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Night Safari in Singapore is one of the excursions the Flat Friends have been looking forward to since early in our voyage. This is a wildlife park full of animals that are active at night (nocturnal) and rest during the day. These are the animals we often hear about, but don’t get to see! We went in knowing we could NOT take photos with a flash, so we might not get many pictures, but we could still have a lot of fun! We started at the big red X, headed for the yellow trail, to the red trail, onto the orange trail, and barely had time for pink before the park closed at midnight. Five amazing hours with friends spotting as many animals as we could.
The Flat Friends, with a few fellow passengers, arrived at the Night Safari about 45 minutes before sunset. Given we were there to see animals that are active at night, our first stop was the “Creatures of the Night “ show.
Trainers brought a series of animals out on a big stage so we could see them fly, climb trees, leap—basically do what they are great at, it was like an animal talent show!
The amphitheater was darkened when the show started, but we got a few photos of the owls!
One Owl flew across the stage. We listened as carefully as we could, but he didn’t make a sound as he flew! That silence helps him surprise other animals in the wild!
The Eurasian Eagle-Owl turned its head 270 degrees! We would injure ourselves trying to turn our head like that!
Our goal at the Night Safari was to see as many animals as we could.
Our plan was to ride the tram once around the park after the show, then start walking the paths. Apparently a lot of people had the same idea. The tram line said there was a 25 minute wait, so instead of waiting we started walking. One of our four civet photos is of a common palm civet, the other three are the masked palm civet, can you spot which one is different?
The first thing the Flat Friends discovered was how many animals exist that we have never even heard of! The variety was so amazing. We saw similar but slightly different civets, the Binturong was fantastic to watch climb around the tree —he could lean down on his forepaws letting them take all his weight as he leaped between branches.
And we got a closer view of the Buffy Fish Owl.
