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Published: June 23rd 2014
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The River Safari
We went to the Singapore river safari the next day, to see the four largest river animals live and learn all about the rivers. The first was the Mississippi River right near our home in Canada. We sortof skipped over it, but we did look at some of the fish and turtles that were new to me, like snapping turtles. I have seen them on TV, but not live so it was different. There were also Gars, a fish that is a lot like an alligator and a major predator in the Mississippi River. There were smaller fish too, and a beaver. I've seen many in the wild. We had a reservation at 1:00 pm for the mini Amazon river cruise. The boat went way too fast and we couldn't get any really good pictures and it felt like it sped up when we went by the Jaguars. I got no pictures of them, not fair! After the river ride we went and saw the Panda Bears and the small Red Bears. There were also these chicers that the males are golden and the females are all brown and not that beautiful. But the males are full
of colour. The male panda was lounging in the sun, sleeping, and the female was hiding in her den for a long time. We went and found a bite to eat, then we came back and she was wandering around all over the place. She ran by the fence and ran back to the little den and hid away again. We then went and saw a little show put on by volunteers, showing different types of animals and reptiles. Then another one where they fed the big fish and the fresh water stingray. It was so cool; the stingrays just sucked up the food as the swam by. Then another show with a vulture and a hedgehog. I got to stand by the vulture. We left to go to the Congo and Amazon river sections. We first got to the Congo river. We saw monkeys and animals that survive on the water from the river. There was also an anaconda in a big glass cage. We just saw a little bit of the anaconda since he was hiding in the pool covered by leaves. We then went and saw the Amazon river where we saw the jaguar just lying there
not doing nothing. I thought that it should be set free, back to the wild even though I know it could never happen since it doesn't have the instincts like the others of its kind, but that doesn't justify it at all. The jaguar needs to be in a more open space then what it's in now. But it was amazing to see specially since we could almost never see one in the wild, since they are masters of stealth and stalking through the forest. There are so many different fish, too many and some not even known to humans. There were many plants an bugs, plus we lose thousands of them disappearing every month from forest destruction. Such a sad thing, and I'm going to try to help lessen the destruction by doing an awareness walk when we get home and maybe even set up a web site all about it. Enough of the sad talk, let's continue on the Amazon river walk. We got to the bigger mammals that spend most or all of their life i the water, like the giant river otters and manatees. They were in giant tanks of water to swim the day away, happy and full of food. We got to the manatees as they started feeding time with small dead fish for the pike like fish, and lettuce for the manatees. They are so BIG!! and have one really big tail with no legs and two front flippers. Their faces look sort of like some types of dogs with all the wrinkles and short nose, a little ugly or a lot ugly is what I think, but a majestic animal at that. We were at the giant otter tank first, but they weren't swimming around. So luckily, right by the manatee tank was the other viewing point for the otters, so we saw them a little, later on, full of life not like earlier when they were hiding from us. We moved up more for more angles of seeing the manatees in the middle and above the water, where we could see the divers feeding them very well. They were surrounded by manatees pushing them around. We could see the smaller fresh water stingrays, quite small actually, but could still really hurt you with its sting if you threatened it. On a last log, we saw the river otters from above now and heard their chirping, talking to each other like good friends would. They chased each other around, almost like tag. I saw many attributes of humans in them. all was a big family and of course there is fighting between them too. That was the end of the river Safari in Singapore, We were right in front of the exit. We then hot a taxis back to our friends house for supper. We made plans for the night safari the next day, that was enough walking for one day. so later me and the 14 year old played Fifa 14 till we went to bed.
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