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zoo polar bear, pet health and welfare educational for animal lovers,
excerpts from The
Glamorous Vets, Singapore, sponsored by AsiaHomes Internet.
Last Updated: 07 January, 2002 Last
Thursday's thunderstorm brought down a few big trees and caused traffic
snarls but today was a bright and sunny Sunday. A good time to
appreciate nature and the wild life at the Singapore Zoological Gardens if
you had very small children. Mine were big and going to the Zoo more than once a year was one too many times. Given the choice, they would prefer a late Saturday night watching television and surfing and waking up late on Sunday mornings. Probably that would be what most Singaporean teenagers do. Animal shows become boring to them after one viewing. An earthworm-like creature crossed the concrete pathway exiting from the Polar Bear den where the bears were swimming on schedule, as if they were warming up for the show. Initially, I thought it was an adult earthworm but it was not that sluggish like the earthworm. I tried to photograph it but my camera had no close up facilities. Should we leave the snake alone? It might be trampled over by passers by. One Indian couple with a baby in the pram avoided it. I picked up several small branches as I looked at the snake. "Excuse me," said the Indian mother loudly in my direction. She left abruptly after saying that, so I did not know what she wanted to say. She might have thought that I would kill the snake. Actually I wanted to catch the snake and flip it onto the cool bushes where it should be. This was one of those rare occasions where I could teach my two pre-teen sons not to kill wild life. "Snakes with bright red ring strips, 2 bright orange elliptical ends which may be the tails, a white and black zebra underside are poisonous," I said to my two sons with an air of authority on snakes. "Colourful snakes are not poisonous," my wife corrected me. "The poisonous ones are rather dull in colour." Who is right? I guess I need to do more research before making any more pronouncements on venomous snakes.  Bringing teenagers to the
Zoo more than once a year require persistence. If they can be
interested in digital photography, they can pick up a good skills learning
the finer points of animal photography. The child learns more about
technology as well when they practise digital photography. Maybe, he
or she can be a photo journalist or a film producer if the parents have
had introduced the child at a young age to photography.Adults may be fed up with the same Kentucky Fried Chicken's breakfast, but if the parents look beyond the cuisine at the tremendous opportunity for the family members to bond once a week or a month, breakfast at the Zoo will be good for the children. Breakfast with the orang utans is too expensive and therefore, the KFC is the sole choice.  It
will be an innovative Zoo that knows how to attract,
entertain and educate the Singapore teenagers less than sixteen years old so that they look forward to
visiting the Zoo more than once a year. The target customers seem to be parents with small children and tourists with small children too. How about the pre-teens? |