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A large portion of the Taipei Zoo's birds are housed in an area of the zoo called Bird World. A good chunk of it was closed for renovation when I went there, and it has reportedly been that way for a couple of years now.
Of the exhibits I did get to see, here's one with a marabou stork, a large stork that feeds mostly on carrion but will eat live prey when it can catch them and is allegedly capable of killing children.
A white stork.
A heavily obscured toco toucan. Trust me, it's there!
A somewhat obscured Victoria crowned pigeon.
A gray junglefowl.
A really blurry photo of a jungle crow, no thanks to the wire mesh getting in the way. I've gotten slightly better at photographing through mesh, as will be shown in some of my more recent zoo trips.
A bird of paradise. Though I have vague recollections of seeing some on my first trip to the San Diego Zoo, I can't remember having seen any since, so this was a pleasant surprise.
Some flamingos.
A hooded crane.
A sarus crane.
A white-naped crane. Having all those cranes standing with their beaks quite close to eye level was a little unnerving to say the least.
There was a small indoors area with viewing windows for the theropods' answer to monkeys (i.e.: dinosauroidsparrots). These are blue and gold macaws.
I think this is a military macaw.
A green-winged macaw.
Some palm cockatoos. During courtship, males of this species make drumming noises by beating sticks against dead trees.
Going deeper into the Taipei Zoo, one passes a small desert animal section (as in the section itself is small, not that it displays small desert animals).
Here's an addax.
Both species of extant camels also get representation in adjacent exhibits.
And... that's all there is to it. Told you it was small. Behind it was an Australian animal section, but I didn't go there on my visit because it appeared to have only old standbys such as gray kangaroos, emus, and cassowaries, which are interesting enough animals but not exactly rare sights in zoos. Ironically, if I had visited the Australian area this post might actually have some maniraptors.
Continuing on, the zoo's section on African animals begins. These are plains zebras.
Some gemsbok and eland. Both are quite large and powerful antelope, and their enclosure was accompanied by signs warning visitors not to get too close.
Also present in their exhibit was this mountain zebra. The zoo has all three species of extant zebra, but sadly I didn't get good photos of the Grevy's.
Hippos were kept in a really deep moat surrounding an elevated "island" that originally displayed pygmy hippos. Contemplating the possibility of falling into the moat onto hard concrete, surrounded by dozens of hippos, was not pleasant, but at least the design should keep the hippos well confined under normal circumstances. While the exhibit was not especially small in and out of itself, there were so many hippos in there that it felt quite overcrowded.
Some African spurred tortoises.
A lioness playing with a ball. I realize the "playing with a ball" part is kind of hard to tell from my photo, so you'll just have to take my word for it.
A white rhino.
Some bongo.
A patas monkey.
A gorilla.
Some chimpanzees.
Some Barbary sheep.
An olive baboon.
A ruffed lemur. The zoo houses these alongside ring-tailed lemurs and brown lemurs. Don't be fooled by the seemingly drab concrete enclosure; the lemurs have a very large exhibit that has both indoors and outdoors viewing opportunities. The concrete area is just the indoors portion of the display, while the outdoors portion is a large, well-vegetated dome with a netted walkway going through it. I didn't manage to get photos of the outdoors area, so this doesn't do any justice to it.
The area just outside the nocturnal house at the Taipei Zoo is centered around Asian tropical rainforest animals.
So what is a pygmy hippo doing here? Turns out their exhibit was being renovated when I visited, so they'd been temporarily moved to this area.
A crab-eating mongoose in its hideout.
Two macaque species were exhibited next to each other on "monkey island" style exhibits. This one is a pig-tailed macaque.
And I think here's a crab-eating macaque.
A sacred ibis, which I think is actually from Africa. Didn't see an excuse for this one.
Some Nicobar pigeons.
An orangutan.
A Malayan tapir.
The tapir shared its exhibit with muntjac and black swans (the latter are from Australia, not Asia).
A python.
A leopard.
A sun bear. The smallest of all living bears, but reportedly quite aggressive.
Some Asian elephants.
A great Indian hornbill. Quite a magnificent theropod.
A tomistoma or false gharial. My first tomistoma! Unlike true gharials, tomistoma are known to prey on fairly large animals, including deer and humans.
Aunk's commentary: this is a real good basic look at what is useful in IOS 6. I found some things I started using right away and I am sure you will find some too. E.G. 04 Calls – Slide to answer a call or slide up to reply with a message & remind you to call back later.
17 Personal Dictionary in the Cloud – sync personalized spellings and autocorrections of names across iPhone and iPad. 18 Do Not Disturb - Set the iPhone to prevent calls and notifications from waking you at night, but still allow special callers.
39 Find my friends arrive/leave notifications: I can be alerted when your children get to school or leave school.
"Most of the year, I'm an Android user. My personal phone is an Android device, as are most of the gadgets around here. But for about two months each year, I'm an iPhone and iPad tester, and that's when I get horribly envious. You see, it's the apps. Especially the games.
After four years of intense competition, the quality and availability of leading third-party iPhone apps still beats Android, even though Android phones have much greater market share. We've seen it in study after study: more people own Android phones, but developers prefer iOS. Apple's phones are easier to develop for, with less fragmentation, less piracy, and a higher rate of developers getting paid for their efforts."
Aunk's Commentary: We all know that the best developers write for Iphon/Ipad first. When the Ipad made the genius move of putting a quad graphics processor in the Ipad this was another mark of the Job's A Team understanding how to attract and keep the best developers.
The best keep secret in the smart phone wars in the post PC world is that "it's the Apps stupid". So it is most interesting to hear a member of the Droid tribe honestly talk about the app realities that everyone interested in buying an interpersonal computer (IPC) should know.
The thing I use my Iphone for the least is as a phone. Like in the PC Wars, people buy things because of price and apps. The same is true in the IPC wars its the killer app that captures the long term consumer.
Independent tests drop, drown and pound the two phones and one clearly fails. Guess which one? Come see this thriller in Manila, rumble in the computer jungle.
Hint, one is glass and metal and the other is plastic. Most of the droids are boat anchors 6 months after they are bought because the customer can't get the latest operating system (OS). Now we know that new apps need the new OS right, oh, sorry. The Iphone 3GS is the oldest cellphone running a manufactures current OS. very few installed base droids can run jelly bean Androids latest OS (is that not a jack ass of a name for an operating system). Ice cream sandwich (no number so you can keep track of their failures #v32?) or older is running on the droid installed base. But S3 is the closest Droid Iphone clone to the 5 so let's see what they got.
Lets Go To The Video Tape:
Iphone is the gold standard in Interpersonal computer (IPC) quality in this post PC world. The underwater test was most telling IMHO. Now for the InfoGraphic and the number one problem with the Samsung's fake you out ad that try's in vain to stop the million unit a day Iphone 5 sales launch.
Jobs and the A Team revolutionized the Movie industry, Music industry, phone industry, software industry with the app store. The Tablet industry that did not exist, the game industry, the camera industry and the retail industry just to name a few.
Please name the Steve Job's visionary in the Droid clone tribe?
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I rest my case!
Watch Apple’s First iPhone 5 TV Ads and compare against the Samsung Ad, Notice that there is on one single spec. Developers and gadgeter's like me care about specifications consumers do not. It is clear that Apple with the highest customer satisfaction ratings in the industry understands this and the droid tribe does not.
Bottom line is that 3 years from now everyone will remember this historic Iphone 5 and almost no one will remember the Sam 3 something. When the Ipad mini come to market next mount the 3 will be not just stuck below 5 but it will be neither fish nor fowl. It will be to small to be an Ipad mini and to big to be a phone.
Yes, it does take a genius, that is why Apple's customers have made it the highest financially valuated computer company in the history of the world bigger then IBM and Microsoft.
If you go into a store to buy an Iphone, don't let some fast talking salesman talk you into a flimsy droid because he makes more commission from the cheap droids.
Yes, I am a biased Iphone tribe member, I had an Iphone before there was and Iphone, what did I have?
Romney has said that his company Bain did not do outsourcing under his leadership as CEO, chairman and only stock holder. Fact check, not true, watch and listen to Mitt Romney in his own words, when he thought he was speaking only to his fellow 1%'ers (Leaked Video)
Romney says, before he was the Republican Presidential candidate he had business experience creating jobs and this is why we the American people should elect him. The question is creating jobs where?
Let's Go To The Video Tape
The Cultural Anti-humanists use to be able to get away with lying to the public. But the Ayn Rand self interest first Second Hander's ( no vision or integrity) like Romney forgot about the internet. We masses are not asses and we will not elect a lying sack of !@#$$.
The fact is, according to Romney himself, not only did Bain outsource but he went over to China to see the outsourced jobs himself personally. Thank providence that as Romney and his 1% friends met in secret, there was a 99%'er like me with a cell phone that had a video camera.
It is interesting to note that during the time of America's original sin there were Cultural Terrorists like Romney who enslaved free labor in concentration champs ("Plantations") here in America. But there were also laborers then who had to wait on the tables of the rich, who listened carefully to the enslaver's and got the word out from behind enemy lines.
Let a word to the wise be sufficient.
The President said it best, I do not want to be the Outsources in Chief.
Elect NO Republican for 100 years, starting in NOvember!
The people know who created JOBS and who is Blocking JOBS. Infographic and Video. The Republican Teabag congressin two years has passed five hundred bills (not a typeO) on abortion and Zero creating JOBS.
IMHO, the best Dem election strategy is just let Romney (i.e. Bush/Palin Clone) keep talking and just correct his mistakes. Even Republicans are figuring out that Mitt, corporations are people, Romney is a second hander (no vision, no integrity).
The headline should be Mr. Hunt fires positive Homeopathy shot heard around the world. The Medical Industrial Complex (MediPlex) is shaking in its allopathy only boots.
