Category: conservation ftw
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Monkeying Around
[edited to add photos] Today the schedule at the zoo was completely disrupted by tree trimmers beside the tiger exhibits, so the tigers couldn’t go outside so we couldn’t clean inside so we had an extra hour on our hands. So I suggested we flood the spider monkey exhibit. This turned out to be excellent…
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Ducky Day
Today was one of those quietly wonderful days that aren’t exciting in the sense that you find yourself thrilled at every moment, but that at the end of the day you look back and suddenly realize that you’ve had an excellent day indeed. Today I went to the zoo as usual, had fish tacos for…
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A pirate’s life for me..?
Let’s play a game… Sing along if you know it! “One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn’t belong!” See it? There you go. The Black Pearl. More photos are found in my photo blog, once they’re uploaded. [update: You can find them starting here, but there aren’t…
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Spring is in the Air
And so is a whole lot of rain. It’s been pouring most of the week (usually at night), but all day today has been a deluge. Everything floods with these week-long rains and it makes getting to and from places interesting. It also makes me question my decision to not have a garage door opener.…
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Elephant in the bathtub?
Did anyone besides me read the book George and Martha when you were a child? It was one of my favorites, especially the story about Split Pea Soup and the one with Martha in the bathtub. You should know that George and Martha were best friends and hippopotamuses. It just occurred to me that they…
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Tiny sea life
Today was a nice, quiet day that we spent (mostly) at the beach. I took some photos that will get uploaded later, but in the meantime, I wanted to show you the tiny hermit crab I found. I love how colorful he is, and that his eyes are the width of the ridges of my…
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New Year This’n’That
Happy New Year! I have a few random things to share, but nothing very philosophical, so here goes. First, 1-1-11 is fun to type! I didn’t think about it until this evening, so I guess I’m a little late on that one. But I’m hoping people call it “twenty-eleven” and not “two thousand eleven,” which…
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Monk Seal Surprise!
There is a beach up on the North Shore where you can almost always see Hawaiian green sea turtles. There are about forty (I think) that live in the area and usually one or two are up on the sand, basking. It’s an ideal place for them, and an ideal place to take out of…
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Stoneware and muddy rhinos
…but not at the same time… ^_^ We recently acquired four of these little soup bowls and I am thoroughly pleased with them. I wouldn’t normally broadcast a kitchen purchase (especially a small one), but these stoneware pot-style bowls are wonderful and if you’re near a Crate and Barrel you should go look at them.…
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A Cheetah’s Favorite Spots
Yesterday I participated in an animal behavioral study. Specifically, we were keeping track of how often during the day the zoo’s two cheetahs were visible to the public. Have you ever had to study animal behavior? It makes for a long day. A long day during which my view was mostly this: Nice, empty exhibit,…
Joanna Volavka 