Closed Zoo photos

Steve Robinson said:
Chlidonias, I was thinking of young Mr Hornbill's continuing captive animal education!

Where else could one see an Estuarine Crocodile minus all four legs as well as it's tail [from fights due to overcrowding] lying in a pool of liquid bacteria but still alive?
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isn't it amazing that in a country like Singapore with its fantastic bird park, zoo, etc, that there is also a cesspit like that reptile park?
 
Chlidonias said:
isn't it amazing that in a country like Singapore with its fantastic bird park, zoo, etc, that there is also a cesspit like that reptile park?
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That cesspit has thankfully been closed down. Some of the rarer species have been transferred to Singapore Zoo (like aldabra giant tortoises) or overseas zoos. The crocodiles were sadly sold to other croc farms in the region for a similar fate.
 
Chlidonias said:
the dolphins aren't actually in the aquarium itself, but in a separate dolphinarium. I only went once, in 2004, and then the ticket for the aquarium was also the ticket for the dolphin show and you had to catch one of Sentosa's free buses to the other location. I don't personally like dolphin shows and only went because the pamphlet showed the dolphins as being the bright bubblegum-pink individuals, which they weren't (they were grey!)
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The silly pamphlet (which is still used today btw) actually shows bottlenosed dolphins photoshopped pink!
 
Writhedhornbill said:
Here's the itinery then::)

On the 27th of July we leave Manchester Airport for singapore. When we arrive there is around a two hour interval before we get on a plane bound for Kota Kinabalu (Sabah, Malaysian Borneo).

We will spend two and a half days (Saturday (Half day) sunday and Monday) in Kota Kinabalu looking around (there is the national park and the zoo;))

Then on the Tuesday we fly over to Sandakan. Here we will go to the Sepilok orang-utan sanctuary and end up, afterwards, at the Sukau rainforest lodge.

The next day will be spent in Sukau by the Kinabatangan river. There will be cruises by the river during the day, and also one at night!

After this we spend half a day on the river, visiting an oxbow lake and a regeneration programme. Then we will got to the Gomatong caves and look at the tree swifts. Following the caves, it's borneo rainforest lodge (Danum Valley!)

We spend a day exploring the forest surrounding the rainforest lodge, then we we go along a canopy walkway over he jungle.

The next day we look for birds and mammals in the morning and Fly bak to Kota kinabalu in the afternoon. There is not much time before we'll be on a plane bound for Singapore!

In singapore we don't have a definiate itinery, but it WILL include the Jurong bird park (two days), singapore zoo, night safari and sentosa underwater world. Then there may be one spare day before we're on the plane home.

The next day I'm off to Chester for the Junior member's Summer school!:)
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A little bad news, I heard that the single-wattled cassowary is no longer on display.

And all the new attractions at the Zoo (boat ride, new rainforest show, new kids zoo, new mixed habitat for proboscis monkey) will open successively after August.
 
Chlidonias said:
I think its amazing that the photo count went from around 7100 at the start of this thread to almost 8000 in just nine days (even allowing for snowleopard's huge contribution)
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The number is now over the 8000 mark as of today so Snowleopard may yet get the bag of Jellybeans ;)
 
Zooish said:
The silly pamphlet (which is still used today btw) actually shows bottlenosed dolphins photoshopped pink!
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I went and dug out my pamphlet thinking I was about to be looking pretty foolish, but the one I've got definitely shows humpback dolphins (beaks too long and melon wrong shape for bottle-noses) although I could quite agree the colour is a product of photoshop. Its an aquarium pamphlet with the dolphins just on the back cover. There's a dodgy-looking photo of two dolphins "spy-hopping" and a second one of a leaping dolphin (showing the dorsal fin). I was quite disappointed that the dolphins in the real show weren't pink ones :-(
 
Zooish do you know what species are kept in the new dinosaur decendants exhibit?

Have you any pictures of the tarictic hornbills?
 
I've just come back from Singapore, and I would really reccomend the bird park. The parrots are so amazing. The colours are great!

I also got bitten by a red lory!
 
Chlidonias said:
I went and dug out my pamphlet thinking I was about to be looking pretty foolish, but the one I've got definitely shows humpback dolphins (beaks too long and melon wrong shape for bottle-noses) although I could quite agree the colour is a product of photoshop. Its an aquarium pamphlet with the dolphins just on the back cover. There's a dodgy-looking photo of two dolphins "spy-hopping" and a second one of a leaping dolphin (showing the dorsal fin). I was quite disappointed that the dolphins in the real show weren't pink ones :-(
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Must be another version. I have one which is distinctly photo-shopped bottlenosed!

Maybe the young ones were used for the show when you visited. The oldest male named Jumbo is a beautiful shade of pink (not bubblegummy though) with some grey spots.
 
Writhedhornbill said:
Zooish do you know what species are kept in the new dinosaur decendants exhibit?

Have you any pictures of the tarictic hornbills?
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Haven't had time to visit! Was out of country for a while.

I believe only Ostrich, Emu, greater Rhea and Double-wattled Cassowary are displayed at Dino Descendants.

They reduced the number of cassowary pens to build more viewing shelters.
 
getting back to the original topic of gallery photos, I was just wondering what the very first photo uploaded was?
 
the first photo was not even a zoo one!!!

[photo=1;509;200304B_266485_022_19.JPG]Australia Telescope Compact Array (Narrabri)[/photo]
 
if you squint really hard you can probably make out a magpie-lark somewhere in there
 
the second one wasnt a zoo photo either the first animal one was a Mandrill at the Beijing Zoo!
 
That's nice. I'm sure there will be many more to come. Al has posted some nice pictures recently.
 
Thanks Rachnos, apologies everyone as it will take a wee while or me to go through my notes and label them!:)
 
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