Feeding Semi-wild Animals

With Jason growing up here in Bandung, he had fond memories of visiting a place called “Taman Safari” as a child where he and his classmates wrestled freely with baby lions in the petting zoo (no joke, zero liability was a beautiful thing!) So for his graduation gift we decided to return & see if Jason could take on those same lions now grown-up . . . Now you have to pay a buck to take a picture with a chained tiger cub (commercialization is not a beautiful thing.) There’s a part of the park where animals roam freely and people ride around in vehicles. Here’s Jason giving a carrot away . . . the real question is, who’s the caged one here?!

This pigme hippo wasn’t picky – she’d eat it all! Weird thing about this little hippo was that she wasn’t just wet from the water she was in but had a slimy coat all over her body – ew!