A-frame cheetahs are inexpensive to build and provide both stability and speed of construction.
Category Archives: Mammal
Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)
The dark spots taste like chocolate. Only recently have carob cheetahs become available for the caffeine sensitive.
Sea Otter Week!
… and this is what I look like when I’m feeding a sea otter.
Sea Otter Week!
Particularly observant sea otters say grace before meals. Most of them, though, have the meal first, then say grace when it’s convenient.
Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)
Chastising a river for being wet.
Spectacled Bear (Tremarctos ornatus)
Did you really leave the house wearing that?
Sea Otter Week!
To keep in shape, sea otters engage in a regimen of regular push-ups.
Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx)
Mandrill glue takes a while to set, so when building one, it’s best to use props to hold the parts together while you wait. Otherwise, you can get piece slippage.
Sea Otter Week!
When you’re a sea otter, you cuddle with what you can get.
Sea Otter Week!
Sea otters sing for their supper. This one is singing “The Sidewalks Of New York” by Nat Shilkret.
Sea Otter Week!
Sea otters eat frozen shellfish sticks. They also eat lots of other things, but they’re not quite as fun.
Jaguar (Panthera onca)
If you had asked me before I took this shot, I would have been almost certain that jaguars had roughly even patterning across their sagittal plane. I would have been wrong.
Sea Otter Week!
This is target training. At zoos, animals are taught a color/shape combination so they can be separated for medical checks.
Rodrigues Fruit Bat (Pteropus rodricensis)
Q: What is the first thing that bats learn at school?
A: The alphabat.
Lion (Panthera leo)
Yep. Valentine’s Day. Sure is thrilling.
Rodrigues Fruit Bat (Pteropus rodricensis)
If you have the right mutation, you too could stick out your tongue and touch your nose. If you have lots of the right mutations, you would be a bat.
Gray Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)
Wikipedia says “The gray fox appeared during the mid Pliocene epoch 3.6 million years ago.” That must have been quite the surprise to the Irish elk.
And probably, to the foxes as well.
Grey Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)
“Mmm, marmalade. Yep, pretty sure that was marmalade.”
Rose Hair Tarantula (Grammostola rosea)
According to The Language of Flowers, this orange and pale peach rose (hair tarantula) is intended to convey modest fascination. The different colours have strong historic meanings, so keep that mind the next time you make an arachnid bouquet.
White-faced Saki (Pithecia pithecia)
The low 2D:4D ratio indicates that this monkey would do well at M.I.T.