The Ranting Jamaican is now pissed that there are no Red Vines AND no Good & Plenty or any other kind of black licorice on this island called Taiwan (formerly Formosa). But You know what? I just spent $30 bucks for three one pound bags of Red Vines so in 10-14 business days I will have an ample supply which will probably last about a week. I am SO EXCITED for the terminator movie and I will be chomping down on these Red Vines while I watch it, if they ever get here. Anyways that is unimportant! The subject at hand is the Taipei Zoo!
Oh my lord the Taipei Zoo was amazing they had all kinds of monkeys, chimpanzees, flamingos, Lions, Tigers, Ligers (haha just kidding no Ligers), Emus, Arowanas (That’s A fish), Owls, Zebras, and random other animals. The one animal I left out was the GORILLAs!!!!! they deserve separate mention because they are friggin amazing and I want to be the 800lb Gorilla in the room when I grow up!
Anyways the animals were great and majestic and whatever but the best part of this zoo is what is the best part of Taiwan in general. When you go to the zoo everything is interspersed with the Taiwanese Jungle. It’s not like the LA zoo where it looks all fake and crappy and there are a bunch of freeways and smog all around it. You actually feel like you are in the jungle as the picture below illustrates.
Taipei is really built up so you can’t see the large tropical looking trees in the city except in a few parks but in the outskirts of the city and especially in places like Keelung you can really see how much wild terrain is left here. but yes back to the zoo!
I was pretty much dissappointed by the Panda’s they were REALLY boring here is what they were doing!
I was very dissappointed in these panda’s. They really really let me down. but after the boring boring panda’s the fun started with the nocturnal animals. It sucked though because it was too dark to take pictures. But I have never let something like a lack of light stop me! here is a picture from the nocturnal animals exhibit.
The zoo was great and as I said the best part were the gorilla’s! and I got a picture of them too (although it is a crappy one)
But yes the Taipei Zoo (which is actually outside of Taipei) is a very nice zoo indeed. Hopefully I will get a chance to compare it to the San Diego Zoo some time (if Swine Flu allows haha). oh! one last picture!
- haha. this was one of the nocturnal animals. You gotta love that one.
In Summary, I loved that zoo, I am still pissed that there are no Red Vines in Taiwan, and I want my next pet to be a Formosa Weasel. Peace out Ya’ll.
zip it up and zip it out!