Today was fun filled and packed with lots of activities. Liz and I started out at the Singapore Zoo, which I have heard so many great things about. It is a really fun experience, and a surprisingly large park. I am used to the San Diego Zoo, so I am a bit spoiled, but the Singapore Zoo is a great place too. One of the things that I really enjoyed was how the enclosures seem to be very integrated into the public experience. There are places when there are monkeys swinging from vines above your head, and orangutans climb across ropes over the walkway. The highlights of the zoo are the proboscis monkeys, which apparently are the largest captive population of any zoos, the Komodo dragon babies, which haven't been bread successfully here for over 34 years, and I really enjoyed the elephant zoo, which reminded me of elephant shows in America when I was growing up, before there were all sorts of rules put in place about how people and elephants could interact. The downside of the elephant show were the elephants spraying the crowd with water from the moat. We didn't quite realize that we were in the "splash zone" until it was too crowded to move away from it.
When it got dark, Carolyn joined us for the Night Safari. I have been to this the last time that I came to Singapore, and it was still a lot of fun. I think that the animals were more active last time though. For instance, my favorite exhibit were the giant flying squirrels who were flying all over the place last time. This time, they seemed to be on holiday because they were just sitting around eating and looking cute.
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