Recently I was compelled to visit Taipei zoo to stay blameless of called as a pariah and at the same time I must admit that it also provided me with an opportunity to say that I could not have had a better topic than this to talk about. Later I will surely describe why I said so.
Well, on occasions of this kind, you got to have accompanied by many friends or soon to be friends with you to cover the glance of each creature expecting your visit from time immemorial. So we started off at around half an hour earlier than scheduled time to reach the bus-stop to our musing surprise that we were the first one to reach and rest of us are still taking rest at home. Also, as a matter of fact, it's worth mentioning that we targeted afternoon to be a good time to visit zoo as it was supposed to rain in the morning and rest of the day were supposed to be fine for the day, but Sun was all set to prove us wrong about our presumptions.
We reached zoo by bus at around 2 PM having some coveted and deserved fun with our group but tolerating despair and envy looks on the faces of co-passengers including driver in the bus. Flamingoes standing on one leg welcomed us in the zoo but before I forget to mention that we were picked up by a friend who was late by an hour from his original schedule and he was still smitten instead of snubbed as he had been to zoo earlier and supposed to guide us through treasures of zoo. Guide friend obliged us with his usual habits of exaggeration and started exhibiting not so long after we entered the premises with a fact about Flamingo's PINK color that it has been colored with red or pink in order to look beautiful but when checked with wikipedia it says in fact they are so due to their diets.
Never mind, Impressed with his instantaneous endeavor and general knowledge skills brought great recognition for this guide friend, however the facts produced had nothing to do with reality. Few of the bright and vivacious members of the group who knew a little know-how of browsing, brought a new name to this friend and soon he was known as Google Scholar in the group. Immediate excitement of this recognition and usual temperament of tests, trials, temptations, and toils due to earlier profession made him ready to come out with more "out of box" comments. One such comment was female of zebra not only follows the same period of pregnancy as that of Human beings but to our surprises, they also naturally follow the same average life as that of human beings. He was greatly endorsed and applauded by fellow zoo visitors. But then, now he became unstoppable!
Facts followed one after one and became countless from our so-called storehouse of facts untill the sun went down in flame on the far horizon. Some of the many eye-openers were an OWL of size around 4-5 feet. A fish worth millions kept in zoo was missed by everybody but could not hide itself from our guide friend and led to peculiarly liable misinterpretation of its worth. List goes on and on , believe me, I have barely touched some of the those factless facts. But his confidence to tell the same was still high, lofty yet noble at the same time. Amazing!!!
You would have come to realize that I am not going to talk about the specifics of the zoo, yet reached the end of my paragraph but rather acted as a critique of a guide who indirectly, had given me pleasure in the boring place. Let me tell you that I dont like zoo and never would have visited it if I was not scared of being outcasted by fellow Indian community here. All I would like to say to end this topic is you must visit zoo next time with a professional guide yet not absolutely mesmerized by their facts but also to enjoy even if you are a person who gets easily bore with walking among useless fripperies of a zoo.
