Sriracha Zoo

Saturday after troy got to sleep in a little bit we were off to the Sriracha Zoo. This was the first time I "got" to use the Thailand map (which is not in English). I have to say I think I did pretty well. We got there without one wrong turn! Mark that down in the record books. Once we got to the Sriracha Tiger Zoo we were on a dead run to see all of the shows. First we saw the Elephant show. The elephants played basketball, walked on tightropes, used a hula hoop, did some dancing, walked like humans, and gave a girl audience member a massage, and a boy audience member a "massage". It was really entertaining. We also feed the elephants. If you wanted to tip the elephant for doing a good job they would take the money with their trunk and hand it to the trainer then bow. The cool thing was that they could actually tell between the bananas and the money so they never ate any cash! We tested this! Next we were off to the Crocodile Show. Here they put their heads into the crocs mouth, which was neat. Otherwise the crocodiles don't do many tricks besides opening and closing their mouth. Next we were off to the Circus show which is like every other tiger circus shows you will ever see. The tigers jumped through hopes, over each other and then the always nail biting jumping at the trainer "oh my he must be scared!" Then for the finally of shows we saw some pigs doing math calculations and then the finally of a pig race. The math part made you think some because the audience got to pick whatever we wanted to the pig to answer in +, -. /. No multiplication though. They always got the correct answer, I never could figure that trick out. Oh yeah there was this scorpion queen there. She just stands there but with hundreds of scorpions on here body, it was a little freaky- didn't take a picture of her because i didn't want to startle the scorpions!

After we saw all the shows we walked around to see all the animals. We got to see some newborn baby cubs, iguanas, camels, snakes (not Troy's favorite part), elephants, while spotted dear, crocodiles, the "happy family" and of course many tigers. They had two educational centers there that taught about how they breed the crocodiles. Here is a useful fact for all you nerds, did you know that you could produce girl or boy crocs merely but the set room temperature! So the egg is neutral until you pick a temperature. So if the temp is less than 20 or greater than 32 degree (Celsius here) it's a boy and if its 21-31 degrees in the room it's a girl. Strange huh! Then there was my favorite part the tiger education center. Here is another random fact for you. They let pigs do the nursing to the tiger cubs because that makes the tigers tamer and it increases the size of the cub faster. They also have the cubs play with pigs and golden retrievers to increase their tameness. You can actually play with the baby tigers. So now I can say I actually have been bitten by a tiger (it was maybe a 40lb one though). They paws were as big as my hand; we obviously took a couple pictures with the little guy. And then there was the orangutans! They were so cute, both could ride tricycles. One even gave me a ride; it probably was a future scam, notice how it's "accidentally chewing" on my ring! LOL