Ebirah Goes to Hawai'i

Ebirah766 said:
Ok, well I did say I'd upload today, so I'll do that.

After seeing the tiger, we get some food and drink and head to the children's zoo (Of which my father is less than enthusiastic). Anyway, we arrive and it's really cool, probably my favorite exhibit in the whole zoo. It features a huge amount of wildlife, including farm animals but also some others such as coconut crabs. Yep, this was the first zoo I've been to that had coconut crabs. The area also had an animal care building, so the animals could be taken care of.

Children's zoo was an amazing exhibit, and I definitely recommend it for anyone going to the zoo. The next area is an African complex, which is the best one I've ever been to (seriously). The exhibit was amazing, and it featured a huge amount of wildlife, from tiny birds to absolute units of rhinoceroses. Highlights of this area include a nicely sized Psavannah herbivore complex with giraffes, zebras, cranes, etc. My favorite exhibit here personally would have to have been the savannah reptile area, with an open-air Nile monitor area. This was also the first place I've ever seen lesser flamingos.

Africa surprisingly takes up a huge amount of space of the zoo, so unfortunately the rest of the premises isn't really open to development. The next exhibit is the controversial Asian elephant exhibit. The area is quite expansive, but unfortunately it does have an inadequate amount of shade (More trees would help) All in all, I think that the animal rights organizations are once again acting up.

The next exhibit is the "bridge" between the elephant area and the ectotherm complex. This exhibit's viewing is a literal bridge, and it is home to some extremely rare-in-the-wild crocodilians. GHARIALS. The largest gharials I've ever seen inhabit a nice pond exhibit alongside several turtles.

The ectotherm complex itself is a very well-done exhibit featuring different types of ectotherms. Not only does it have the crowd-pleasers (Giant tortoises, giant salamanders, etc.) but a lot of different ectotherms. My personal favorite exhibit was the one featuring invasive species in Hawai'i, such as the giant African land snail. However, unfortunately I wasn't able to get pictures of 2 exhibits in here, the ones for the sungazer and American alligator. Both exhibits were quite nice, however.

We're near the end of the zoo, we'll be arriving at the final complex, Primates of the World. The first exhibit here is for orangutans, which many would say is a travesty, but I think it was a well done exhibit, it meets all of their requirements. Unfortunately, the female had to be separated from the male due to a deteriorating relationship, so she had to go to a less adequate area off to the side.

Primates of the World also features some nice modernized monkey islands with siamangs and ring-tailed lemurs. The real treat were the "easter egg" animals in here, such as the mata mata in the siamang moat and the fish all over the place.

Rounding out the primate complex are 2 exhibits, one which was unfortunately empty and another one holding spider monkeys. The final few exhibits in the zoo include a massive string of aviaries with many different birds, including the rare koloa. The last exhibit was ironically one of the first in the zoo, a flamingo pond with flamingos and such

So, what does Ebirah think of this zoo? Ebirah liked this zoo alot and thinks it is worth your time if you are ever in Honolulu.
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I was under the impression that outside of Nene, Laysan Duck, and Io, there were no endemic bird species on public display in Hawaii. Glad to know that Honolulu has Koloa.
 
Kakapo said:
Plus at least SeaWorld San Diego, that casually is where I took the photo of the species for my file archive.
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When was that, and what enclosure? I saw no sign of Nene when I was there in Dec 2017. Saw the pair at SDZ Safari Park though.
 
A slight error (Wow it's been a year since I posted here) but the crocodilians near the ectotherm complex were false gharials.
 
This whole thread is adorable! You're all squabbling and bickering like a bunch of old ladies at a bingo game--and then it just stops as you seemingly all just throw your hands in the air and stalk off in different directions! I seriously wanted more!

And from what it looks like, lol, it's taken a year and we never hear another peep about the aquarium or anything else on the trip! It just all went to hell in a skerple,...
 
AmbikaFan said:
This whole thread is adorable! You're all squabbling and bickering like a bunch of old ladies at a bingo game--and then it just stops as you seemingly all just throw your hands in the air and stalk off in different directions! I seriously wanted more!
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Were you reading a different thread? Where was the squabbling and bickering? Looking back through it, most of the posts were about Hawaiian Geese.
 
It's been a long day of tryin' to larn them young 'uns some readin' and writin' all online, and if this gives me some mild pleasure on a Friday night in life, by God, let me have it! I guess I was reading all of the hysterical non-sequiturs between the geese.;);):cool::cool:
 
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