3:00 snapshot #1787: Tuesday

The view of the FP zoo restaurant from behind the door to the dumpsters.


Ugly cell phone photo of a striped garden caterpillar on the hospital garage door. The half inch mesh (and the 15 squares to the inch screen) nicely measures this larva out to 1.63333333333333 inches long.

3:00 snapshot #1788: Wednesday

Assistant Curator at work.


In the next room, mealworms begin to wander.

Pocket and me

A two headed monster.

Dinosaurs at Drumlin

When I was scouting out Drumlin Farm on Sunday morning, checking for mushroom hot spots, I came across this troop of giant birds. They were not very afraid of me. I held still, two of them walked right by me while the others cut through the woods to avoid me.

Ino swims by

Here's our male pygmy hippo, Inocencio, swimming by the Hippo Theater window. FYI the last few pics were originally posted on instagram. If you're interested, I'm @urbpan there too.