… has France ever seen a snake?
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Category Archives: Sign
Sign – Pallas Cat
This, it seems, is what they think Pallas cats look like in Paris (despite having one in the enclosure right next to the sign.)
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I get that kids can be pests sometimes, but this seems a bit excessive.
Bird on Sign
Goals are well and good, but goals should also be realistic.
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Sometimes a sign has to be simple and go straight to the point.
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I love so many things about this sign.
I love how it’s so NYC centric in exactly the say that no New Yorkers would even think twice about it but everyone else has no frame of reference for exactly how tall some of those buildings are.
I love how it shows just how amazingly tall mountains are.
I love how there is some three-dimensionality both in how the sign is angled and in how the mountains and buildings are layered on top of one another.
Most of all, though, I love how if that snow leopard on the sign were moved into NYC, we’d have a full fledged “monster destroys the city” thing going on.
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Cable’ll cut you. Cable’ll cut you up bad.
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All the lazy-ass yellow jackets are down the street, at the pub.
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I distinctly remember being told that if I met a bear on a hiking trail, that I was to get off the trail and let it pass. Maybe they *do* want the bears to eat us.
So confusing.
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Umm … I may have mis-read the previous sign.
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If you’re going to feed your kids to the polar bears, throw them all the way in. Otherwise, they’ll land too close to the fence.
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Employees must not wash hands before returning to work.
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They serve everything at that restaurant.
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Best zoo sign in Virginia.
Squirrel Sign
Yep, you read that right.
According to the Ritter Farm Park, the Gray Squirrel, native to the East coast of the US, was first documented by Lewis and Clark as they explored the West, where it is now an invasive species.
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I am not an expert in sign design, but I think this system used at the Birmingham Zoo is fantastic. Yes, the reality of an ecosystem is far more complex than a 3-2-1 approach allows, but since the average person in the US has been lied to all their lives and forced away from science education, it’s one of the most effective systems I’ve seen for reaching the masses.
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Two things I learned in college were the criticality of properly following lab processes and the importance of respecting all cultures.
It’s nice to see that The Tennessee Aquarium shares those values.
Snake Skeleton
Apparently, sometimes when you build a reptile center, you wind up with too much space in the ceiling … and what better way to fill up that space with a gigantic snake skeleton eating the moon?
Sniff Port
This is another interesting interactive display. You pretty much breathe through the sniff port and the polar bear comes to sniff your breath. Rumor has it that peanut butter is quite popular at the sniff port.
I would suspect that pickled herring would also be popular, but I don’t think kids eat quite so much of that so that may not yet have been discovered.
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Go ahead, zoom in on this one. This is a fascinating display of animals that have ridden the “extinction train”, and which ones are on it right now … all placed at the eye height of children with buttons to press.
I have no idea if there is a group that assigns awards to zoo signs and displays, but this one should be considered. It’s brilliant.