Five Lill Ducks

Caught sight of these lovely ducklings while doing duty last year... and suddenly the song 'Five Lill Ducks' came into my mind...

Five little ducks
Went out one day
Over the hill and far away
Mother duck said "Quack, quack, quack, quack."
But only four little ducks came back.

Four little ducks
Went out one day
Over the hill and far away
Mother duck said "Quack, quack, quack, quack."
But only three little ducks came back.

Three little ducks
Went out one day
Over the hill and far away
Mother duck said "Quack, quack, quack, quack."
But only two little ducks came back.

Two little ducks
Went out one day
Over the hill and far away
Mother duck said "Quack, quack, quack, quack."
But only one little duck came back.

One little duck
Went out one day
Over the hill and far away
Mother duck said "Quack, quack, quack, quack."
But none of the five little ducks came back.

Sad mother duck
Went out one day
Over the hill and far away
The sad mother duck said "Quack, quack, quack."
And all of the five little ducks came back.

Credits: http://www.kidsstuffandthings.com

Brinjals

Brinjal called 'eggplant' because of the shape of the first variety that English speakers came across. A popular vegetable with many different colours, shapes and sizes.

Nipple Brinjal
This South American plant is also known as cow's udder or titty fruit because of its iterestingly shaped fruit. The Choco Indians use the fruit to poison cockroaches. The seeds are used to treat kidney and bladder problems.

Lesser Mouse Dear

小鼷鹿

中文学名： 小鼷鹿
中文目名： 偶蹄目
中文科名： 鼷鹿科
中文属名： 鼷鹿属
同物异名： Cervus javanicus,　Tragulus javanicus williamsoni,　
中文俗名： 鼠鹿 　小鹿 　小鼷鹿 　马来亚鼷鹿 　改范 　
拉丁文目名： ARTIODACTYLA
拉丁文科名： Tragulidae
拉丁文属名： Tragulus
拉丁文种名： williamsoni
物种命名人及年代： Kloss, 1916


And now a story for you on Lesser Mouse Deer...

Outwitting a Crocodile

A Traditional Malaysian Folktale

Retold by Chok Yoon Foo from Malaysia

Sang Kancil is a clever, tricky mouse deer who is always finding himself in predicaments with animals that want to eat him or harm him, but he cleverly manages to escape each time. In this story, Sang Kancil outwits a big, bad crocodile.

He stepped on each crocodile, counting each one, and finally reached the other side of the river.

Sang Kancil was a clever mouse deer. Whenever he was in a bad situation, he always played a clever trick to escape. In this story, Sang Kancil outwitted Sang Buaya, a big, bad crocodile, who wanted to eat him.

There were many trees whereSang Kancil's lived along the river, so he never had trouble finding food. There were always lots of leaves. He spent his time running and jumping and looking into the river.

Sang Buaya, the big bad crocodile, lived in the river with other crocodiles. They were always waiting to catch Sang Kancil for dinner. One day when Sang Buaya was walking along the river, he saw some delicious fruit on the trees on the other side the river.

Sang Kancil wanted to taste the tasty-looking fruit because he was a little tired of eating leaves. He tried to think of a way to cross the river, but he had to be careful. He didn't want to be caught and eaten by Sang Buaya. He needed to trick Sang Buaya.

Sang Kancil suddenly had an idea He called out to the crocodile, "Sang Buaya! Sang Buaya!" Sang Buaya slowly came out of the water and asked Sang Kancil why he was shouting his name. He asked Sang Kancil, "Aren't you afraid I will eat you?" Then he opened his big mouth very wide to scare Sang Kancil.

Sang Kancil said, "Of course, I am afraid of you, but the king wants me to do something. He is having a big feast with lots of food, and he is inviting everyone, including you and all the other crocodiles. But first, I have to count all of you. He needs to know how many of you will come. Please line up across the river, so I can walk across your heads and count all of you."

Sang Buaya was excited and left to tell the other crocodiles about the feast with all the good food. Soon, they came and made a line across the river. Sang Kancil said, "Promise not to eat me because or I can't report to the king how many of you are coming. They promised not to eat him.

Sang Kancil stepped on Sang Buaya's head and counted one. Then he stepped on the next one and said, "Two." He stepped on each crocodile, counting each one, and finally reached the other side of the river. Then he said to Sang Buaya,"Thank you for helping me to cross the river to my new home."

Sang Buaya was shocked and angry. He shouted at Sang Kancil, "You tricked us! There is no feast, is there?" All of the crocodiles looked at Sang Buaya angrily. They were angry because he let Sang Kancil trick all of them.

Sang Kancil loved his new home on the other side of the river because he had a lot of tasty food to eat. Poor Sang Buaya was not so lucky. After that, none of the other crocodiles ever talked to him again.

Source:
http://hanyu.iciba.com/wiki/264960.shtml
http://www.topics-mag.com/folk-tales/folk-tale-cleverness-mayl.htm

Red-shouldered Macaw

The Red-shouldered Macaw (Diopsittaca nobilis) is the smallest macaw being 30–35 centimetres (12–14 inches) in length. It is not considered to be an endangered species, but wild populations have declined locally due to habitat loss.

And this poor little macaw had broken its beak due to unknown reasons. In reality, many birds will suffer beak injuries during the course of their lives as their upper and lower beaks are vulnerable to trauma and will often fracture as a result. Such injuries are orthopedic in nature.

Some beak injuries result in permanent, disfiguring damage, requiring the bird to eat soft foods for the rest of its life, but other injuries may heal quite well allowing the bird to return to normal beak functioning.

There had been a case when a dentist actually managed to make a dental impression of a healthy beak for a Bald Eagle, reproduced the beak with the same materials used for our teeth and successfully attached the beak thus allowing the Bald Eagle to function normally. Other materials that can be used to rebuild beaks include acrylics (the same material used for artificial nails).

As I have not been to the zoo for a long time, I wonder how is this macaw doing. While the hope that its beak will recover may not seem too high, but remembering how it kept polishing the cage with its broken beak and making noises, my heart really sank with it. I think losing its beak changed not only its food habits, it might really change its whole life.

Source:
Wiki
Avian Web

More Babies In the Zoo

After my last post on Love is in the air.. in the zoo
I realised there are more and more new arrivals.. starting with 2 ring-tailed baby lemurs

Photographed by Shirley, a fellow docents and another expert photographer whose photos always bring us delight. She took this when it was just a few days old...

And she took this after a few weeks. Unfortunately my camera battery had went flat that day so I could not captured any shots other than video. Actually the video shot is nice hahah.. but blurry still so decided to showcased Shirley's photo instead.

Another arrival is the baby sloth.. yipee again!
See the baby is yawning. I caught the video but yup.. I think Shirley's photo does it a better justice haha

The latest arrival which had the WRS publicising a note here goes to this little Grant Zebra, born 28th April 2010. It has been quite awhile since the last zebra foal was born in 2005 and thus this is quite a celebrated news in the zoo I supposed.

And yupz this time I did managed to catch a shot as this is solely the reason why I had brought my camera out today. (though seriously Shirley's photo is once again better but I can't possible keep stealing her photos for this post).

Lastly, when I took this photo, I felt the blissful love in the air... and conjured out this phrase
"Love is when you can yawn and not mind your partner looking at you.."

Love is in the air.. in the zoo

Love is in the air in the first quarter of the zoo..

In January, I check out the sunbears, my to-do list after reading that
"The sun bear is the world's smallest bear. It is easily identified by the pale yellow U-shape crest on its chest that is said to resemble a setting sun, hence its name."

Setting sun... just have to see it to believe it.. and boy I caught these 2 sun bears fighting out of love (I'm not sure their gender by the way).. caught a video because there is just no way I can take photos of them. Then print screen thus the effect is.. blurred wahahah

After duty, another RA scene wahahaha.. the Aldabra Giant Tortoises were mating.. Well being tortoises, they are slower so I was able to get clearer photos. And they were pretty fierce too.

The next month, I did not catch sight of any love-making scenes, but I caught sight of the aftermath.. peachicks.. scuttling after their mother. So cool. I almost could not capture them. 2 little children were chasing after these peachicks too with their mum telling them not to scare these chicks. The scene is so warm and fuzzy...

Oh and recently I saw the River Safari logo in the office already. Hmm cannot wait to see River Safari opening.. 2011???

A moment of silence...

I decided to blog it after pondering for sometime, dedicating a moment of silence to a zebra that I do not know. I have never done attachment for that area and though I fed the giraffes before, I'm not that close to the zebras.

But while looking at my photos, I once again felt the saddness I had experienced at that spot.  I felt the keeper's tenderness as he stroked the zebra for the last time.  Most of the photos showed the zebra's eyes which I felt were so big that it gives me a feeling that the zebra died a sudden death.  This photo, however, had its eyes partially covered and thus was less frightening and more solemn.

I do not know why it died nor did I plan to ask.  Partly there isn't a chance to ask the keeper.  I don't see their need to explain to the visitors on site either.  And partly because they seem sad (and busy as well first while trying to resuscitate it and then while trying to remove it from the site).  I just don't think it is appropriate to ask.

Actually there were other stuff I planned to blog but somehow I lost the feel already.  Plus the photos did not really turn out well.  It is the second time I brought my bro's toy out and I am still learning thus the photos did not turn out well.  But as I went through my old photos, I realised I once just took photo for the sake of remembering/recording my memories only.  But over the years, as I took more and more photos, I begun to have higher expectation of the photos.  And I am starting to hate my unsteady hands haha.  Anyway I posted some of the better photos from the toy in my FB.  I hope to improve further...

Last note, I realised there is a new recycling method to applaud for

Recycling the maps.. except if the maps were in good condition, throwing into the box might not be such a good idea?  I guess still can be improved further...

Otters squealing

I am still wondering why the otters were squealing the whole morning so went to do some research..

Source: Kidsplanet
How do sea otters communicate?
Through body contact, nosing one another, head-jerking and vocalizations. Sea otters, in comparison to sea lions, for example, are not extremely vocal animals. However, adults use a soft, low cooing sound, and grunts to exhibit "contentedness," among other things. Pups use a high-pitch squeal to communicate with their mom. Some other sounds in the vocal repertoire of sea otters include whistles, whimpers, squeaks, whines, growls, snarls and hisses.

hmm... were they hungry? in danger? am still puzzled...

Why Flamingos are pink... and more interesting facts learnt

Testudines

Turtles, terrapins and tortoises are all reptiles and belong to the order Testudines.

Tortoise are land-dwelling (terrestrial) subgroup of turtles. They use water for drinking and bathing only. They have high, domed shells and have trunklike legs with stumpy, clawed feet. Testudines found in coastal, brackish waters are called terrapins. They are sometimes called "diamondbacks" due to the unique, angular designs on their shells. They have webbed feet with claws. Other turtles are marine or freshwater dwellers. These aquatic turtles have longer toes that are webbed or limbs that look like flippers to help with swimming, and they typically have a more flattened, streamlined shell. About 70% of all turtles live in freshwater.

FYI A group of turtles is called a bale. The largest turtle living today is the leatherback.

Read more from Itchyfingers.

Source:
Why Flamingos are pink... and 250 other things you should know
by Valeri R. Helterbran


Pygmy Hippopotamus
A rare and endangered species of animal, the pygmy hippopotamus (or 'hippo' for short), has been found in Liberia. Pygmy means smaller than the usual type. And these are nocturnal creatures aka active during the night.

Photo here.

Source: BBC English

Why are flamingos pink?
They prefer to live in the warm, shallow, salty lagoons and lakes of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. One species, however, lives in the cold lakes of the Andes Mountains. One of the most obvious characteristics of flamingos is their reddish or pink coloration. Interestingly, many of the foods that they eat are rich in carotenoid pigment, much like the pigment in carrots. They eat shrimp and other crustaceans, algae, aquatic insects, and plankton. Without this diet, the flamingos' feathers would become grayish white. Zookeepers are careful to supplement flamingo food with special pigments to maintain their birds' beautiful color.

Flamingos have unusual, boomerang-like bills. To eat, the flamingo immerses its bill upside down in the water so that its head is actually facing backward. In that position, it uses its fleshy tongue to pump water through its bill, which acts like a strainer or filter to catch food items.

Here are a few more interesting flamingo facts:
* Flamingos live in large colonies called pats
* What looks like the flamingo's knee is actually its ankle
* Roman emperors considered flamingo tongue to be a delicacy.

Source:
Why Flamingos are pink... and 250 other things you should know
by Valeri R. Helterbran

Komodo Dragon
All reptiles shed their skin (remember snakes), so it is no surprise to see a komodo dragon mouliting.  Except it shed by bits and pieces.  That piece of skin beside the dragon is the best proof!

 Bamboo Chicken
In Central America, where iguana meat is frequently consumed, iguanas are referred to as "bamboo chicken" or "chicken of the trees." Large females are a favourite, because of the availability of eggs. But if everybody vie to eat these females, then how is reproduction going to be successful for this species?

Day Safari

Disclaimer: This post will not contain any photos out of respect to the NS protocol which disallow any photography regarding the behind-the-scenes. What it does contains are the interesting facts that the keepers shared with me and the memorable observations that I made.

Interesting fact 1 – Operations
NS works very differently from the Zoo mainly because the animals have to be active at night. Thus most feeding must be done in the evening to condition the animal to sleep in the day and eat at night. However conditioning is not the correct word to use in this case because these animals are usually nocturnal animals and are just exhibiting their natural behaviour. So I should say is we i.e. the human have adapted to their natural cycle of cleaning their compounds, preparing their food and doing the daily housekeeping chores in the day. Then we will start the feeding in the evening. (By then I wasn't around to participate already.. a pity I suppose.. )

Interesting fact 2 – Baby giraffe

A giraffe begins its life by falling six feet to the ground. The shock of the fall starts its breathing.

The first species of animals I met is a family of 3 African giraffes where baby girl Kayla (Not sure if the spelling is right) is almost a year old already. When she first arrived in Earth, she was almost 1.8m. That sure is one tall lady. A calf grows fast when young such that by 6 months, it can be quite independent of its mother if in the wild. However after that, the growth rate would be greatly decreased thus mama giraffe is not much taller than baby Kayla. And if you are wondering, baby giraffes unlike human, comes out legs first so as to balance themselves immediately. Nature fear that if the head comes out first, there might be some serious struggle which might cause breakage of neck. And yes, you guessed it, mama giraffe gives birth while standing.

Interesting fact 3 – More on giraffe

Giraffes only need to sleep deeply for 20 minutes each night.

I also learnt that the papa giraffe has a darker skin colour than the mama giraffe and that their print is like a finger print with nobody else having the same print as them. But what I like best about giraffe is the fact that they only need to sleep 20 minutes to 4 hours. Thus they were awake the whole time I was there, constantly munching their leaves and walking around. I sure wish I have such ability to gain the extra waking hours hmmm...

Interesting fact 3 - Food
Badger food was stewed! Keeper says this is to prevent choking. And I have to admit the smell of the stew is pretty tempting with the potatoes, carrots, quill eggs (unshelled, apparently the badger knows how to shelled eggs too), bean stalks etc. Oh and I was quite a klutz in the kitchen, being unable to even chop the chicken parts into smaller bites. Somehow the bones don't seem to get chopped up under my knife. Thus I ended up tying fruits with string and doing some simple tasks.

Interesting fact 4 - Porcupine
After the food preparation comes the food delivery (suddenly felt like those delivery man delivering those daily cooked food haha). While following the keeper, I met more animals e.g. the porcupines. There are 3 types of porcupines in NS-Leopard trail. The Long-tailed porcupine which had sadly lost her tail through some fright and will not be growing back again (exhibiting a behaviour much like the lizard except some lizards are able to regrow their tail).

The other 2 species were the Malayan and the Indian crested porcupines where the Indian crested are bigger in shape. Thus they were quite cool when they saw me and were not a least afraid of me. I even had the chance to feed the Indian crested porcupine each a bean stalk. They look so much like a big rodent when they were clawing the glass panel. Their neighbour, the Malayan porcupine on the other hand never stop rattling upon catching sight of me, turning her back towards me and raising all her quills at me that I got quite afraid too haha.


Interesting fact 5 – Slow Loris

The world's only poisonous primate.

Keeper says slow loris is not as slow as what the name says, especially when it comes to food. And that it may looks cute, but it is known to be toxic! Its venom is stored in an elbow patch and the loris will suck in the poison from the patch, then mix it around in its mouth before delivering a toxic bite. Scary right? But if you do not know this fact, it actually looks very cute. See here for a photo of a slow loris.

Interesting fact 6 – Flight or Fight distance

This was mentioned when we were giving food to the female Malay Civet cat. When the keeper placed the food in her cage, she kept pacing around even though she was hungry. It was only when we backed off that she came forward for her food. The keeper said that was flight distance. If I were in the cage though, it might have been fight distance. Hmm I don't really want to be involved in a cat fight though.

Interesting fact 7 – More on civet

Civet Cat Coffee is the rarest type of coffee in the world.

Oh and this female Malay Civet cat is the mother of the two male Malay Civet cats on display. These 2 males stay together with the Asian Palm civet cats which you can easily differentiate because the Malay Civet are usually on the ground while the Asian Palm Civet prefers to be on the tree. It is also this reason that the Malay Civet cage has to be closed so that the Asian Palm Civet will not bunk in with them haha.

Sidetrack, the Asian Palm Civet is famously known for its role of coffee. Both Kopi Luwak and Motit Coffee is coffee that is prepared with their faeces. These civet were fed with special diet. Guess is the same theory as the stick insect whose main diet is guava leaves and thus their faeces is nice smelling.

Conclusion

It was really fun to explore the night safari in the day. Plus the leopard trail has a wide variety of animals for me to visit and pat haha. I even caught sight of the flying squirrels cuddling in the nest. Clip (because his ear was clipped) opened his eyes the moment he heard me coming in haha. Wonder if I will ever recognise him the next time I see him though. But while I really had fun exploring the day safari, I guess it is still best the safari stays open at night.

African safari tour

My parents just came back from Cape Town and while watching their video, I heard the safari tour guide saying the collective word for zebras could be:
* A zeal of Zebra
* A herd of Zebra
* (And of course) A dazzle of zebra.. which is what the tour guide was using to describe that invoked me to research more.

A dazzle of zebra.. like this:

Was also talking about Giraffes being the "super model of the bush" because of their:
* sexy long legs
* graceful walk
* long eyelashes

Anyway because of them, I decided to pay the AA (African Adventure) station a visit. While I was happily taking the exhibits...

The cheetah suddenly came forward and showed me its back haha.

Oh what fascinates me is the coat.

Leopard

Cheetah - which is usually known as the fastest animal on earth. However their body temperature increases rapidly during a high-speed chase. Therefore, they must stop after running for about a minute or they will die from overheating. Geez, they are so hot-blooded.

King Cheetah.. I never knew there is this species. A spotted cheetah may be able to give birth to both king and spotted cubs.

The king cheetah is a rare mutation of cheetah characterized by a distinct pelt pattern. A recessive gene must be inherited from both parents in order for this pattern to appear- which is one reason why it is so rare.
- Source: Wiki

Panther - surprise! I bet you did not know that panther has spots haha. It is just too dark to be seen.

Seeing this ostrich reminds me of the JBP's Oscar.. and about the ostriches that my parents saw in Africa. Haha and the timing was great as he was trying to call its mate. See how blown up his neck is. The noise he make is a deep blowing sound.

More fun facts from here.
# The ostrich (Struthio camelus) is the largest bird living today.
# Ostriches are commercially farmed in the United States and many other countries. # Ostrich hide is made into fine leather and ostrich feathers are used for decoration and for cleaning materials.
# Ostriches are also valued for their red meat, which is often described as similar to beef, but with two-thirds less fat content.
# Although they cannot fly, ostriches can run at speeds of over 40 miles per hour. # An ostrich may run faster then a horse, but it can not run as far. After about half an hour it will slows down.
# Their powerful legs can deliver a formidable blow to predators.
# Ostriches do not stick their head in the sand, this is a myth. When an ostrich is cornered and has no other defense they will lay down on the ground, their head/neck will then blend in with the sand.

Oh and I caught the sloth "fighting" with the flying foxes haha. Notice its two toes, and the way its furs grow which is of different direction from the normal animals because sloth always hang itself upside down.

I also saw a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis. Have you ever wonder how a fat and chubby caterpillar crystalise its innards to become a pupa. I wonder if I can do the same too to metamorphis and become a butterfly? Hmm...

Oh and FF got a newcomer. Welcome Strawberry Hermit Crab (Coenobita perlatus)!

Native to the Indo-Pacific region, specifically Madagascar, Japan, and Australia and in other areas around the Red Sea and the Pacific. However, they have spread to other Atlantic regions because humans have brought them there.

These hermit crabs are noted for their bright red colouring and white granual markings. They can be 18 mm in length.

Juveniles are white with red antennae, but as they grow and molt, their orange and red colouring appears. During their younger years, they are more of a pale red or orange colour. As adults, they are very red. Their eyestalks are the same colour as their body and are thick. Their walking legs are thick and strong for climbing.- Source: Wiki

My friend was saying the land hermit crab has white spots on the reddish legs, just like strawberry skin haha.


After lunch, I happened to see keeper Tony & Andre at the Manatee feeding corner. Yupz it is also the manatee feeding times. So went to peek at the baby manatee. Geez it grown so big. Keeper Tony was once again asking me lots of questions e.g. if I remember the 4th R - Replant. I just realised it was about a year ago when I did my attachment with him. How time flies.

Then he was saying even though we are in front of the manatee, he can talk to me about other animals e.g. if ants can think, or whether orang utan, gorilla and chimpanzee, can we really determine who are the cleverest? He went on to tell us a story of a clever Malaysian orang utan who observed the construction workers daily and ended up knowing how to operate most of the tools when she escaped out of her cage one day. Actually sometimes I think it is unfair for human to observe and then measure the animals according to human's standards. Characteristics e.g. who is the cleverest, who is the fastest, who is the prettiest.. is very subjective. If every human has his/her talents, so do every animals right?

By the way, I am still unable to find the animal hospital he mentioned hmm...


LP was telling me this is a king fisher. I rarely see this colouring, interesting!


The interesting aspect about this white-handed gibbon is its thumb is so much lower than the index finger thus giving it a very long hand structure. Oh and I'm really impressed that NS wants to capture all the poses of these monkeys. As I told LP, they can really come up with a 365days-calendar of monkey. Would be very impressive!


I asked LP to show me the baby pygmy hippo.. so cute haha.
I ended my day with this last shot.. tired already. I think I have been visiting the zoo too often lately haha.

Zoolympics 2009

It is the annual zoolympics event once again and is the first time I participated in it.



Seeing the table of "goods", it isn't very hard to guess where I am stationed in right? None other than Rainforest Kidzworld Stables!


Pull-A-Sack
The aim of the game is to let you understand how much burden a horse can carry.

For over 4000 years, horses have been transporting people and their goods. Till "the age of the horse"ended in the early 1800s, horses were essential for agriculture work. Horses were also used to pull all kinds of vehicles, ranging from carriages, coal barges and even fire engines! Although modern machines have taken the place of the horse, we still measure the pulling power of an engine in "horsepower".

There are 3 types of burden for different ages. Although most of them are children, sometimes the child is too young so we will allow the parent to accompany the child to pull together. And once, there was this teenage guy who was playing just for fun. Haha.


While visiting the docent on duty in Rainforest Kidzworld, I asked him more about the rabbit and learnt that carrot is actually the rabbit's dessert. And dessert is taken only in small portion haha. So their main course is usually veggies. Hmm..


Cute hedgehog!!


Guess this is food for what animal?


The goats haha.

Overall, the event ended so-so. As it was the 2nd day, so I'm not very sure the total performance. Just hope the results were good.

Noon duty cum NS tour

Sadly I forgot to take photo of the special animal visitors on duty that day. We had the jungle nymph, banded bull frog and giant millipede. But I couldn't remember much about these exhibits and it was really a busy noonday that I had no time to remember my camera.

The eggs were asking a lot of questions e.g.
1) Does the male jungle nymph fly?
Yes, the adult male Jungle Nymph do fly. Like most of the Phasmids males, it is more of the gliding motion compared to actual flying.

2) What does the chilean rose tarantula feed on?
On Tarantula, the Chilean Rose, all the other species of tarantula in our collections are fed with 2 to 3 adult crickets every 10 days. So are the scorpions.

3) Are the flying foxes bred in the zoo?
Flying foxes have been in the zoo for a more than 21 years ago. Thus record keeping was not as updated compared to the last 15 years and is unknown if they were captured from the wild.

The current flying foxes are all captive bred. To prevent inbreeding, we
do introduce unrelated bats from other zoos and we sometime swap the
bats with the Night Safari collection.

Oh and I had a fun time in the Night Safari. This time, I toured on my own so can take my own sweet time to see the flying squirrel FLY!!! Okok, not fly, is glide. If only I can glide.

Red and white flying squirrel
(Petaurista alborufus)
白面鼯wú鼠
Can glide over a distance of up to 400m.

Sorry, but it was tough trying to catch it without flashlight plus I admit I'm a lousy photographer.  Hmm though it still hurts when CL said I alwaz produce blur photos onli.. :'(


Porcupine! I remember someone owe me an interesting pic of it.. gonna bug the photographer later.


Can you see the giraffe sleeping? Haha, and if you always wanted to know how does a giraffe sleeps, well you got your answer. They will sit down and sleep. And if you want a clear photo, follow this link.

SZ Tale 18

Latest addition: River Toad (Bufo asper)
The female of this species is impressive as it can grow up to 14cm.  Unlike other toads, both the young and adults do not wander through the forest but remain along the steam banks.

Crowd was low though, wondering is it because of H1N1 hmm...