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The world's most handsome jaguarI headed back the zoo after being away from it for less than 12 hours. Perhaps not the best planning…. I headed right over to the jaguar exhibit to see if the one I knew was on exhibit. He wasn’t, and so I hovered around for a while looking rather sketchy, until I managed to get the attention of a keeper. He was incredibly nice, and let me come back into the holding area to visit the cat! I hung around for a quite a while. He didn’t pay me any attention at all, but it was such a different setting I could hardly expect him to know me.
I then spent hours and hours wandering around the zoo, seeing, I believe, absolutely everything. The zoo takes the open exhibit plan to an extreme, it was very different from what I’m used to! When the put the orang-utans to bed at night (their exhibit is a set of trees in the center of the zoo with electric wire running around near the ground), they are brought to the ground and four at a time walk along the public path with a keeper. Definitely a different attitude about safety and disease
transmission than what I’m used to.
All the same, it is really beautiful there and people seem to love visiting a zoo where they see no bars. I don’t think the animals know the difference, but since they are exhibited in such a beautiful and natural setting, hopefully this will inspire people to care about their wild counterparts.
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phantastic photos!
Miranda what spectacular photos you've taken. From the amazing views of HK and Singapore to these awesome zoo snaps. Do the elephants really wander around with the tourists??!! ANd I love all the humor in your narratives too!