Some people asked me why am I go to zoos so many times.
My answer is: the goal to go to a zoo is not for watching animals,
but for watching and observing what animals are doing.
有人問我為什麼這麼愛去動物園
不都看過了嗎？
我必須說，去動物園的重點不是看動物
而是看動物在做什麼
Taipei Zoo is the largest zoo in Asia,
not only for its size, but also for its plentiful collection of Asia animals.
To visit Taipei Zoo, take the MRT to Taipei Zoo station,
then follow the direction to the Zoo gate.
Taipei zoo is built on a hill, all the way up to the top,
so I recommend you to take the zoo shuttle to the top of the zoo,
then walk down toward the gate to visit animals. Noticed that
the zoo is quite big that you may not be able to visit them all.
During peek time like holiday,
you may need to claim a ticket for Giant Panda House,
however, it's not necessary to have a ticket to visit it when there is no crowd,
especially before 10 am and after 4 pm.
For more information, visit the official website.
Next to the shuttle train station is the Koala House.
It's not easy to watch Koalas awake, they spent most of their life on sleep,
up to 20 hours a day. When they are awake, they must be eating.
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To make some effort of conservation
and to provide correct knowledge
Here I provide the conservation status defined by
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
from extinct to not in danger:
Extinct EX
Extinct in the wild EW
Critically Endangered CR
Endangered EN
Vulnerable VU
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Once you arrived the Bird world station, you can start from the Penguin house.
Aldabra giant tortoise
The Amphibian and Reptile House exhibits plenty of land tortoises, snakes, frogs and lizards,
most of them are from Asia and Africa.
A tortoise running as fast as tortoise.
A curious Green Iguana
A Burmese star tortoise smells at other's .... eww!
When visiting the Amphibian and Reptile House,
do not miss the Moltrechti's green tree frog, a endemic specie of Taiwan.
Racoons
The Taipei zoo collects 3 types of Lemurs.
Go watch those cuties playing around!
3 Common brown lemurs lining up
Ring-tailed lemur
A lazy Black-and-white ruffed lemur
Lemurs climbing on a door
Scratch each other
A 5 months old White rhinoceros
Gorilla
Alpaca at the Children's Zoo.
Once you walk down to the gate, on the right side of the gate
is Formosan Animal Area,
where you can watch endemic species of Taiwan, including
Formosan black bear, a kind of black bear with white V-shaped mark on its chest;
Formosan clouded leopard, an extinct specie, the one in the zoo is from Southern-east Asia
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