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Going to the zoo is a favourite of mine, and my daughter Jing-Joe.

Now they have two added attractions, an African show, which was pretty good fun, and KANGAROOS!

So - while I'd planned on taking the family, my son Jimmie was crabby this morning, after staying up all night sucking on tit (I know the feeling). I thought a Daughter and Daddy day would be good for everyone.

Jing-Joe and I went there about 11 and didn't get home till about 3, a damn good 4 hours.

For the casual visitor, and I saw a number of them, the zoo is getting better, and not quite as sad as it used to be compared to Singapore zoo etc.

The Hippos in particular have a glass wall, and it's very cute to see mum and baby boy swimming around up against the glass.

The monkeys have got new enclosures, as have the orangutan.

The Lion is still next to the cheetah, and they spend the time staring and occassionally running at each other, kinda psycho but fun.

The black leopard was up on the very top of the cage - 10 metres from the ground, staring over the wall at traffic. They have the wiring horizontal at the top, otherwise he'd be FREE!

However the best thing today was the normal show, not the "African Boys Show".

I've seen this show 10 times at least, and have always been impressed by it; it is up there with other zoos as a funny show.

This time however it was, well . . Thai.

The show starts with some animal that's a cross between a cat and a bear, as big as a black bear, walking along a log, and then dangling upside down while the host feeds it.

Then the log snapped!

Bear creature falls on its head, and being 3 feet away in the front row I am a tad worried, however it rights itself, and looks up to host for more food.

However, this normally ends with said bear-creature walking back along the the log, which it can't do now.

Five minutes was spent trying to hustle bear creature out the back. At one stage a bird walks out, I think the next act, only to be caught and brought back in.

The next act is the same bird, a huge blue parrot, walking out, and up a ladder to a flying fox.

Half way up the ladder bird stops. Obviously thinking, "Hmm, safety is crap here, what if the ladder breaks?"

The trainer comes out to urge the bird up the ladder; the bird looks at the trainer, "Aren't you the bloke who said that log was safe?"

After another five minutes the bird finally climbs up and goes down to the flying fox.

Next is a hornbill.

The Hornbill normally flies around the audience, this time, however, he flies around, BUT refuses to come came back to trainer!

Why? Well, the hornbill normally stops on the same log that is now matchsticks.

He decides to sit in a tree and watch what happens next.

Which makes the next act, two parrots racing each other, very nervous as they keep looking up at the hornbill in the tree thinking, "Do hornbills eat parrots?"

I have no idea, but it was a damn fun day at the zoo!