Night Safari Adventure

In a recent visit to the Night Safari in Singapore, my friend and I were in time for a live performance by animals, and we went to the amphitheatre to see it. Typical of outdoor amphitheatres, there are no chairs, and the sitting area is simply constructed in sections of steps so that the audience sits on the floor or the stairway tread, with the heels in contact with the tread one step below.

We saw animals that make an appearance and didn’t do much, and the animals that could show some tricks are of course the monkeys.

At one point of the show, the trainers needed to look for their lost animals. The audience had no ideas what they were searching for. The trainers claimed that they heard the animals among the audience. They tried one corner, and then they looked at another section. After hitting the wrong spots three or four times, they at last decided that the animal was hiding near where my friend and I were sitting. The few of us sitting in the same row were requested to stand up and moved aside. Right at the area where my friend and I had placed our feet when we were seated, was a door. The animal trainers pulled open the door, and, lo and behold, they took an enormous snake out from the open space below. I don’t know what kind of a snake that it. The snake was carried up the stage and became the next star of the show.