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[urbpan]

Obnoxious jackass to dangerous animal ratio still unbalanced at San Francisco zoo.

Many zoo patrons just want the animals to wake up, or pay attention to them. I say, an animal that is trying to kill you is paying attention to you. Are you surprised that the person in this story is a young man?

In other news Living Things Cause Precipitation. Man, that Gaia Theory just sounds more plausible every day.

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[harrietbrown.livejournal.com]

Damn, people are stupid.

[candent.livejournal.com]

What's interesting is that the majority of these snow crystallizing bacteria are crop pathogens - I think I saw pseudomonas mentioned. Which the question, what benefit is it to these bacteria to have snow as part of their lifecycle? Is it so that they're positioned near an excellent food source once it thaws and starts growing again? Have these bacteria actually evolved to take advantage of being an excellent size and composition for snow-forming?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I would further suspect that there's been a huge increase in the number of crop-pathogen bacteria in the precipitation in the past 10,000 years. You know, since the invention of crops. Probably they haven't increased the amount of precipitation, but I bet they changed the makeup of the atmospheric flora and fauna.

[sin-agua.livejournal.com]

That's a fascinating observation. We haven't always been an agricultural society. Hm...

I assume you've read the "Q" books, right? The wise talking gorilla? It seems like a million years ago, when I read them, but at the time they were very powerful to me.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't read very much fiction.

[(Anonymous)]

So the guy gets arrested and booked, sits in a cell for a few hours, gets released, makes a statement to the press, goes to a bar for a drink to try and shake the whole thing off, then goes home to his apartment, is walking across the parking lot, and there under streetlight at the far end of the driveway, is Mashaki, the 12-foot long, 3,080 lb black rhino.

The guy runs for the door, but a charging rhino can top out at 35 mph, so it is no contest. Mashaki catches the acorn-thrower and hurls him with against a nearby parked SUV with enough force to shatter the passenger side windows and set the alarm off. Then the rhino fades back into the night.

The police report will say 'hit and run' and in one way, they will be right. The report will offer no explanation for the pile of animal droppings found near the scene.

--G

[sin-agua.livejournal.com]

At the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, in the hummingbird aviary, I observed a bunch of boys (ages 8-11, approximately) running around, jumping on walls, and swatting at and trying to CATCH the hummingbirds. They even tore branches off a small tree in their efforts to either catch or kill the birds. There was no security or docent anywhere in there. I had to, erm, have a word with them. Oh, and their parents were there, but they were evidently both blind and deaf. :(

I actually don't enjoy zoos all that much.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Those boys needed to spend some time in the rattlesnake petting zoo part of the museum.

Never was did my vasectomy feel more justified than when I worked at Drumlin and had kids screaming and banging on the windows of the underground exhibit almost every day.

[sin-agua.livejournal.com]

/nodding my head furiously

We will spawn no more. NO MOAR.

[espressosnail.livejournal.com]

When I worked at the zoo one summer we had a koala visiting from another zoo. We had to have someone sitting in the exhibit at all times to keep people from banging on the glass. I heard so many people ask if it was alive or a stuffed animal. Some of them were convinced that it was stuffed and the white aligator was made of rubber.
I've also seen a grown woman throwing animal crackers to meerkats. >_

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

I send you random icon love.

[bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com]

Yikes people are stupid...