The Urban Pantheist

I was watching a keeper at her job and asked her a dumb question, but one that showed that I was in the business. (I actually wanted to know the answer to the question: "Are you removing toxic plants, or cutting browse?" I wasn't just trying to show that I was cool guy who knows zoo jargon.) She explained what she was doing (cutting browse--though I never learned what the climbing ground cover she was cutting actually was) and asked if I worked in the field. Quite unexpectedly, Becky--a herp keeper--offered to give my dad and I a tour behind the scenes in the reptile area! Here's what we saw:


A Suriname toad, a bizarre looking amphibian with an even more bizarre form of reproduction. I'll let you google it--it gives some people the creeps just imagining it.( but wait, there's more! )