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If you arrived here look for sex and cocaine use the second arrow because you ve got the wrong blog This one s about fur feathers and flippers How you might ask did a certified eco nut tree hugging conservation extremist end up in Sin City on New Year s Eve It has to do with Death Valley and sign painters and we will cut that story Instead picture me stunned by neon after a week in the desert gasping from cigarette smoke and failing at both slot machines and electronic blackjack without the courage or disposition to dig deeper into gambling without the bucks or dip for the high ticket shows Well we did see Blue Man Grou

at the Venetian and it was great but that s two hours and so there you are again seated on a huge bed staring at the TV Thus was born the wildlife tour of resorts on the strip I started logically at Circus Circus On the second floor a classy high wire act provided free entertainment At the cheesy midway surrounding the ring I asked about circus animals The people manning the booths where guests throw balls to win stuffed animals etc gave me answers indicating that the staff was not drawn from the native English speaking population When I finally made myself open to a woman in a sari dart game the response was No no animals OK fine On to The Mirage The Mirage houses Siegfried amp Roy s Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat 15 to get in to a pleasant little zoo The dolphin pools are first and they are great and clean No scheduled shows the trainers work the animals frequently but without much hoopla Two bottlenose dolphins in the first pool did the spectacular leaps we all love then the trainer worked closely with one He tugged the creature out of the water by its tail until it was all on the shore Then he signed it to float around the pool waving The whistling and hand signals were subtle the fish rewards not so much I am constantly stunned by the acquisition of marine mammal trainers Give them a pail of angle and a whistling and they can accomplish anything with a dolphin They too have a fun show out of husbandry behaviors Being able to meet the animal and get it out of the water has got to be a neat assistance in treating any medical problems and of class it doesn t require strength and drama if the creature is exploited to doing it every day as percentage of the feeding routine One of the staff said that most of the dolphins were born there For some reason the installation included a lot of alpacas Beats me Next came the cats Siegfried amp Roy s famous white tigers One was pacing and squirting in a large grassy enclosure with a waterfall Two white cubs getting some size on them were being babysat by a new woman A white lion lay regally The trunk was tan the mane was bright white Looked peroxided All the enclosures looked right and the animals weights looked OK to me although I am just an expert Now your ordinary zoo lion or tiger is seldom an instance of vigorous intellectual ferment but they run to induce a spark of cunning about them as though they are keeping one eye open for their big opportunity to show what a predator can do Not so these white animals The male lion especially looked as if you d get to head out where the food was each and every day or he might starve OK that s not fair I m judging based on vague eyes and a bit of tongue hanging out Forget I said it Since no one is probably to see a Siegfried amp Roy show ever again I stood in the gift shop and watched the full video My feet hurt but I m cheap The show looked stunning I have to say Vivid and dramatic Then the video showed an interview with one of them Roy and he went on about conservation and saving endangered white tigers and lions and reintroducing them into the wild and I came to my senses What a stretch of equine scat Those inbred mutants wouldn t stand a sorry can t resist snowballs chance in the wild They re dangerous pets people think they re pretty and Siegfried amp Roy made a lot of money off them That s all And in typeface you were wondering they do plan to keep on raising them That s what the cubs are for Roy amp Siegfried do mention Save The Tiger on their website the sole evidence I found of real conservation Heaven knows lions and tigers could use the help Check these links out and donate what you can Tigers Lions Next up Part 2 Feathered Headdresses on BirdsTechnorati Tags Las Vegas Siegfried amp Roy Secret Garden white tigers white lionsAdd to Technorati Digg del icio us Yahoo BlinkList Spurl reddit Furl