On the fourth day of my trip, we went to the zoo, Zoo Sauvage de St-Felicien. It was definitely a big zoo with lots of animals. The zoo layout was formed based on different regions, there was Arctic, Mixed Forest, Mountain, Mongolia, Asia, Mini Farm, and Nature Trail Park.
So we can see these animals: (first row) Fox, Wolverine, Przewalski Horse; (second row) Polar Bear, Demoiselle Crane, Bald Eagle, Grizzly Bear (last row) Japanese Macaque (feel bad for the one who lost that camera)
What made this zoo special was its caged train ride which lasted about an hour to drive along paths right next to certain animal habitats and showed us the evolution of civilization in the region and the significance of the Borealis Forest.
On the top you can see what its like to look out from the caged train and after that is one of the settings. The following are some of the animals on the trail, they were really close so I rarely had to use any zoom. First row has the baby prairie dogs and the adult prairie dog. They were all over the plains area. After that in the second row is the reindeer, musk ox and black bear.
Another highlight was the fact that they had feedings for most of the animals there which allowed everyone to see a lot of the animals come out of hiding so we could understand a bit more about each of them as well. We didn’t see all the feedings but we did go to a good few animals.
The feedings we caught was for Japanese Macaque, followed by the next one with the Amur Tigers. These are just the males though, the female is with her newborn cubs and could only be seen on live camera inside their resting area, since the baby tiger cubs were just born in early June. After in the second row, we can see the Lynx patiently waiting for food, then the cougars and finally, we saw the Polar bear feeding. The polar bear had just jumped off the boulder into the water to get the fish and shaking himself afterwards.
This zoo was so amazing. I would definitely consider going again especially since the ticket also included two short movies. One of them is a documentary and the other was a multisensory movie which was quite fun and entertaining.
Tranquil Dreams 