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Canada Goose


Most raindrops are of some interest, but this particular one is fascinating.




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Comet (Calloplesiops altivelis)


Contrary to what most people believe the comet’s tail always points away from the sun and doesn’t always show the direction it is moving.




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Blue-breasted Kingfisher (Halcyon malimbica)


He’s not just the owner of Beakclub for Birds, he’s also a client.




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Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis)_2


Everyone needs a pillow.




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Q: How can’t you measure a snake?

A: In feet.


Q: What do you call a snake who works for the government?

A: A civil serpent.


Q: What do you call a snake that’s very polite?

A: A civil serpent.


Q: Why did the zoo’s breeding program have to replace all their plastic pedestals with wooden ones?

A: Because adders can only multiply with a log table.


Q: Why did the snake see Gone With The Wind in the theater?

A: She really liked the book.


Q: How did the snakes get out of jail?

A: They scaled the wall.


Western Green Mamba (Dendroaspis viridis)_2


Ha!




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Titi

Apr. 4th, 2016 11:01 pm
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Titi


At night, when the zoo is closed, the titi monkeys make edgy films on old 16mm cameras that they buy off of eBay.




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Sign

Apr. 4th, 2016 06:00 pm
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The fact that animals bite you when you do things wrong should be warning enough, frankly.




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Sign

Apr. 4th, 2016 02:01 pm
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Sign


Not only was this a common enough problem to require a sign, it was common enough to require the sign to be in two languages *and* needed a hotline.


Granted, this is from a state that recently decided to legalize certain passtimes.




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Mudskipper (Periophthalmini)_9


“Sure. Just sit there and breathe the air like it’s no big deal. SOME OF US AREN’T SO PRIVILEGED.”




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Yellow-Banded Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates leucomelas)_2


Many of the bends you see in branches are made by heavy frogs.




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Whitemouth Moray Eel (Gymnothorax meleagris)_1


Fish can only swim into a moray in one direction.




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Siamese Crocodile (Crocodylus siamensis)_6


It takes a lot of effort to train a crocodile but in the end, when they stand still for the saddle, it’s worth it.




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Red-fan Parrot (Deroptyus accipitrinus)_7


This is a hawk headed parrot eating a strawberry. Of course, the parrot doesn’t really have a hawk’s head. Accipitriformes and psittaciformes are two entire different orders of birds. Birds, of course, aren’t really birds. They’re avian dinosaurs. The word “dinosaur”, being coined in 1842 to mean “fearfully-great lizard”, of which the animals we call dinosaurs were most definitely not, at least on the “lizard” part. How great they were is rather subjective.


Also, a strawberry isn’t really a berry. It is an aggregate accessory fruit.


This post* brought to you by the English language.


* We now call a stream of electrons that make up words and/or pictures “posts” after the large wooden things we used to put into the ground for people to nail paper to. Thank you, linguistic evolution**.


** The word, “evolution”, of course coming from Latin and French, referring both to military maneuvers and the act of unrolling a scroll***.


*** Which, when unrolled, were sometimes nailed to posts*.




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Mimic Poison Frog (Ranitomeya imitator)


It’s called a mimic poison frog not because it’s not poisonous, but because they’re so small that they don’t produce much.




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Grevys Zebra (Equus grevyi)_4


Skills must be practiced to attain competence.




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Mudskipper (Periophthalmini)_7


When the fins come up, stuff is about to go down.




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Golden Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia)_1


His phone was, like, right there a minute ago.




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Fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox)_34


You can tell, these are the most vicious predators in Madagascar, right?




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