Fauna of Krung Thep

Successful transition from Langkawi to Bangkok, flying via Kuala Lumpur. The switch-over in KL was a bit of a gamble, after landing we had just 10 minutes in which to get our luggage from domestic arrivals, and clear the security checks to check-in desk in intl. departures.
A bit too much flying for such a relatively short trip, but our time is running out and we didn't want another overnight train or bus with no sleep.
In Bangkok we checked in a riverside-ish midrange hotel with glorious breakfast buffet and quite spacious room. And a bathroom with no giant cockroaches, as was the case with the previous place.
Not that i blame them, the bathroom in Langkawi was also very nice.

Bangkok (Krung Thep = City of Angels, as the Thai call it) is a home to millions of Homo Sapiens but the waste and leftovers of these millions support who-knows how many more millions of rodents, reptiles, birds, mammals, even fish, not to mention the insects.
The dogs seem well-eaten, the cats a bit sceptical, rodents haven't stopped with us for long enough to judge them, but their number is huge.

In a park in the very city center, there are very large monitor lizards, watching the elderly women do their tai-chi. In the lake there are also fat fish, turtles, and i think i saw something very lobstery reach for bits of suspected food on the surface once or twice.. i myself wouldn't go do any early-morning excercise there by myself, one misjudged step on a slippery slope and zap - your're not on the top of the food chain any more but on your way to your next incarnation, aided by sharp beaks, twisting tentacles, little sucking mouths, large gripping claws, just to name a few.
This is our last night, and will do something serious about it. The government, i hear, is again enforcing the 1am curfew rather strictly, but i would think a farang with a baht will not go thirsty any hour in this city.
BTW. for those who didn't know, the full official name of the city we are in, is

กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยามหาดิลก ภพนพรัตน์ ราชธานีบุรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์ มหาสถาน อมรพิมาน อวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยะ วิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์

Can also be written in Roman letters as:

Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit

and it means:
The city of angels, the great city, the residence of the Emerald Buddha, the impregnable city (of Ayutthaya) of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarn.

No wonder people living in places with the name like "Raisio" are so much sadder a bunch than the smiling people of Thailand.