Tag Archives: #animals

Mine

Posted on November 16, 2018 by d4vid
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Thoth

Posted on November 16, 2018 by d4vid

I’m no Brolga, but this is how I feel around many of my friends. (I think this bird is an Australian white ibis, much like the African sacred ibis which is associated with the bird-headed Egyptian god Thoth.)

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Variegated

Posted on November 14, 2018 by d4vid

I forget, is this how you frame giraffes?Or is this preferable?I enjoyed this Imagineer-worthy theming in Southeastern Asia area of the zoo.Goddamn langur monkeys.  Just as obnoxiously loud as they were at the San Diego Zoo!A meerkat.The apes were all … Continue reading →

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Little

Posted on November 14, 2018 by d4vid

A pygmy hippo!  A 小河马 (xiǎo hémǎ or “little river horse”)!

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Billed

Posted on November 14, 2018 by d4vid

And the worst wildlife photography you’ve ever seen continues!  This blur is a platypus.  Just take my word for it.

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Tornado

Posted on November 14, 2018 by d4vid

Warner Bros. cartoons have misinformed me yet again.  Looks like the tasmanian devil was yet another indigenous Australian species to be adversely affected by the invasive dingos, displaced (like the now-extinct tasmanian tiger) off shore to the island of Tasmania.

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Aviary

Posted on November 14, 2018 by d4vid

This aviary was colorful and beautiful and calm.  (The exact opposite of being penned in with bats.)Great, parrot.  Don’t get cocky.These Red Junglefowl are the ancestors of all modern domestic chickens.I never realized cassowary were quite so beautiful.I like this … Continue reading →

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Clump

Posted on November 14, 2018 by d4vid

Wait a sec.  蓝山丛林游览 (lán shān cónglín yóulǎn) means “Blue Mountain Jungle Tour”.  The word for “jungle”  丛林 (cónglín) literally means “clump forest”!

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Fittest

Posted on November 14, 2018 by d4vid

Having established that Australia already looks a lot like San Diego, I appreciated this robotic T-Rex roaring with Sydney visible in the background.

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Unsavoury

Posted on November 14, 2018 by d4vid

What better way to celebrate my time in Australia than having the zoo ruin koala bears for me? My fault for visiting in spring, I suppose, but the mature male seemed disconcertingly, um, rapey.Not anthropomorphize but all the other koalas … Continue reading →

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Leela

Posted on November 14, 2018 by d4vid

Took the ferry across to Tarongo Zoo Sydney.  (Tried—and failed—not to think of Turanga Leela every time I heard the name spoken in a thick Australian accent.) I thought this logo was pretty cool.

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Sanctuary

Posted on November 9, 2018 by d4vid

In Alice Springs, went to a kangaroo sanctuary run by a guy name Brolga (a 6’7″ Aussie who got his nickname from a type of tall, slender bird.)There are 50 million kangaroos in Australia, compared to only 25 million humans.Most … Continue reading →

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Beelzebub

Posted on November 8, 2018 by d4vid

I always have two thoughts when I’m watching movies set in The Outback: Man, they sure do like cutting to shots of lizards Why does everyone have flies on their faces all the time? I now have answers: The lizards … Continue reading →

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Hilltop

Posted on November 7, 2018 by d4vid

Watching the sun set over Coober Pedy, I found myself thinking of the double sunset on Tattooine. The sound of distant chicken and sheep and dogs made me think of Gyantse in Tibet.  And how in Chapter 80 of the Dao … Continue reading →

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Helliconia

Posted on November 7, 2018 by d4vid

In the early 80s, science fiction author Brian Aldiss wrote a trilogy of books about a planet called Helliconia in a binary star system which means there are regular years (as Helliconia orbits one star) and “Great Years” (as Helliconia & … Continue reading →

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