Taman Safari
Taman Safari | |
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File:Taman Safari Indonesia Logo.jpg | |
6°43′13″S 106°57′02″E / 6.7203156°S 106.9505096°E | |
Date opened | March 16, 1990 (Taman Safari I)[1] |
Location | Bogor, West Java, Indonesia |
No. of animals | 2500 |
Memberships | WAZA,[2] SEAZA,[3] CBSG, and PKBSI |
Website | www.tamansafari.com |
Taman Safari Indonesia or simply Taman Safari are animal theme parks in Bogor, West Java, Mount Pangrango, East Java, and Bali Safari and Marine Park, Bali. Being part of the same organization, they are known as Taman Safari I, II and III. The most popular is Taman Safari I.[4]
Taman Safari I
Taman Safari I, or called as Taman Safari Bogor, is located at district Cisarua, on Bogor regency, on he old main road between Jakarta and Bandung, West Java. It is roughly 80 kilometres (50 mi) from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Jakarta and 78 kilometres (48 mi) from Bandung. Taman Safari is located on Puncak, a tourist area in West Java.
History
Taman Safari I covers an area of 170 hectares (420 acres)[5] and houses a collection of 2,500 animals, including Bengal tigers, Malayan sun bears, giraffes, orangutans, hippos, zebras, and Sumatran elephants. Some, such as the Bali myna, are involved in conservation projects. The majority of the species represented are Indonesian.
Taman Safari I is built on 1980 on 50 hectare of unproductive plantation land. On 1990, the park is named as the National Tourism Object by Soesilo Soedarman, the Minister of Tourism, Postal, and Telecommunication at that time.
Animals
Safari Journey
Visitors are encouraged to drive through the park and it is possible to come within touching distance of most of the animals. Some areas allow for guests to feed animals from their cars. Guests are not allowed to feed carnivores, and the area that showcase carnivores such as tigers and lions are monitored by the warden. Guests are not allowed to step out from the car. Guests that didn't own cars may see the safari areas from buses that are run on schedule. Sometimes, many wild Crab-eating macaque, Plantain squirrel and birds can be seen roaming the Safari area.
- Greater flamingo
- Sumatran elephant
- Bawean deer
- Javan muntjac
- Malayan tapir
- Ankole-Watusi
- Hippopotamus
- Dromedary camel
- Bactrian camel (Normal and albino individuals)
- Grey crowned crane
- Blackbuck
- Spotted deer
- Javan rusa
- Sambar deer
- Malayan sun bear
- Lesser adjutant
- Siamang
- Sitatunga
- African leopard (Normal and black individuals)
- Cougar
- Binturong
- Sumatran porcupine
- Buffy fish owl
- Barred eagle owl
- White bellied sea eagle
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Pygmy hippo
- Chapman's zebra
- Common eland
- Nubian giraffe
- Red lechwe
- Northern cassowary
- Lowland anoa
- European bison
- North Sulawesi babirusa
- Nubian lion
- Bengal tiger (Normal and albino individuals)
- White rhinoceros
- Nyala
- Grant's zebra
- Blue wildebeest
- Common ostrich
- Barbary sheep
- Defassa waterbuck
- Saltwater crocodile
- Sumatran tiger
- Brown bear
- Emu
- Impala
- Nilgai
- Llama
- Dusky pademelon
- Banteng
- Bornean orangutan
- Scimitar oryx
- Capybara
Animal rides
Jurassic Train (all animatronics and/or statues)
During the ride, the iconic main theme from Jurassic Park plays inside the cave where the dinosaur statues and animatronics are housed.
- Tyrannosaurus rex
- Gorgosaurus
- Velociraptor
- Oviraptor
- Brachiosaurus
- Triceratops
- Euoplocephalus
- Talarurus
- Stegosaurus
- Pterodactylus
- Woolly mammoth
- Neanderthal
- Shonisaurus (fossil replica)
- Liopleurodon (fossil replica)
- Xiphactinus (fossil replica)
Bird aviaries
- Helmeted guineafowl
- Red junglefowl
- Australian pelican
- Magpie goose
- Black necked swan
- Black swan
- Purple heron
- Red lory
- Chattering lory
- Black-capped lory
- Eclectus parrot
- Bali myna
- Lesser bird of paradise
- Twelve-wired bird of paradise
- Red bird of paradise
- Australasian swamphen
- Pied imperial pigeon
- Buffy fish owl
- Little black cormorant
- Great argus
- Javan peafowl
- Large flying fox
- Goffin's cockatoo
- Yellow-crested cockatoo
- Salmon-crested cockatoo
- Wreathed hornbill
- Papuan hornbill
- Rhinoceros hornbill
Baby zoo
For a small fee, visitors can take a photo with baby animals, snake, or birds. The exhibit also include some rare animals.
- Bali myna
- Pagai Island macaque
- Sunda porcupine
- Pygmy hippo
- Sumatran orangutan
- White tiger
- White lion
- Asian small-clawed otter (Gading and Lady)
- Serval (two male individuals named Marco and Mario, two female individuals named Dominique and Milica)
Australia outback and Big Cat center
- Eastern grey kangaroo
- Palm cockatoo
- Ring tailed lemur
- Black and white ruffed lemur
- Javan leopard (Normal and black individual)
- Jaguar (Normal and black individual, named Oscar and Bolivina)
- Cougar
- Caracal
- Asian golden cat
Recreation area bird photo booth
Rimba Food Court Aquarium
- Red devil cichlid
- Bala shark
- Tinfoil barb
- Electric yellow cichlid
- Iridescent shark
- Featherfin squeaker
- Sailfin pleco
Safari Waterpark
Aside from a slides and pools, there is several exhibits in the Waterpark
Sea Lion show
Bird of Prey
- Brahminy kite
- White bellied sea eagle
- Crested serpent eagle
- Javan hawk eagle
- Buffy fish owl
- Barred eagle owl
Crocodile Village
- Saltwater crocodile (one fat individual named Kojek, housed alone in a separate exhibit)
Binturong exhibit
- Binturong (Sumatran and Javan subspecies)
- Sunda porcupine
Komodo Dragon Island
- Komodo dragon (Young individuals in separate exhibit)
- Reticulated python
- Corn snake
- Indian star tortoise
Kampung Papua (Papua village)
- Southern cassowary
- Amboina box turtle
- Red-bellied short-necked turtle
- Alligator snapping turtle
- Wreathed hornbill
- Australasian swamphen
- Palm cockatoo
- Grizzled tree kangaroo
- Agile wallaby
- Dusky pademelon
- four-toed hedgehog
- Sugar glider
Penguin House
The zoo used to exhibit two polar bears delivered from Adelaide Zoo after a breeding program. However, one of the polar bears died in 2004 while another died in 2005, both due to old age. The exhibit is now used as a Humboldt penguin exhibit, the polar bears can be seen as a taxidermy in the exhibit.
Primate Center
- Sumatran orangutan
- Agile gibbon
- Kloss's gibbon
- Siamang
- Bornean orangutan (One male individual name John)
- Chimpanzee
Leaf-eating monkey exhibits
- East Javan langur
- West Javan langur
- Javan surili
- Sumatran Surili
- Sulawesi crested macaque
- Proboscis monkey
Reptile Tunnel and Nocturnal Fauna (Including Freshwater Aquarium)
- King cobra
- Burmese python (albino)
- Reticulated python (One tiger morph individual in separate exhibit)
- Yellow anaconda
- Amboina sailfin lizard
- Argus monitor
- Argentine black and white tegu
- Indonesian blue-tongued skink
- Malayan pit viper
- Javan spitting cobra (One albino individual in separate exhibit)
- California kingsnake
- Corn snake
- Milk snake (Albino)
- Malayan krait
- Boa constrictor
- Spectacled caiman
- Water python
- Papuan olive python
- D'Albertis python
- Ball python
- Green tree python
- Green Iguana
- Green tree monitor
- Indian star tortoise
- Arapaima
- Redtail catfish
- Tambaqui
- Alligator gar
- Red eared slider
- Malaysian giant turtle
- Sulawesi dwarf cuscus
- Red giant flying squirrel
- Large flying fox
- Barn owl
- Sugar glider
- Four-toed hedgehog (Albino)
- Golden wet-zone palm civet
- Asian palm civet
Tortoise exhibit
African Village
Anjungan Kalimantan (Borneo house)
Anjungan Jepang (Japan house)
- Koi
- Japanese macaque (Group leader named Tomo)
Dolphin show
Wild Wild West
Panda Kingdom
- Donkey
- Bactrian camel
- Large bamboo rat
- Golden pheasant
- Red panda
- Mute swan
- Purple heron
- Blue peafowl
- Mishmi takin
- Giant panda (Cai Tao and Hu Chun)
Royal Safari Garden
Besides Safari Lodge, Royal Safari Garden is a hotel that linked to Taman Safari I. Most of the hotel animals came from Taman Safari, but the hotel also have animals that which Taman Safari didn't owned and formerly owned.
- Grass carp
- Alligator gar (Leucistic individuals)
- Indonesian tigerfish
- Patagonian mara
- Domesticated pigeon
- Western crowned pigeon
- Bornean treepie
- Flame-fronted barbet
- Budgerigar
- Chestnut-bellied partridge
- Leghorn chicken
- Moluccan king parrot
Quarantined animals
- Black-winged starling (Can be seen roaming the safari area)
- Alexandrine parakeet (Yellow morph)
- Pesquet's parrot (Vonny and Andre)
- Oriental pied hornbill
- Eurasian eagle owl (Can be seen as a animal for visitors to take a photo with or show animal)
- Crab-eating macaque (Wild, rescued by the zoo after it was found with a badly injured left hand)
- Spotted seal
- Dwarf crocodile
- Striped hyena (Moved to Bali Safari and Marine Park)
Former animals
- Golden lion tamarin (In Royal Safari Garden)
- Silver pheasant (In Royal Safari Garden)
- Common crane
- Muscovy duck
- Chinese goose
- Malayan porcupine
- Blue peafowl (White morph, reintroduced to Royal Safari Garden)
- Javan warty pig (Moved to Taman Safari II)
- Cheetah
- Roan antelope
- Cotton-top tamarin
- Fire-tufted barbet
- Javan green magpie
- Black-naped oriole
- Nias hill myna
- Nicobar pigeon
- Yellowish-streaked lory
- Black lory
- Black hornbill
- Green junglefowl
- American flamingo
- Java mouse-deer
- Rabbit (reintroduced to the Royal Safari Garden)
- Liger (Rescued from the illegal pet trade, named Nala)
- Snow leopard (Omar and Sayan)
- Sunda clouded leopard
- Sunda leopard cat
- Bay cat
- Laughing kookaburra
- Steller sea lion
- Spotted wood-owl
- Spotted kestrel
- Whistling kite
- Grey-headed fish-eagle
- Changeable hawk-eagle
- Blyth's hawk-eagle
- Flores hawk-eagle
- False gharial
- New Guinea crocodile
- White-lipped island pitviper
- Dwarf cassowary
- Common spotted cuscus
- Black-spotted cuscus
- White-striped dorcopsis
- Polar bear
- Silvery gibbon
- Siberut macaque
- Silvery langur
- Horsfield's tarsier
- Spectral tarsier
- Javan slow loris
- Bornean white-bearded gibbon
- Black water monitor
- Green anaconda
- Flat-nosed pitviper
- Blue Tree Monitor
- Biak tree monitor
- Pig-nosed turtle
- Giant snakehead
- Iridescent shark (Albino)
- African sharptooth catfish (Albino)
- Silver arowana
- Ocellate river stingray
- Banded linsang
- Sulawesi palm civet
- Asian forest tortoise (Reintroduced to the Safari Lodge)
- Javan mongoose
- Demoiselle crane
Animal shows
Six wildlife shows are offered, including a Wild West Show, Dolphin Show, and Elephant Show. Bungalows and camping sites are available for guests who wish to stay in the park overnight.[6]
Taman Safari II
Taman Safari II is a branch of Taman Safari located in Prigen, Pasuruan, East Java (7°45′40″S 112°40′02″E / 7.761171°S 112.66722°E). It is about 50 kilometres (31 mi) from Juanda International Airport, Surabaya and about 45 kilometres (28 mi) from Malang. It lies on the slope of Mount Arjuno, 800 to 1,500 metres (2,600 to 4,900 ft) above sea level and covers about 350 hectares (860 acres), the largest Safari Park in Asia.[5]
Bali Safari and Marine Park
Bali Safari and Marine Park is a branch of Taman Safari located in Marina Beach in Bali.[7] In December 2019, the zoo introduced three Striped hyena
Batang Dolphin Center
Batang Dolphin Center is a branch of Taman Safari located in the Sigandu beach, Batang Regency, Central Java[8] The park mainly focus on Bottlenose dolphin, but the park also have other animal exhibits like sea turtles touch pool, mini safari, bird aviary, reptile exhibits, and freshwater aquarium.
Jakarta Aquarium
Jakarta Aquarium is located inside the Neo Soho mall, Jakarta. The aquarium have saltwater, freshwater, brackish, and land animals from around the world.
Criticism
The company came under fire in April 2016 for its alleged practice of drugging wild animals in order to utilise them as props in photographs with tourists.[9] The company stated the pictured lion had not been drugged and was 'just sleepy'.[9][10]
See also
References
- ^ "What is Taman Safari Indonesia". tamansafari.com. Taman Safari Indonesia. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
- ^ "Zoos and Aquariums of the World". waza.org. WAZA. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
- ^ "SEAZA Membership List". seaza.org. SEAZA. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
- ^ http://www.searchindonesia.net/national-parks-and-museums/taman-safari.html
- ^ a b "June 22, 2012 - Taman Safari Prigen Kejar Target Pengunjung".
- ^ "Conservation". tamansafari.com. Taman Safari Indonesia. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
- ^ "PT Taman Safari Indonesia III". blogspot.com. Career Development Center. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
- ^ https://www.batangkab.go.id/?p=2&id=22
- ^ a b http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3527973/Shocking-video-shows-tourists-posing-drugged-lion-holiday-snapshots-Indonesian-zoo-proud-beast-rolls-appears-fight-stay-awake.html
- ^ http://jakarta.coconuts.co/2016/04/07/taman-safari-denies-drugging-photo-prop-lion-says-it-was-just-sleepy
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