Nagasaki Bio Park- A zoo that provides both education and inspiration

#日本長崎 #長崎観光 Nagasaki Bio Park: A natural experience journey to learn to coexist with animals 🐾 Located in western Kyushu, Nagasaki Bio Park (長崎バイオパーク) is an ecological zoo with the core concept of "animal freedom, human participation". The park breaks the fence design of traditional zoos and adopts an open space to allow animals to move freely, while also allowing visitors to observe and interact up close. From popular animals such as hippos, capybaras, and rabbits to parrots, meerkats, and golden monkeys, there are a variety of animals with distinct personalities on display here. In addition, the park also has an Animal Quiz trail full of fun and educational significance, allowing travelers to walk while challenging animal knowledge through questions and learning about nature in fun. ❇️ Hippopotamus Area: Momo-chan's Interaction Time 🦛 In the hippopotamus area, there is a vending machine that sells cabbage balls suitable for hippos. After inserting a coin to buy, shout "Momo-chan", the hippopotamus will actively approach and open its mouth to wait for feeding. This interactive design allows visitors to establish a direct connection with the huge animals while ensuring safety. There is an observation deck and information board near the hippopotamus feeding area. Hippos are one of the attractions with great educational and entertainment value in the park. ❇️ Capybara Area: A representative of calmness in daily life 🐹 The capybara area has a wide grassland and hot spring pool, allowing capybaras to live freely in a natural environment. They mostly live in groups and move statically, and sometimes stop by the trail to take a rest. The park specially designed a low wooden fence so that visitors can observe them up close without disturbing their pace of life. As the world's largest rodent, capybaras are characterized by their social behavior and innate calmness. ❇️ Wild rabbit grassland area: lively animals that shuttle freely 🐇 In the rabbit area, wild rabbits move freely in the grassland without being kept in captivity. The park sells exclusive feed for visitors to feed, but it is clearly stipulated that only the types provided by the park are allowed to avoid affecting the health of the animals. Rabbits are friendly to people and will actively approach them. This is an area that families and children particularly like. Visitors can learn about the social behavior, fur color variation and living habits of rabbits. It is an excellent place for parent-child interactive education. ❇️ Golden monkey area: lively and agile explorers 🐒✨ Above the forest trail, you can see many golden squirrel monkeys shuttling back and forth between ropes and platforms. These monkeys are small in size, agile in movement, and are particularly curious about human belongings. The park reminds visitors to avoid carrying open bags or uncovered containers to prevent items from being taken away or licked. Monkeys will briefly land on people's shoulders to search, which is a unique interactive experience. ❇️ Big Parrot Platform: Colorful Language Masters 🦜🎨 In the bird interaction area, you can observe large parrots such as blue-and-yellow macaws up close. These birds have bright feathers, and some individuals have the ability to imitate language. The park trains them to interact with people, but still maintains space for free flight and rest. Visitors can often hear them mimic simple Japanese words and phrases, and can also appreciate their movements when flying high or landing between railings. ❇️ Sulcata Tortoise Area: The Interpretation of Slow Life 🐢 On a sunny stone slab section, several African Sulcata tortoises move slowly at a leisurely pace. These tortoises walk freely in the open area without interference, and sometimes appear in the middle of the trail. The park has set up explanation signs to introduce the longevity of tortoises, the structure of their hard shells, and how they cope with arid environments. This is an ideal place to observe the natural behavior of reptiles. ❇️ Meerkat Rock Hill: A Highly Social Guardian 🦊 The meerkat area simulates their native semi-arid habitat in Africa, with sandstone structures to create an undulating activity space. Meerkats often stand to guard the four directions, and taking turns to stand guard is their typical social behavior. ❇️ Crayfish Catching Experience: A Little Fun of Being Close to Water and Nature 🦞 In the stream and shallow pool area of ​​the park, there is a crayfish catching experience area for both adults and children to participate. This activity is especially popular with children. Using the small scoop nets and buckets provided by the park, they can search for red crayfish hidden in the cracks of rocks or water plants in the clear water, which is both a test of eyesight and full of fun. However, the park clearly stipulates that all captured crayfish must be put back into the water and cannot be taken out of the park. This regulation not only maintains ecological balance, but also allows participants to learn the important concept of respecting natural life. ❇️ Food area 🍛 After a whole day of animal interaction and exploration, the dining area in the park offers a variety of choices to meet the tastes of different age groups. There are hot foods such as Japanese curry rice, udon noodles, and oden, as well as light snacks such as ice cream, desserts, and juice. The dining area is mostly located next to the rest square, and some seats are located in the semi-outdoor area, where you can enjoy the natural scenery while dining. The menu will be slightly adjusted according to the season, and allergen information is also marked, which is very friendly to parent-child families and tourists. The park also advocates environmental protection, encourages the use of reusable containers, and has a classified recycling area to facilitate tourists to participate in garbage reduction actions. ❇️ Animal Quiz Trail: A combination of knowledge and fun 🧠 The park’s special "Animal Quiz Trail (アニマルクイズ散策路)" has a series of small knowledge question and answer boards about animals along the way. The design of the questions is all-encompassing, from physiological structure to behavioral patterns, to habitats and food habits, suitable for visitors of different ages to participate. There are illustrations next to each question option to assist explanations, and some areas even cooperate with the actual display of the animal, so that people can observe and think about the answer at the same time. There is a QR code at the end to check the correct answer, and it also encourages children to complete the entire trail challenge. This route makes the overall visit process more guided and educational, and enhances the overall participation and depth of interaction. ❇️ Hand-painted notices and natural integration design 🖌️ All signboards and animal introductions in the park are designed in a hand-painted style, emphasizing environmental protection concepts and visual affinity. The content is presented in easy-to-understand language, with illustrations, which helps children understand and remember. In addition, the overall spatial planning of the park is closely integrated with the local natural terrain, with wooden bridges, streams, grass slopes and forest trails, so that ecological conservation and tourism experience are balanced. Nagasaki Bio Park is not only a place to display animals, but also a learning garden that encourages humans to rethink how to coexist with nature. The open space, the design that respects the habits of animals, and the knowledge-oriented guidance that can be seen everywhere make this place the first choice for parent-child travel and nature education. The animals here are no longer just static displays, but participants in real life; tourists have changed from spectators to interactors and learners. For anyone who cares about life and nature, this is a journey worth collecting.