A Visit to Sunway Lagoon...

[khiemtran]

Sunway Lagoon is a giant theme park located in an old tin-mining pit. As well as huge water play areas and amusement rides, there's also an impressive wildlife park.




Since Sunway Lagoon is also a water park, it's one of the few places you can view wild animals while walking around in your swimmers. And because it's also a theme park, it also offers the unique experience of viewing dangerous animals while hearing panic-filled screams in the background.

Way too hot to be wearing a fur coat today...



I'd like pretend I had to trek for days through the jungle to catch these guys...



I'm pretty sure this is a baboon, but I'm afraid I can't remember the sign.



OTOH, this is definitely a White Handed Gibbon. This guy also mooned some of the spectators.



This, meanwhile, would be a peacock.



And, have an otter...



The birds of prey exhibit was quite startling. These guys just sat on their poles in the open air, glancing around from time to time.





Mind you don't go kicking any logs in the jungle...



The Slow Loris, noted for curling up into balls as if frightened of spirits.



Sometimes we all have days like this...

Comments

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Great photos. There was an article in the news yesterday which stated that the slow loris is now becoming threatened in the wild because it is becoming an increasingly populat (though thoroughly unsuitable - surprise, surprise!) pet. And, of course, it never breeds in captivity:-(

So along with tigers and rhinos and elephants, the lorises are becoming popular for all the wrong reasons.

Oh, and was your baboon perhaps a mandrill? It seems to have blue face patches, and I suspect it probably had a multicoloured bottom which it was coyly concealing when you took the photo...

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

A mandrill! That sounds right! I had a half memory it wasn't a familar name and so there was this nagging doubt that it wasn't a baboon.