I got a lot of great shots today at the Bronx Zoo (including, believe it or not, a gibbon grooming a tapir), and although I plan on spacing them out over the next few weeks I thought I would put up one right away. This is one of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia) twins born at the zoo, now a bit grown up, and she just woke up from a nap she was taking with her sister and her mother on a large rock. It looks like the zoo is trying to breed another pair of these big cats, too, so more likely than not there will be more snow leopard cubs born there in the near future.
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Who, I ask you, is the coolest human being on the planet? Well yesterday (continuing through today and possibly tomorrow) it was Beth F. for sending me this rocking shot glass from the Oakland Zoo.
Ann Littlewood is a one-time zoo keeper and now-time murder mystery writer whose stories take place in and around zoos. An awesome combination if you ask me.
Thanks to a few recent generous donations, the World's Largest Zoo and Aquarium Shot Glass Collection is coming along quite nicely. I know you were all burning to know. Below is a picture of the fabulous collector's case I have stuffed most of them in.
Many people collect baseball cards, stamps, coins, comic books, rocks, fossils or nutcrackers. I believe I have opened up a whole new field of nerd-dom with my zoo and aquarium shot glass collection.
That is a great shot. You can hardly tell it's winter.
Scientific illustrator Heather Ward who blogs at Druantia Art has been working on a beautiful drawing of a snow leopard at rest recently. It's at http://druantiaart.blogspot.com/
Something about sleepy snow leopards in winter...
Thanks for the comment on my blog, Brian. Your photos are wonderful. #179 is amazing. I have always loved the big cats.