Tag: zoo
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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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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,…
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Learn a new animal day! Siamang edition.
I’m going to give you a leg up on the average zoo visitor today and teach you about this animal: Thoughts? Well, on a typical day while cleaning/feeding around this animal, I hear the following on a regular basis: “Look at the monkey!” “I love it when that howler monkey yells!” “(Name of small child),…
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Why I love zoos
It’s because you can get this close. When you’re that close, you start to understand and care about things and the world looks a little bit different. And I didn’t have to go to Africa to see how they move and how long their eyelashes are and how they lean down to look at things.
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Painting: cheaper than therapy
Not that I need therapy, but painting is very relaxing. The current project is to decorate about a dozen terra-cotta pots to take to the zoo. They’re various sizes and all need to have some sort of “animal” theme, but really I’ve got a lot of leeway with them. I’ve got half of them finished…
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Thursday night…
Today was another zoo day. I wound up cleaning out the giraffe barn which is a lot more fun in practice than it sounds on here, I guarantee. Giraffes are very cool animals and I was entertained by the one that kept leaning around to look at what I was doing (from the outside of…
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Zoo Routines
I realized while getting ready for bed that I didn’t blog today… so I’m blogging today. It’s still technically today for me, so it counts. Really. Today was another zoosday Tuesday. The weather was weird today, though. First is was drizzly and then it was hot and sunny and then out of nowhere it poured…
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Rainy Zoosday
Today it is raining. Not the usual light drizzle for thirty minutes and then gone sort of rain, but the it’s going to pour all day long whether you like it or not sort of rain. This kind of rain is the kind that’s usually associated with a certain Irishman, whom I have yet to…
Joanna Volavka 