It took about 8 and 1/2 hours, but Tracey and I made it back to New Jersey safe & sound. I have a lot to share about my experience at the conference, but for now I figured I would just share one of my favorite photos from the NC Zoo. More tomorrow...
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Finally, after a very strange day, I am able to sit down and relax. Last night I had intended to go to bed early to get enough sleep for the drive down to North Carolina but, for a variety of reasons, I did not get as much rest as I wanted to. There wasn't much I could do about this, though, and my…
You might think the zoo is an odd place for psychology bloggers to meet up. But on Saturday not only did Greta and I get a chance to connect with some of our readers and fellow bloggers, we also received some fascinating insight into the psychology of zookeeping. Our group toured the North Carolina…
Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years'…
Female Snow Leopard twins born last year at the Bronx Zoo.
When I initially started posting pictures on my blog, I didn't know if anyone would have anything to say about my pictures. I frequent zoos, museums, and aquariums, usually shooting between 200 and 600 shots per trip, the handful of good…
I'm glad to hear that you made it back with no problems! So sorry I had to leave fast last night, but I had a great time hanging out with the Switeks Squared this weekend, looking forward to next year!
Lauren and I win: it took us 11 hours to make it back here.
I remember when meerkats were considered pests, of no interest whatsoever. You went to Africa to study lions, leopards, rhinos, and cape buffalo. The testosterone crew.
Now it's meerkats and pygmy mongooses people think of when they think of Africa. And why? Because they're cute, dangit.
And they take to people like nobody's business. People in Africa have started keeping them as pets, and in a few meerkat generations we'll be talking about domesticated meerkats. Is fact, with all we're learning about animal behavior and human/non-human interactions the early 21st century could well become known as the second great age of animal domestication. The domestic barn owl, the domestic rhino, the domestic tasmanian devil.
Speaking of which, keep your eyes open for news of the results of a genetic study of a pair of deceased tasmanian tigers. Among other things the report says the tazzie tiger may have died out because the species was too inbred. Considering how inbred the tazzie devil is, domestication may be the only way to insure the survival of the species.
In any case don't take too long recovering, you've got blogging to do.