De Brazza's Monkey

Monkeys are really quite particular when it comes to selecting guitar picks.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Northern Ground Hornbill (Bucorvus abyssinicus)

Those stupid picnic group party games that you are pushed into through peer pressure aren’t limited to humans.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Green Araçari (Pteroglossus viridis)

This is a green araçari. This is not, as most of the zoo signs say, a green “aracari”. I mean, completely ignoring the fact that of all the colours this bird is, green isn’t one of them, “araçari” vs “aracari” matters because one way is correct and the other one makes you sound like a biologically and linguistically uneducated idiot … which is fair if it’s true, but not at all fair because some sign designer somewhere couldn’t be bothered to use the damn character map tool. It’s right there in operating system, people! I’m not asking people to memorize unicode character sequences here. Just know how to pronounce the words before you put them on the sign.

Sheesh.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.