Third week done, two updates 2/2

Welcome back for part 2, the "Zoo". In did not want to criticize anything in Japan, but that one... come on!
So we went to the Yagiyama Zoological Park. As Sendai has a similar size to cologne I was expecting something similar for the Zoo... I was soooo wrong.

So let´s go through the Zoo:

There are three major area: left (with the entrance on the top), the middle (a hilltop) and the right area.

We started at the entrance, went through the left area, made a break on the hilltop (middle) and went on  into the right area. After that we went back to the entrance.

The Zoo was opened in 1965, and it still looks like that. Well, that's OK... but the standards for inmates, ahm I mean zoological subjects, have changed since then, right? Guess what, not here.... But see for yourself.

Penguins, that's the first thing you see when entering the zoo. So this extreme fast swimmers have a pool of 4m²... and not much else. Well, OK, I´m no expert,might be enough, lets go on.

Lamas

A peacock, spread you wings and.... better not fly, you might hurt yourself. Other birds hat way less space!

Japanese Panda, super cute. Lets put a tree in there... and a plastic cover that they don´t climb it.

Camels, one was totally bored and walked in circles, the whole day.

Japanese macaque actually where somewhat fine

 

 

 

Dramababy, the mother had some trouble with that one

That was the negative highlight. I love horses and that was a horror. Do you need to keep in such a bad shape in a zoo?

 

He was bagging for something at that door. His area was extremely small and parts of it with some trees even fenced by electric wire.

Same as for the peacock, better not try to fly.

Two Lions, one male, one female (not in the picture most obviously). Both dozing and bored by the little space they had to live in.

Same for the tiger... an animal that can jump 3m high... locked in a area that is smaller than many gardens.

Check out the mosaic in the background, tells you a lot about the 1960s perception about Shimpanses.

 

Reptiles (let´s not go into the revised definition here) also had very small boxes to live in.

 

That is not two times the same Hippo. They are on the two sides if the door. If they wanted to fight or were missing each other, I don´t know. But both had surely some kind of hospitalism.

The Zoo is on a hilltop and you can see the coast from here.

The Kangaroo, he seamed not as bored as many other animals in that Zoo.

So, in general I was astonished, they had a good variety of animals, but i would suggest to enhance the living conditions as there is no pleasure to see this beautiful animals living like this. Maybe I´m becoming an environmentalist and conservationist? Hell, I guess I´m already one! I think it´s good that way...