Going through photo folders to find images for the references project, and I came upon a couple photos of the juvenile gorillas at Woodland Park I’d forgotten I’d taken. They’ve got two lit...
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kaijutegu : > Posting due to an emergency- please share widely if you’re local > to Chicagoland. > > If anyone in the Chicagoland area sees this, a friend’s serv...
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I have a (mostly) unrelated jobjob - I’ve never actually been affiliated with a single facility, unless you count college internships before I started this blog. I freelance, working as a scien...
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It isn’t really notable, but that’s a good thing! It means lots of zoos are using it to enrich their animals’ lives. Browse is really important enrichment for herbivores because so much I�...
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I don’t work for any zoo, actually (combination of wanting to think outside the box, disability, and the fact basically none of them pay a living wage). But thank you! Oakland and San Francis...
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acutely-autistic : > why-animals-do-the-thing > : > > >> The Woodland Park Zoo had a spring event this past weekend, which >> I had to hit up for the fun enrichme...
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According to the zoo yesterday, he's out of surgery and doing well! "The update we’ve all been waiting for with bated breath. Last night, around midnight, Lomelok fully stood up on his own fo...
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I’ve been saving this project for a new website I’m planning, but that’s been delayed by the grindstone of capitalism, so I’m going to set up this part early. This is the concept test for...
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The Woodland Park Zoo had a spring event this past weekend, which I had to hit up for the fun enrichment. My favorite of all is the maned wolves - who you rarely ever get such a good chance to se...
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anais-ninja-bitch : > whydidisavethistomyphone > : > > >> 5 year anniversary of the miette post o/ > > 995 years left on mother’s sentence
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drtanner : > catasters : > >> > > I’m convinced that every cat has a Weird Game that it likes; your > duty as the cat’s owner is to discover what its fav...
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Do you have a snoot noodle or other variation of sighthound? If yes, there’s new heart health research for the breed happening! A researcher at Texas A&M whose work I’m familiar with is sta...
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Over the last few years, I’ve begun to heavily encourage people to think of a zoo or aquarium or sanctuary being accredited as conveying important information about their ethos / operations / p...
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‘Boop someone’ day? You obviously mean 'BITE someone’ day. Feat. the Lincoln Park Zoo lion littles, last spring.
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The Bronx Zoo has just released Flaco’s necropsy results. He was not thriving, as the people championing the ideal of “freedom” claimed. He was poisoned. He was sick. He was suffer...
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This does exist! UV stickers you can put on residential windows are pretty common these days (if you can access the outside of them - not so good for a Manhattan skyscraper). I found a couple...
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I present to you: the aforementioned tiger shenanigans. This is Amur tiger brothers Luka and Dmitri, who just turned two a few days ago! Two boys and their boomer ball.
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I don’t need a third memory card for a zoo day, I said, 96GB is more than enough. Then the second card ran out in the middle of tiger sibling shenanigans.
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kailthia : > why-animals-do-the-thing > : > > >> If there was one animal literacy thing I could change with a wave >> of a wand, it would be increasing people’s...
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Twin polar bear cubs Kallik and Kallu from the Toledo Zoo.
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