Red River Zoo

[guppiecat]

I go to the Red River Zoo twice a year. Once on the way to Winnipeg. Once on the way back from Winnipeg.

The wolves have grown up, and the kids in Fargo are now made out of spun sugar, but other than that, things are much the same. The set is here.




Raccoon Dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) - "Yay! I look like a raccoon!"


White Lipped Deer (Cervus albirostris) - "Nothing tastes better than floor"


Russian Red Tree Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris exalbidus) - Bouncy squirrel! Bouncy bouncy bouncy!


Robin - "One day my child, you will be an adult, and being an adult means accepting the fact that humans call us 'robins' when we are, in fact, thrushes."


Wolf (Canis lupus) - Wolf noses taste like black licorice.


Wolf (Canis lupus) - Not so tolerant, actually.


Bird - The word awkward doesn't refer only to auks.


Indian Peafowl (Pavo cristatus) - Peeping out of darkness.


Indian Peafowl (Pavo cristatus) - Babies love their mama.


Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomus ludovicianus) - Prairie dogs celebrate Christmas... they just don't go all out.

Comments

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

You DO need to do a book of prairie dog photos with captions. It would be a thing of wonder!!!

I also am amused that you are SO good at taking photos of fierce animal's tongues when they look particularly doofus-like. (I'm thinking of the tigers as well as the wolf.)

Btw, I watched last week's "Stargate Universe" today, and while one of the characters mentioned "Alien", it didn't really remind me "Alien". I'll give it a few more weeks, but I'm pretty much ready to give up.

[guppiecat]

I like tongues. This was actually mentioned at a recent con. :)

There is a kids book called "The Book of Tongues" that illustrates the special tongues of special animals. I'd like to eventually release a second edition (yes, of an obscure 1940s-era children's book :) with photos.

I'm calling it "Stargate: Resource Constraints" now. I wonder if they'll run dangerously low on gravity next week and have to stop by a plot-convenient blackhole to pick up some more.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

I should not read your comments when I'm in a phone meeting--I nearly LOLed.

The Book of Tongues would be wonderful--I have enjoyed the variety of your tongue photos. (And also the goofiness of that wolf licking his nose.) But I think you also need to do a prairie dog book. That photo of the minimalist prairie dog Christmas tree is priceless. I have been using your dandelion-sniffing piglet escapee as my desktop background at work (and you have gotten lots of compliments), but I'm considering replacing it with the prairie dog Christmas.

And speaking of priceless--"Stargate: Resource Constraints"! That makes it almost palatable.

[trishtrash.livejournal.com]

Your animal sets are always adorable and I always learn something... I had to Wiki 'raccoon dog' because I wasn't convinced such a thing actually existed. How could I have not known about cuteness of that magnitude?

Wolfs :) *is several degrees happier this morning, having seen this set*

[hrrunka]

Curiously, someone else in my f-list posted a photo of what looked like a skinny raccoon about ten days back, asking "What is this animal?". Answers pointing at both tanuki and raccoon dog (and a few less likely suspects, too) were offered...

[trishtrash.livejournal.com]

Glad it's not just me having overlooked an entire species of mammalian cuteness; that they aren't generally well known encourages me and also makes me suspect a giant continental cover-up. "We have a new source of cute. Let's not share this one..."

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

they're all lovely, but the caption for the prairie dog one is awesome. :)