点评:Needed to “waste” time before a late flight and opted for a trip to the zoo.
It was a big zoo with good well laid out paths. The planting was lovely & we appreciated the labelling of trees etc. it was immaculately kept.
Whilst majority of the animal enclosures seemed ok it was noticeable that some herd animals e.g. grevys zebra & sable were kept as a solo animals which was sad to see.
Also a couple of the carnivores seemed bored/distressed and were pacing along their fence lines (black bear & jaguar), personally I found this distressing and felt these creatures did not deserve to be be confined in a zoo.
The painted dogs, which need to run, had a very confined space. I was saddened to see a cheetah in a very small enclosure.
Overall there seemed to be more effort/attention focused on children’s interaction (which looked great with water pads, rope bridges etc) than on some of the animal environments.
I’m glad I was an overseas visitor and that this was not my local zoo, in my opinion European zoos I have visited are better in terms of animal environments.
翻译:在航班延误前,我需要“消磨”一下时间,于是决定去动物园逛逛。
动物园很大,步道布局合理。植物很漂亮,我们很欣赏树木的标识等等,动物园维护得一尘不染。
虽然大多数动物围栏看起来还不错,但值得注意的是,一些群居动物,例如格氏斑马和黑貂,是单独饲养的,这让人感到难过。
还有一些食肉动物(黑熊和美洲虎)似乎感到无聊/沮丧,沿着围栏走来走去。我个人觉得这很令人心痛,觉得这些动物不应该被关在动物园里。
需要奔跑的非洲野犬的活动空间非常狭窄。看到猎豹被关在一个非常狭小的围栏里,我感到很难过。
总的来说,动物园似乎在儿童互动方面投入了更多精力/注意力(比如水垫、绳索桥等,看起来很棒),而不是在某些动物环境方面。
我很庆幸自己是一名海外游客,而且这不是我当地的动物园,在我看来,我去过的欧洲动物园的动物环境都更好。