Holidays are finally here!
I’ve had a reasonably restful week so far and spent some time playing Zoo Tycoon 2 again, taking a few new photos and doing a little bit of work on my novel. On Wednesday I had my car serviced and yesterday I went to Ikea and Harbour Town where I managed to find a few bargains. I also went out to dinner last night with my family, which was nice.
The trip to the Zoo was fantastic. It wasn’t too busy and we spent a good part of the day there. The Adelaide Zoo are getting Pandas next year, so they have closed off an area that they will be making into the new exhibit. It meant that I didn’t get to see some of my favourites (zebra, scimitar horned oryx, bongo) which have now moved to Monarto Zoo but the visit to the giraffes more than made [...]
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This is a story we hope to see more and more often in the years ahead: herpetologists and zoos releasing threatened amphibian species back into the wild. Full story here. Excerpt below:
PORTLAND - As eggs, they were rescued from the perils that have all but decimated their population. As tadpoles, they hatched under the watchful eyes of zookeepers. Now they have begun developing their land legs, taking the final step toward a release back into the wild, where conservationists hope they will have a fighting chance.
Around 290 endangered Oregon spotted frogs are being head-started into young adulthood at the Oregon Zoo in an attempt to save a species imperiled by loss of habitat, invasive predators and the deadly chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis), which has quickly spread from Africa to threaten amphibian populations worldwide.
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The birth of a giant panda cub has been caught on camera at Oji Zoo in Kobe, Japan.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7585607.stm
What a strange little thing it is.
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Nikolaev Zoo is famous like the best Zoo in Ukraine. So visiting Nikolaev, Ukraine you should definitely spend some time in its wonderful Zoo. Zoo’s inhabitants will amuse you and help you become close to the nature.
Nikolaev Zoo was founded by N. Levontovich in 1901. Since that time Nikolaev Zoo has been a good home for different animals, birds, fishes and etc. Nikolaev Zoo has a great number of inhabitants. To name just a few of them: bears, wolves, foxes, alligators, tigers, lions, bisons, deers, camels, goats, monkeys, squirrels, peacocks, parrots, fly-birds, eagles, anacondas and many other.
Here are some pictures taken in Nikolaev Zoo but browsing pictures will never substitute seeing animals in the real life.
Today Nikolaev Zoo comprises 3777 kinds of animals and for about 2800 animal units. 80 kinds of animals who live there are included into IUCN Red List. Nikolaev Zoo has the largest collection of animals [...]
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Some of our new neighbors at the Vilas Zoo, which is in a beautiful public park a few blocks from our house and has free admission to all ages:
And in case you’re curious, here are some photos of the best features of our new place–please excuse the mess, we’re moving! There’s also an office, balcony, and bedroom that I didn’t show in these photos because the pictures didn’t come out well.
Bike rack on the porch:
Storage room with color-coded yarn in the little fabric ladder thing on the left, and some very awesome folding shelves we got at Staples yesterday:
Kitchen, with gas stove! Hurray for BTU’s.
Living room
Urinal
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Happy Birthday
Im Zoo von San Diego gab es vergangenen Sonntag ein doppeltes Pandageburtstagsfest. Pandamädchen Zhen Zhen, 20 Tag älter als “unser” Fu Long, feierte ihren ersten Geburtstag. Ihre große Schwester Su Lin wurde drei Jahre alt. (Bericht mit zahlreichen Bildern!)
Zhen Zhen
Zhen Zhen, das vierte Pandababy, das im Zoo von San Diego geboren wurde und der dritte gemeinsame Sproß von Mama Bai Yun und Papa Gao Gao, kam am 3. August 2007 auf die Welt. Sie ist eine kleine Klettermaus, schläft am liebsten hoch oben in den Zweigen der Bäume in der Aussenanlage und nervt Mama Bai Yun besonders gerne dann, wenn diese schlafen möchte. Wird das übermütige Treiben Bai Yun mal zu viel, so wird Zhen Zhen nach wie vor nach Pandaart “zurechtgewiesen”.
Eines ihrer Lieblingsbeschäftigungen ist es, genau das haben zu wollen, was Mama gerade hat, es von Mama Bai Yun zu stibitzen und damit möglichst schnell auf [...]
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Many arguments erupt over which bears are “best.” One can only assume that “best” means “deadliest” or “most lethal” when talking about bears. What other criteria could be used to determine which bear is best? Exactly - none.
I will traverse the vast many species of bears to discover which bear is indeed the best bear of them all.
Koala Bear - This bear ranks extremely low in lethality, due to the fact that it is neither a bear nor lethal.
Panda Bear - Panda bears are probably “capable” of killing people, but are they capable of killing other bears? The deadliest bears are. The panda is barely worth mentioning, if not for that time a zoo panda in China that mauled a teen when he jumped into “gentle Gu Gu’s” pen. What’s worse than getting attacked by a bear? Surviving and having to tell your friends it was a panda named Gu [...]
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The zoo….. A depiction of society… its clusters, circles, brackets…. The carnivores… the herbivores… omnivores. We spent the day at the zoo, staring through thick glass and steel wire…. glaring at beautiful and exotic animals in unnatural settings. Caged….. emasculated…. controlled… scared… anxious…. uncertain…. Comparatively undeniable…..
The kids viewed the animals with fascination… Belle strutted back and forth while the flamboyant ostrich chased her… The silverback gorilla leaned his back against the glass, ignoring us… the king of the jungle locked eyes with Baker….
The kids haven’t recognized it yet, but I couldn’t resist the social overlay… sitting poolside at the community swimming hole…. The cool spot on the Serengeti…. To the right of the entrance, the carnivores… the lioness and her pride…. Adjacent and nearer to the shade, the familial troupe of primates… In the farthest corner, enjoying full sun… the gazelles.. elusively grazing with complete view of predators…. The scavengers, perched strategically, awaited to prey [...]
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Product: 7-Up
Date: 1950
It’s 1950. It’s Middle America. Here we have Mom (in her high heels and pearls), Dad, Freddie, Kay, and little brother on a swell outing to the zoo. Look at the polar bears! Look at the balloons!
Now let’s turn our attention to little brother, the cute baby in the stroller. How old is he? Eighteen months? Maybe two, tops? He’s having a good time at the zoo, as well. What’s that he’s drinking? A bottle of nourishing mama’s milk? A cup of apple juice?
No, sir! It’s cheerful, clean-tasting 7-Up. Just because you’re still in diapers doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy your very own glass bottle of fizzy sugar water. In fact, it’s good for you. It’s practically medicine. The ad says so.
Seven-Up is so pure — so good — so completely wholesome that even the very youngest can “fresh up” just as often as they want…and with [...]
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Today, I went to the zoo (well a safari park actually).
Apart from silly people blocking a three lane road to stare at a sleeping lion for 15 minutes. It was all good. The car was threatening to overheat, so the heating had to be on, it was ridiculously sunny, and we had to have the windows up incase we got mauled. I was threatening to overheat too.. It was all good though. Even if the phone pictures aren’t.
Other things I did today… Errr not alot. I got my NI? Did I write that already? I can get a job and go places once I sort out ID. Another eurgh.
Tonight I’m home alone, which is why I’m on the computer abnormally late. I’m spending my nice romantic time, alone. Sigh. Sat in here, cause I’m kinda scared of the big dark empty house. Computer seems safer…
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