Otter thinking about how life is nothing but the memory of a stream of moments, the more of which you collect, the fewer there are yet to come.
Also, about fish.
Tag Archives: Santa Barbara Zoo – Santa Barbara
Western Pond Turtle
This turtle stayed up all night worrying that insomnia and anxiety were going to make it hard to work today.
Meerkat performing Doctor Faustus
What art thou, Faustus, but a man condemn’d to die?
Thy fatal time doth draw to final end;
Despair doth drive distrust into my thoughts:
Confound these passions with a quiet sleep:
Tush, Christ did call the thief upon the Cross;
Then rest thee, Faustus, quiet in conceit.
Matamata
When you are insufferably proud of your ability to grow a bit of facial hair*.
* or pigment**
** or protuberances
Bird on Sign
Goals are well and good, but goals should also be realistic.
Chilean Flamingo
As with many other species, criticism of flamingo parenting begins quite early.
White Handed Gibbon
Gibbon checking Twitter and realizing that the world will end with neither a bang or a whimper but a “Really?”.
Bolivian Grey Titi Monkey
Compiling a list of things undreamt of in Horatio’s philosophy.
– Earth’s magnetic field
– Pulmonary circulation
– Telescopes
– Logarithms
– Laws of planetary motion
– Physics of gases
– Cellular biology
– Epigenetics
– Radio transmission
– Media-based limitations to the speed of light
– Calculus
– Bayesian probability
– Conservation of mass
– Elemental theory
– Extinction
– Electrochemical series
– Infrared radiation
– Atomic theory
– Heat engines
– Television
– Public education
– Electrical circuitry
– Electromagnetic induction
– Conservation of energy
– Absolute zero
– Voting rights for non-white men
– Evolution by means of natural selection
– Germ theory
– Entropy
– Photoconductivity
– Cathode rays
– Voting rights for women
– Piezoelectricity
– Liquid crystals
– Radioactivity
– Brownian motion
– Superconductivity
– Continental drift
– Atomic modeling
– Relativity
– Black holes
– Quantum mechanics and uncertainty
– Big bang theory
– The internet
– Antibiotics
– Hubble flow
– Caloric restriction
– Nuclear fission and fusion
– Information theory
– Quantum electrodynamics
– Vaccines
– Plate tectonics
– Quarks
– Cellular division limitations
– Pulsars
– Public health care
– Gravitation waves
– Polymerase reactions
– Extrasolar planets
– Cloning
– Neutrinos
– Grid cells
– Synthetic genomes
– Photonic molecules
– Gravitational waves
Meerkat performing Tamburlaine Part 1
Environing their standard round, that stood
As bristle-pointed as a thorny wood;
Giant Anteater
Anteater walks into a bar.
Bartender keeps his damn mouth shut because it’s rude to comment on aspects of a another’s appearance that they neither chose nor are able to change.
Scarlet Macaw (modified)
Perhaps you had a bit too much to drink last night.
Or perhaps I decided to play with the colour-shifting in my image editor.
Who knows?
Macaw
This macaw would like to point out that the last time the Earth’s temperature changed by two degrees Celsius, all the dinosaurs turned into birds.
Do you really want to see what they’ll do next?
Golden Mantella
This frog is ticked off that he wasn’t consulted on the directorial choices of the latest movie in his favorite series. How dare they make make creative character choices while working within variants of the same mythic narrative structure as all of the other movies, especially after how lambasted they were for the previous film being so duplicative of others in the series? And the new aliens just piss him off. It’s a completely different galaxy for crying out loud. Everyone knows that galaxies are populated by exactly 153 alien races. Mostly, though, he is upset that $23 (including a medium size drink) doesn’t give him the right to dictate the direction of a billion dollar franchise.
He’s going to see the movie two more times, just to verify that he’s well and truly angry, and then it’s off to Reddit!