animals real or not???

[GOOFY4DONALD]

I was never sure if the lion was real, everytime I rode it was in the same place, but I guess it's real!!

I was going to post the same thing. DH and I swear that lion was fake . I have ridden the safari 4 times my mom has ridden 3 times (totalling 7 different times) and the lion was always laying in the same spot...not to mention the travel channel special on AK where they show the lion...where else on top of that rock.

 

[BradyBz12]

I was going to post the same thing. DH and I swear that lion was fake . I have ridden the safari 4 times my mom has ridden 3 times (totalling 7 different times) and the lion was always laying in the same spot...not to mention the travel channel special on AK where they show the lion...where else on top of that rock.

Try for one of the last safaris of the day. That's feeding time and we've seen a few times him pacing intently waiting for dinner.

 

[mommykds]

I can vouch for the Lion's "realness". In 2007 during the safari he was doing "his business" up there like a dog at a fire hydrant as we turned around the rock. The guide just laughed as he said "king of beasts" as did the whole jeep.

 

[BeachClub1292]

They use natural barriers and food to encourage the animals to be where they want them to be. There is a great documentary about it on the travel channel from time to time.

Also some of the plants aren't plants there electric fences to keep the animals in an area. I'm an electrician and I worked with a guy that installed a lot of the electric fences etc. at the AK. There are vents on the rocks blowing cool air to keep animals there and hidden food bins to keep animals out. Everything he told me was pretty interesting.

 

[skier_pete]

The Jungle Cruise animals, however, are all fake.

Except for the wild jungle ducks!

 

[mlittig]

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As a teacher, I can only speculate on what it would have been like to have you Robo as a student in my first grade class It is such a fine line to encourage that kind of creative imagination while still educating the mind Thanks to everyone for all the interesting information about the animals on the safari I love that ride especially since it is different each time you go

 

[ZoZo]

I was never sure if the lion was real, everytime I rode it was in the same place, but I guess it's real!!

The keepers have different methods of encouraging the animals to stay in certain "viewable" spots. They might put out browse (leafy material) for some animals, or other types of food.

They might use heated rocks on cool days to entice animals to stay in a certain spot. I went on the behind-the-scenes tour of AK, and they told us that to keep the lions on "Pride Rock," they actually drilled holes through the rocks, and blew air-conditioned air up through them, to help keep the animals cool.

 

[Robo]

As a teacher, I can only speculate on what it would have been like to have you Robo as a student in my first grade class It is such a fine line to encourage that kind of creative imagination while still educating the mind

I'll take that as a compliment!







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[bamagirl@hrt]

I heard that the kids in small world are real too. For some reason i cant get my children signed up to be a CM in small world

If you ever read "Kingdom Keepers", you will never look at the dolls in IASW the same again. My daughter was a bit creeped out the first time we rode after she read that book!

 

[BradyBz12]

If you ever read "Kingdom Keepers", you will never look at the dolls in IASW the same again. My daughter was a bit creeped out the first time we rode after she read that book!

...or if you ever see the episode of Family Guy where Peter takes Stewie to Disney World.


it's a tiny, tiny world....

 

[floridianer]

What do you mean the baby elephant is not real?! Why would we go through all that trouble to save a fake elephant from poachers.

And next time they are going to tell us that there ARE no poachers???
And what about that plane flying over us??? I never saw it but it is there...
(YES, they even talk to US!!!)



Oh, I guess one or two others allready confirmed that ... Yes, there is an "air condition" (a fan) where the lion is in sight... AND the electric fences are THERE never get of the car and run...

You can clearly see a lot of the "fences" for the animals when the bus goes from one area (enclosure) to another... These metal ropes prohibit that the animals go into the "wrong" enclosure...
(allthough the lion would have a lot of fun!! )

 

[flipflopmom]

Wondered how a question as simple as this got to 4 pages. Should have known Robo had something to do with it!

 

[ambertides]

I've never gotten to see the lion! So if he were fake he must pop out of the rock.

 

[floridianer]

Yes, I guess he usualy poop on his rock...

OH, I guess I misread something...

 

[skier_pete]

I'll take that as a compliment!

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Geez Robo...It took me like 15 seconds to figure it out...but I did a literal LMAO!


As far as fakes, the Ostrich eggs are fake, the "elephant rubbing there tusk in the mud" is fake, the road ruts are fake. Well, truth be told everything BUT the animals themselves is faked. (Last I checked there are no other African Savannahs in Florida.)

 

[jenseib]

I have read where some people think the crocs (or are they gators?) are fake...and they kind of look fake just laying htere, but I have seen them move a bit once.

 

[Robo]

As far as fakes, the Ostrich eggs are fake, the "elephant rubbing there tusk in the mud" is fake, the road ruts are fake. Well, truth be told everything BUT the animals themselves is faked. (Last I checked there are no other African Savannahs in Florida.)

The Ostrich egg & ant hills are also not real but everything else is.

Yes there all real except Little Red and the ostrage eggs!

As any Safari CM will tell you (but NOT during the tour,) the ostrich eggs are, in fact, real.

But, they were not "put there" by any ostrich, and there are no "little ostriches" inside.

 

[OhThePain]

The next time you are in WDW have him take you on AK's Backstage Safari. It goes behind the scenes to where the animals return when they feel like it. I took my girlfriend on it on our last trip with no actual desire to see it and I was shocked at how good of a tour it was. That will prove it to him once and for all.

 

[haleofafamily]

I was never sure if the lion was real, everytime I rode it was in the same place, but I guess it's real!!

My DH would always jokingly say that the lion was fake because of the same reason. Then I think he really started to believe it was fake since he had said that so much. On our trip in Sept, we had a couple of ostriches that walked very slowly in front of our jeep and then decided to stop and look around for a while. We were stuck right past the 'fake' lion. After we had been sitting there a few minutes, the lion got up all of the sudden and started making some odd huffing noise at the jeep behind us...sitting right in front of him. We were so excited because 1. the lion moved and 2. my DH finally believed he was real.

We have been either told or read or seen on Travel Channel that AK has 'cooling rocks' on parts of the savannahs to encourage the animals to rest in a spot where they can be seen by the guests.

 

[MHTeacher]

The Jungle Cruise animals, however, are all fake.

WELL.....THANKS ALOT FOR RUINING THAT!!!!