zoo negara since 1963

so we went to zoo negara (national zoo)! it was such a beautiful day, sunny but not too hot. we packed tuna sandwiches as lunch and made our way to ampang. in all my 21 years of life i have never been to zoo negara, and i call myself a malaysian. heh

anyways, there was so much to see! siamangs, baboons with their butt exposed, an attention-seeking chimpanzee that poses for the camera, obese orang utan looking like it's paralyzed, hornbills, cute little leopard cat sleeping, sleeping sun bears, baby cougar, adult cougars, sleeping cheetah, black swans, white swans, storks, flamingos, elephants that throw sand and water at people, cuddly fuzzly rabbits, a quite unhappy-looking pony with very coarse mane, beautiful zebras, galloping antelopes, ostriches that ran helter-skelter when chased (scaredy-cats), graceful giraffes, and phenomenally pretty butterflies!

so, let these pictures portray our very nature-friendly and healthy day-out.

i like this accidental out-of-focus effect, it makes the picture look so much more romantic

some of my favourite shots from butterfly garden;

black swans are so rare! i like them, they look cooler and more exotic than their white counterparts

isnt this giraffe elegant and graceful? it's a Him. he was coming over to protect his child as one visitor tried to feed it grass. good parent.

siamang!

these storks actually got closer to me than this distance, but some nuisance of a kid came and shooed them away.

and with that our visit to zoo negara ended, with a very amusing multi animal performance show. the show was quite entertaining and i liked the african sea lion, dombi in particular, such a character! but if they presented it in english instead of malay, it would be perfect cuz there were foreigners who just looked lost.

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