Once when I went to the zoo on a class trip, I could not convince a girl in the group I'd been assigned to that the okapis were not "baby zebras"....
I know that a couple of labs have Bipes biporus and I think I saw something about one such lab successfully breeding them in captivity, but AFAIK,...
I've never seen a mole in person, just their hills, but I have seen an equally cool cousin to moles out in the wild: a short-tailed shrew. On a...
Ranging the house: 2 housecats (one of which is technically my mom's) In a 40-gallon breeder aquarium: 3 peacock spiny eels 12 espei rasboras...
Good point about the snake thing being primarily cultural in humans.
Yeah, humans are pretty much hardwired to fear snakes. It's an instinct from when our distant ancestors were relatively small arboreal primates....
Huh. If it was renovated in the 70's, maybe the memory was from her 20's?
I see. If a set up like that for small primates is safe, maybe the marmosets and tamarins were removed from the central area due to insurance...
While not shown in the video, according to my mom, when she was a kid (which would have been in the 1950's-1960's) the primate house at the Saint...
Huh. Well, still, moderately sized waterfowl, aggressiveness checks out.
Checks out, I mean they are geese.
Though IIRC, this had been changed the last time I visited, for a long time the Saint Louis Zoo had red river hogs sharing an exhibit with...
Heck, even North America has more variety of dangerous megafauna than Australia, what with the bears and the pumas and the bison. I will grant...
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