We took a tour to Safari Park in San Diego. Cherry prepared the three tickets for this day, December 31, 2015. It is a time for us to take a pause from whatever we were doing. Far apart from our daily busy life, lions, tigers, giraffes, rhinos, elephants, antelopes, and many other African animals and birds reminded me again to think of their existence in addition to the human world. This park has produced such a world artificially and is doubtlessly very expensive to keep, but must have accumulated invaluable knowledge to preserve these species.
A heavy weight rhino was seemingly digging something on a hillside with her baby. She did not seem to care our trailer approaching close to them. A tall giraffe with a small baby giraffe were guarded inside a special fence. The small one yet five foot tall was told born a week before. Animals were told very protective of their babies that the mother and baby are given special care right after birth by the facility. They don't kill baby in the womb unlike some human beings. Some lions was lying asleep neglecting our watch. Tigers were hiding in dense trees. A baby tiger was cute like a cat so innocent looking. A group of elephants looked magnificent.
How would our human beings look to them? Weakly creatures may we be to them! We have to cover our bodies with clothes and can't even run fast enough to escape from danger. But I have no way of understanding how they look at us. We saw maintenance people feeding plant leaves to giraffes by lifting the tree branches using a crane high enough to reach the head of giraffe. Apparently giraffes don't like to bend their necks low. Human being has learned how to feed them. Clever human being, I thought! It was a short excursion to the animal world for a change. (January 2, 2016, KYP)
