We're going to the zoo today! We're going to the zoo today.
Stop it Singapore, shared umbrellas? Are you kidding me?
How many Zoos are we going to today? Too many, I think! Welcome back to another day in Singapore!
We are going to three zoos. Ok, at least we're going to try - let me explain. They have a park
hopper pass and we thought, what better way to experience multiple parks in Singapore
than by getting the park hopper pass and spending a few hours in each one?
So this begins our taste of Singapore Zoos. Let's go get started!
Finally found the otters that allegedly keep crossing the road.
He's so cute! We're starting with the River Wonders Park.
There's a tank of fish here that just have colossally enormous fish and they're
easily as massive as the scuba diver there. Here's one,
some kind of catfish. One of the reasons we wanted to come to this particular park,
the River Wonders Park, is they have a panda bear. Not only that, they've had a birth recently of
a baby panda. I've never seen a baby or a panda at all, for that matter, so that'd be really exciting.
But we actually have a lot to do today so we're going to quickly go through this park, and then
we're going to move on to the main Singapore Zoo, and then the Night Safari for this evening.
River Wonder Zoo is a relatively new zoo for Singapore. It opened under the name
River Safari only 10 years ago. 2 of the main attractions in this water themed zoo
are the fun water rides and also the incredible giant pandas.
The enclosure for the giant pandas is built to emulate the natural
4 seasons of the panda's native habitat. The zoo has a small bamboo forest that's
8,000 square meters and is grown exclusively for feeding the growing panda family.
That was really neat! We've never seen pandas before and now we've seen not one but two!
Both the mom and dad were out of their cages and eating and they were active,
and I'm so glad we went and saw them before lunch, because when we went back afterwards,
one was sleeping and one had hidden away in her kennel. The baby was not out to be seen today.
Yeah, baby's shy. It's okay, but now we've seen them! I'm so excited - they're so cute.
Much bigger than we thought. Yeah, they were kind of roly-poly and when they ate, they
would roll around on their back and eat. Just looked like they were really enjoying
themselves. I love it when they recline and eat, they remind me of Homer Simpson on a sofa.
Oh my god.
[laughter]
And that's why the boat's wet on the inside.
The boat is an extra five Singapore dollars when you come to the River Wonder Zoo.
It's pretty cool though so far. If you buy the combo ticket, it's included. See any monkeys?
They're huge!
Well, they let us ride it a second time. One of the benefits of coming here on a weekday
in what we think is off season. We got here on a Thursday in early April, so we got to go on the
River Ride once, and we tried to film a bunch of things, and then a second time where we just
went with our eyes and enjoyed it for ourselves. It was really neat; we got done the second time, and
they're like, "do you want to go again?" Ok, wow. They were serious. We get that you're slow.
Anyhow, we have about an hour to see what's left, so we have a little bit of ground to make up.
While Singapore Zoo is consistently rated one of the best zoos in the world,
both it and River Wonders shared some unique features. Both had animal habitats that were
generally larger than other zoos, plus a number of them in both parks are sort of this open
free-range type of habitat where we, the visitors - yes, us! - can enter and walk among the animals.
This was fun and occasionally a bit startling when we visited the monkey enclosure. Ok, Ok.
So Heather says the Golden Lion Headed Tamarin is the cutest monkey here. It's
probably not a monkey technically. The face was so human-like. It was also kind of creepy.
Well, we just finished up park number one. We spent about 3 hours there - it was River Wonders.
It's mostly aquatic things. There's some really unique
fish that we've never seen before. I've definitely never seen manatees in captivity, for example. Plus we
got to see the pandas! We got to see the pandas, so that was a real highlight. Also the monkey
interactive area - oh yeah, the monkey forest! - was a real highlight. So now we are off to zoo
number two and that is the Singapore Zoo. All right, let's go! And we are at the next park.
Hey Bill, what are you doing? I'm looking for macaque.
All three zoos we visited dedicate a portion of their ticket sales to regional conservation
efforts like habitat preservation, reducing wildlife trade, and protecting endangered species.
They currently have around 50 projects that they're supporting.
Oh my god, that was loud. I thought there was a fight going on. I think there was! So one of the things we've learned
today is that we could watch primates just about all day long.
That was a lot of fun and as an added bonus, none of them threw poop at us!
If you decide to come here, what we did is we bought a multi-park ticket which is 108 Singapore
dollars, and it gets you into all 3 of the zoo parks that are right here, where are where we are
today, and also there is a bird park which we plan to go see later in the week. It's 4 parks for
108 dollars, so it's a real value.
For the record, I wanted to include the warthogs but Heather said, "Only cute animals on our vlog!"
Apparently we are to keep an eye out for green vines on the ground. They're not vines; they wiggle.
They're snakes. I'm not a fan of snakes - it's been well documented.
Oh, it landed on you! It did? Yeah. Is it still there? No, it's gone.
It's a butterfly garden, which I've never gone to one, and I sort of always wanted to go to and now I
regret things. It turns out that they are a great idea until they come flying at your face. Oh god.
If you do come here, there is a lot to do. I think we probably spent a little bit too much time on the
River side, and there's actually more to see on the Singapore Zoo side. It's a little
after five o'clock right now, they shut at six, so we're trying to hurry up and finish our lap.
Oh god. Don't peck me. Don't peck me.
We're surrounded! Excuse us.
Apparently, this is a pigeon. I'm shocked - prettiest pigeon I've ever seen.
That was really fun! The butterfly aviary? I'm not sure what you'd call it? Butterfly garden.
The Butterfly Garden, Heather got out of there pretty quickly, but I was recording some things. [Oh, I want to go in the kid's thing!]
I was recording some things, and there was one butterfly in particular that probably landed on
me half a dozen times, which was kind of fun for me - not so much for Heather. This place has a ton to do
for kids. I mean, zoos are always great for kids, but they've got some dedicated activities. They've got
this huge rope course, which Heather's probably just recorded a bunch of b-roll about. How much
fun does this look?? Looks like there's an extra fee to go in this, a rope course. Oh my gosh, it looks
amazing. It's a good thing we're out of time or I'd have to talk Bill into doing this with me.
Anyway, looks like a lot of fun.
I got Chow Ying Yong, which they also called Chow Fu, and that's the size of my head. Also, why
does Singapore not give out napkins? I have to eat these shrimp with my fingers, and
why?? I'll try some of the noodle first.
Oh my gosh, the sauce is so, so good. It was described online as an egg gravy,
and it tastes sort of like Egg Foo Young. It is delicious. It is so good. Oh, I can't wait to dig in,
but I'm going to need a napkin. Sorry, Singapore.
It's so good. What's, what's the matter? Help!
Dinner is messy, but delicious!
We are at the Night Safari, and we got here and we thought we were getting on a
shuttle to go to the other side of the park, and instead we ended up being on a tram that went all
the way around the park. We got to see a bunch of the animals in their evening habitat.
Now because all of this is at night, and our camera is something that fits in our pocket, then
our quality of our videos might not be what you're used to - but please enjoy what we have been able
to take. There were elephants and lions and tigers, and actually bears, oh my. It was kind of a moonlit
evening and it was really neat to see them. They're a little bit friskier at night, so this is really a
unique park, and we're really excited to be here. As soon as we got done with the tram taking us
all the way around the park, we were able to get into the show that happened right afterwards.
powerful free hands and tails - just like that.
Now, despite their size they are actually excellent at both long jumps and high
jumps and Xiaomi will be showing us her hunting skill, leaping and pouncing, to catch a bird.
All right, eyes on the target, oh wow! Small Claw Otters are the smallest species of otter in the entire world!
Into the bin!
I think we understand why Baby has three bottles and Bubbles only has one! We saw some owls and
we saw just how dexterous raccoons are, and we saw the cutest little white thing that looked like a
dog with giant ears. Anyhow they showed us a lot of the different animals in the evening. We've really
been amazed by our time here. Well, we just finished up walking the trails here at the Night Safari,
and this is such a unique zoo, I think out of the three zoos, this one was probably my favorite
because it offers something that we've not experienced anywhere that we've gone. If you're
looking for the most unique zoo, come to the Night Safari. If you're looking for one that's really
good for a rainy day, we would recommend the River Wonders. That one had a lot of covered space so you
could easily go there when it's raining -maybe not a downpour - but still a great one to visit if it's
raining. The Singapore Zoo is the one to go to if you want an all-day affair. It's massive. I feel
like on that one we saw most, but not all, of it and we definitely didn't make it to any of the shows.
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