low lighting so you can see all those animals that are sleeping when you usually go to the zoo. But too dark for photos. :)