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Which animal come to your mind first when you know you are going to visit the Singapore Zoo


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I’m actually heading to Singapore Zoo for the first time in June,despite having visited the Night Safari when I was 14 and living in Singapore’s neighboring country - Malaysia,I would say Singapore Zoo has been in my top lists of places to visit when i’m on the island,that and I hope to catch a glimpse of their urban wild smooth coated otters!

But if I have to say which animal I would probably see first,it’s either the cheetahs or painted dogs
Hi, my animal lover friend. I think I do have a cheetahs feeding show video. I since you like them, I will post it on saturday over here. I hope you don't will like it.
 
Cheetahs feeding session, Video clips. Please take note, This event on daily at 1.45pm. Advice, please be early 5 mins before time. Hope all my animal lover friends will enjoy and love it.
 
Did she actually do anything to get that fame or did people just inexplicably fall in love with her like Boris at Chester?



Reminds me more of Boris as mentioned above, considering Snowflake was at least an odd looking animal. I didn't realize Snowflake died in 2003,

~Thylo

I don't know if there is any backstory to Ah Meng's 'fame', or whether they just promoted her as a celebrity animal, I think perhaps the latter. And I believe she was also their oldest orangutan for some time. Of course in Asia, more so than Europe, 'performing' animals are still fairly acceptable so promoting her as a tourist attraction would be fairly normal too.

Barcelona's Snowflake was quite unique in the zoo world of course. They knew they were going to have to euthanase him because of his skin cancer and advertised a last chance to see him in the months before he died. I think they also tried surreptiously to create a successor( i.e. another white gorilla) by keeping him with one of his daughters at one stage, though overcrowding or similar was cited as the reason at the time. No baby resulted though.
 
Hi, Yes, I actually want to edit it, can you kindly share with me how to do it? :D

Hm. It might be too late. I didn't realize it, but it looks like the function goes away after an unknown period of time.

Oh No...: ( But thanks for your help my animal lover friend.

I've fixed it by deleting three of the options with no votes, reinstating the "Other" category and adding Colugo and Proboscis Monkey categories.

In the name of fairness (given that all the prior votes for "Other" were deleted anyhow when you removed that category) I have also reset all votes to zero so people can vote again with the full range of options.
 
I think they also tried surreptiously to create a successor( i.e. another white gorilla) by keeping him with one of his daughters at one stage, though overcrowding or similar was cited as the reason at the time. No baby resulted though.

Of course, he has several descendants - at least one of which is said to exhibit partial depigmentation, although I don't know the truth of these claims.
 
Of course, he has several descendants - at least one of which is said to exhibit partial depigmentation, although I don't know the truth of these claims.

Never heard about the partial depigmentation- a lot of baby gorillas have some pink digits, which fade with age. Snowflake had many offspring but far less that survived to maturity. He also has grandchildren too.
 
I've fixed it by deleting three of the options with no votes, reinstating the "Other" category and adding Colugo and Proboscis Monkey categories.

In the name of fairness (given that all the prior votes for "Other" were deleted anyhow when you removed that category) I have also reset all votes to zero so people can vote again with the full range of options.
Big big thanks, wonderful job. Now everyone of the animal lover can vote what they really like. :D
 
Ah Meng was a famous Orangutan at the zoo (the poll lists her). Amongst Singaporeans her name would still be really well-known, despite having died a decade ago, but almost nobody from anywhere else would have heard of her.

There's a memory wall dedicated to Ah Meng outside, appropriately enough, Ah Meng's Restaurant. I will have to look at my pictures for specifics, but there are a couple of pictures with Steve Irwin so she at least had regional fame. There might have been one with Mr. Lee as well.

Anyway, per the zoo, one of her grand daughters has been named (renamed?) Ah Meng because she looks/acts a lot like her forebear. It looks like the name will be going the way of Shamu soon.
 
Orangutan session, Video clip. Please take note, This event on daily at 3.30pm. Advice, please be early 5 mins before time. Hope all my animal lover friends will enjoy and love it.
 
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