urbpan: (dandelion)
urbpan ([personal profile] urbpan) wrote2014-06-17 07:48 am

Drumlin Farm hook up

Okay youngsters (are there any young people left on LiveJournal?) "hook up" means getting a behind-the-scenes tour at a zoo, clean out your mind.

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Right away I got to see my old friend Orville, a turkey vulture who used to try to rip strips of flesh off of me despite me not being dead yet. He did not do that this day, maybe he's mellowing with age (he's got to be in his 50s now) maybe he's relaxed now that he has a partner. That white duck is one of these baby ducks! all grown up.


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This grand old wood turtle probably remembers me too--they are very smart--but didn't let on that he did.

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The snapping turtle is still there (also around 50 years old) but has been put on exhibit at Drumlin Underground! Very cool.

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But here's a new face! The bird hill exhibit features a black vulture (seen here) and a turkey vulture exhibited together! This was a real treat for me. I just learned recently that we have black vultures in Massachusetts--not in the huge numbers that the southern states do obviously--but I've yet to see them here in the wild.

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