As we continued walking, we were lead to a mountainside with monkeys. Again, there were no fences, just a rope to show us the path. A mama monkey gathered food as her baby clung to her stomach. While some monkeys played tag across the rocks, others twirled on ropes.

The next exhibit was the enclosure with birds and small animals that you could hand feed and pet. It was mostly rabbits, hamsters, and squirrels. My two favorite animals were the crazy rabid squirrel and the sugar glider. It was kinda sad in a way; looking at the animals you could tell they had all been traumatized by overexposure to humans. Most were hiding in corners or at the bottom of the cage. At least they were well fed.

In the third enclosure we saw eagles and vultures. A zoo handler had a giant vulture on a branch posing to take pictures. We lined up to get next to it. It was almost as scary as the tigers! We got too close and it nipped at us.

Next were a few random animals. We saw a beaver, a lot of turtles, snakes, ostriches and kangaroos. The snakes weren't as scary as I would have thought. They were about 4 feet below us. What made it worse was the amount of snakes that were kept together! I did get to feed an ostrich an apple and that was fun! They are beautiful birds!

Next to the big cats, the monkeys were the biggest attraction. It was fun to watch all of them interact with each other. In one enclosure all the monkeys were chasing after one little monkey. It was too quick for the bigger ones to keep up. Several monkeys had found empty soda bottles that people had thrown in and were playing with them. It was sooo cute! An orangutan had two bottles, one in his mouth and another he held onto with his foot.

After seeing the alligators, I took a quick potty brake. It was a mistake. This is when I wished I could wear a diaper! Those brown spots are poop. While Bruce waited for me outside, a 10-year-old Chinese girl dropped her pants, squatted and, started peeing on the patio outside the woman's bathroom (just a few feet away from the men's room, and in plain sight of everyone). This is perfectly normal in China.

What would have been my dad's favorite part was the birds. We saw albino peacocks! There were nice looking finches (I think they were finches), and parrots.