Chapter 420: Haunting at Night

In the evening, come to the night safari, which is known as the most special zoo in Asia.

According to the tour guide, there are two routes to visit the Night Zoo, one is a car lane and the other is a sidewalk. There are some places where the two routes do not coincide, and if one is missing, some animals will not be able to see it. Get on the bus first. It takes about 40 minutes to get around the Night Zoo by car. The car is relatively fast, and you can only walk around the whole zoo on it.

When I saw a few lions, I didn't care about it at first, this kind of thing is a zoo, even if it is very well raised, it is a lion, even if it is the big white lion above, Johnson didn't care too much. Unexpectedly, a strange group of lioness appeared, with their belly drooping and many folds on it......

Listen to the introduction is actually a rare Asiatic lion?

There are lions in Asia, too, so why don't people know about it? Because there are so few. They were once widespread in Central and South Asia, but are now nearly extinct. If it weren't for the Indians leaving them a little blood, the Asiatic lion would have been gone. At present, there are only a few hundred Asiatic lions in the world, and nearly 10 can be seen at the Singapore Night Zoo.

One of the attractions of a night zoo is that you can see the animals behaving at night. The overall environment is very dark, and the brightest animal exhibit only has a lamp with a brightness similar to that of a full moon. For those animals that adapt to extremely dark environments, the lights in the cages are particularly dim, and even in some cages, the lights are dark red, which is to minimize the impact on the behavior of nocturnal animals. So, if you look closely, you can find a lot of interesting natural behaviors.

The red muntjac is a small deer, only the size of a large dog, and is more prone to neuroticism. In the picture above, there is a male red muntjac, with beautiful horns, good physical condition, and smooth fur. Beside it, there is also a female deer......

Suddenly I noticed that there was a little thing walking around in the dark? Maybe it was a big night, and the hind relaxed a lot, and took the little one out for a walk, and then met us tourists. It was the first time SC Johnson had seen the red muntjac cub and couldn't help but want to get closer.

At this point, the deer were a little nervous, and something interesting happened. The female red muntjac left her cub and walked straight to the stag lying on the ground. The stag didn't move, just watched the hind walk around him. The left cub turned around and walked away from the hind and hid in the shadow of a tree, not moving:

If you hadn't observed the whole process, you wouldn't have been able to find the fawn in the dark shadows of the trees. This way of dealing with it should be the strategy of the red muntjac cub to avoid the enemy: hide in the shadows by himself, and the mother will lure the enemy away.

The result was wrong, and the tour guide said that this small one was not a red muntjac, let alone a cub, but a mole deer. There is a small tusk on the top of the mouth. Hiding in the shadows is a nighttime strategy for the mole.

The muntjac is also called the dog barking deer in English, which means that they will bark like a dog when they encounter an enemy, this sound was not heard just now, and it seems that the red muntjac is not very nervous.

The arrogant predators are mostly mobile at night, such as the spotted hyena. When we first saw the group of spotted hyenas, they were still very quiet and the years were quiet.

After a while, the feeding keeper came out. As soon as he got closer, the spotted hyenas fryed......

When a few pieces of meat were thrown in, the dogs scrambled. Several spotted hyenas screamed excitedly, and for a moment, wild laughter floated through the night sky. The barking of spotted hyenas is really similar to the weird laughter of humans.

Asian cats alone see tigers, leopards, clouded leopards, Asian golden cats, ocelots, fishing cats. In Chinese, Biao in Long, Tiger and Leopard Biao is the golden cat, and it is said that the three skimming of this character is the pictogram of the vertical pattern on the head of the golden cat.

This medium-sized cat, native to Asia, has a muscular and powerful appearance, and SC Johnson is particularly fond of it, and it is the first time he has seen it even if he has traveled all over the world.

The display of fishing cats in the night zoo is particularly good, the site is very large, there are high trees to climb, there are pools where you can go down to catch fish, but it is relatively open. At night, when the fishing cat comes out to hang out, it is easy to be seen. The fishing cat is a special soldier in the cat family, with webbed feet, and is especially good at going into the water to catch fish.

In addition to cats, there are also rats. The night zoo has a large cage with flying squirrels. One can burrow into this large cage and look for flying squirrels, bats, and several species of birds between the branches. At night, the flying squirrel's huge glasses are shiny and very cute.

In SC Johnson's view, a good zoo is also home to the small wild animals in the area, which can complement the display. Special attention is paid to the display of wild bats. In the night zoo, you can often see bananas hanging from trees in the open air and signs introducing wild bats. Take a closer look at the bananas, and if you're lucky, you'll come across several cute little ones who are greedily nibbling.

The leopard trail focuses on more mysterious animals living in Eurasia, especially the felines that are rarely seen on weekdays, which can attract visitors to stop and stop there. Behind a glass curtain wall, you can see the rarest clouded leopard and golden cat pacing around the house, you can see the leopard coming towards you from the dense forest, and you can see the lazy sleeping position of the rare Asiatic lion.

To measure the level of a zoo, just look at how well several species of leopards are raised. Leopards are smaller than ligers, often not taken seriously, and have a more sensitive personality, which is more responsive to negative effects, and is easy to raise poorly.

But because of their small size, the investment required to make a cage that meets their needs is not particularly large. So the leopard can be used as an indicator. As long as a zoo is willing to invest money and energy in leopards and raise leopards well, then this zoo will not be bad.

It's a pity that the leopards and clouded leopards here are not particularly well raised, and there are more obvious stereotypical behaviors. The clouded leopard has only three legs, and it either doesn't move on the climbing frame or walks back and forth after getting off the ground. The stereotypical behavior of the leopard is more obvious, constantly spinning in circles.

Of course, these two venues still seem to have put a lot of thought into it. The vegetation is very good, and there are also three-dimensional climbing frames. But the biggest flaw should be the space, which is really not big enough. I don't know if this result is a compromise on the night show.

The Fishing Cat Trail is the starting point of the four end-to-end, trail-named walking areas in the Night Safari, which showcase the mystical nocturnal animals of tropical Asia.

You can see mammals such as fishercats that are not afraid of water, mammals such as mammals that are cute and cute, bears and coconut civets that come and go freely in the night, and you can also watch out for fish and crocodiles swimming through the water.

The East Station Trail is a different from its predecessors, home to Malayan tigers that were only discovered in 2004 and are at risk of extinction since their discovery, with the precious Malayan tiger being the second smallest tiger in the world and having a distinctive body colour and appearance.

Named after the wallabies and ending at the Wallabies Trail, the walking area showcases exotic species from the continent and the burrowing creatures that live in ancient caves, such as brush-tailed possums that carry baby rats on their backs. In particular, the Narrakot Cave exhibit, which highly simulates a real cave, can see many insects such as spiders and rainforest scorpions living in pitch black, and it is also the first man-made cave in Singapore.