Happy Birthday Andy

 

Nope. No Tedious Tuesday slide today, because IT'S ANDY's BIRTHDAY!.

And it appears that Andy and Ruth have decided to visit a zoo today. Can you tell which one?

(While it isn't Tedious Tuesday, we do appear to be at home to Mr Camera-Shake.)

Bonus Kim Jong Un pointing at things

How Rare! The Bronx Zoo

 

As I have said, 2,318 times, it's weird the things that you find in a box of slides.  Like a photograph of a photograph.

Tonight, my plan of an evening of political discourse, obscene discussions and a moderate intake of alcohol was thwarted by Mr H heading off to visit Dublin Zoo.  So, here's a  picture of Laurance Rockefeller, Fairfield Osborn, Capt. Jean Delacour, Allyn Jennings, and Raymond Ditmars holding a baby chimpanzee, sitting at a table having tea at the Bronx Zoo in New York. From a 1941 edition of Vogue.

Probably related to this pic in the Getty Archives.

Bonus -  Vintage Portraits of Krystal Fast-Food Employees From the 1960s

it's .... A Cow.

 

With a calf. (OK, a "Cowlet" to use the proper term.)

This was in a box marked as "American Zoos", and the other slides were of more orthodox zoo contents. Maybe cows are exotic beasts in Montana.

Bonus - How Kids Menus at Restaurants should be. 

"Are you 'aving a Giraffe?"

 

Friday is sometimes Zoo Day, here at The Slide Guy.

And these are ....checks notes .... Giraffes.

Bonus - 

Americuh!

The Llamas of Whipsnade

 

Note the anti-spitting fence and clothing. Llamas are famous for spitting.

Or is that camel.?

Bonus - 

A Whipsnade Cheetah

 

I the midst of a box of VERY under-exposed slides, there were a few decent ones from a trip to Whipsnade Zoo.

I particularly liked this blissed out cheetah, sunning himself on the grass.

Bonus - Like humans, the notoriously nervous cats can use a surrogate best friend.

Bonus 2 - Found Photography: Pictures of People Standing Next to Their Televisions

You're 'aving a Giraffe

 

...is inauthentic Cockney Rhyming Slang for "You're 'aving a laugh". An expression of disbelief, in response to outlandish statement.

The slide, however, is a highlight from a box of "American Zoos" slides. This compound is a vast improvement from the literal cages that some exhibits are confined to.

Bonus - Coincidentally, my trawl of random images netted two other giraffe pics this month.

Best Job Ever?

Terminal Care

The Penguin Pool

 

Hopefully, this is the sort of concrete hell zoo enclosure that has been consigned to history.

And for all the folks saying that "Kids were better behaved when I was young", the sign on the right says.

" PENGUIN POOL

Visitors are asked to

stop children throwing

stones, bricks, paper, etc

as these can kill the

penguins.

King Penguins

Humbolot'

Penguins

From 5 Antartic

regions."

Bricks?  What the **** is wrong with people?

Bonus - the role of forestry waste in New Zealand’s cyclone devastation

"There's a Bear in the Raven Exhibit"

 

From a set marked as "American Zoos", and I can't really disagree.

Looks like a Grizzly Bear to me, which leads me to remind readers to watch the documentary "Grizzly Man" 

Bonus - 

The Quivering Pheasant

 

The Quivering Grouse is a native of the Kamchatka Peninsula, of Easter Russia.

Specifically, it lives in the volcanic region, where it uses the heat from the lava-flows to stay warm. When capture for western zoos, it quivers (technically, shivers) while awaiting its inevitable death from Hypothermia.

Breeding programmes have been successful when the flocks have been allowed to roam under the reactors of nuclear power station, but that does bring other hazards.

Bonus - 

Hefferlump Wash Time

 

The title says it all - Saturday is elephant bath time.

Bonus - Wurst luck – how Zeppelins hit German sausage-eaters

Bonus 2 - 

The Curious "Knee" of the Flamingo

 

Have you ever stopped to consider the Flamingo's knee?

How come it flexes forward, when every other animal has knees that flex backwards.

Well, Have I got astonishing news for you.

Bonus - Trump 2024 flags being sewn in a Chinese factory…

Tree Kangaroos ?

 

"But I only see two of them !"

No, I mean that I think that these are Dendrolagus, a.k.a. Tree Kangaroos.

They inhabit the tropical rainforests of New Guinea and far northeastern Queensland, along with some of the islands in the region. Most tree-kangaroos are considered threatened due to hunting and habitat destruction. They are the only true arboreal macropods.

Bonus - 

Yay. IASIP is back.

Are You 'aving A Giraffe?

 

The slide suggest that this is at Whipsnade Zoo in 971.

Looking at the patterns of the skin, I'd say that these are West African Giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis peralta), but perhaps some passing zoo fiend to confirm or deny this.

Bonus - Who is this Rorschach, and why does he have so many pictures of my parents fighting?

Bonus 2 - Piss-colored sadness

16132 km from Frankfurt

 There's a certain satisfaction in finding a slide, and thinking - "I have no idea where that is .... but I'm gonna figure it out".

And so it is with this one. I could go through all of my workings, but basically, it turns out to be Brisbane, Australia.

I even found that this signpost has been supplanted / replaced by a later one with slightly different distances. There's a stock  picture of it avail from Alamy, but they for 35quid to use it on a website. Nope. Screw that.

Google Lone Pine Koala Signpost if you're interested.

Bonus - The Magic of Television Effects.

 

The Lion, and The Lunch

 

The good old days of zoos, and the good old days of customer safety.

While it must be hell being a zoo exhibit in the modern world, it must have been far far worse in the past.

Bonus - This Samurai Model

Origami, and a single sheet of paper.  Info

The Three Seals of Approval

 

Keen zoologists will recognise these as being Hapsberg Seals, the only seals native to Austria.   Usually found need Innsbruck, these ones are actually in the Secret Zoo in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte.

Bonus - A forest of immensely tall and unusually straight oak trees planted nearly 200 years ago to build naval ships that never came to be.

Bonus 2 - Happy Birthday Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips !

American Polar Bear

Ursus Maritimus, if I remember correctly.

From a box marked "American Zoos", but where, when and who...evades me.

In England, I believe that Yorkshire Wildlife Park is the only zoo with polar bears.

Bonus -

Trash Panda

From a selection that was marked "American Zoos", but had no other info.

So, I know that these wee critters are officially Raccoons, but I've always preferred their alternative name "Trash Pandas".

Yeah.

Bonus -  Tanks per 100,000 Population

Bonus 2 - The Vatican has a population of 825 as per googling it moments ago. If they bought one tank they would have 1 tank per 825 people which is 121.2 tanks per 100 000 people.

The Goat and Kids

Slide marked as The title just writes itself, doesn't it?

From a series of slides marked as Whipsnade, and I think from 1970. Love the fashions.

Bonus - Veloci-Kitty

Bonus 2 - Surprisingly Motivational (NSFK)