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LaughingDove said:
I think the rat confusion comes from an error with the translation because I would guess the word for Tree Shrew and Rat in Karen in the same word. (apparently Tree Shrew in Burmese directly translates as 'Field Rat' ;))
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that's weird. In Malay tree shrews and squirrels share the same name (tupai).
 
When you retch at the days of yore when people had to use film and didn't have enough film to take a picture of enclosures/signs/design/etc...
And if you used up all your film and come up to an extremely rare animal
(Good thing I didn't take pictures [and wasn't alive!!] in those days. I probably would have killed myself if I did:D;))
 
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savethelephant said:
When you retch at the days of yore when people had to use film and didn't have enough film to take a picture of enclosures/signs/design/etc...
And if you used up all your film and come up to an extremely rare animal
(Good thing I didn't take pictures [and wasn't alive!!] in those days. I probably would have killed myself if I did:D;))
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Actually it wasn't so bad, you just had to have priorities: you bought a guidebook for pictures of the buildings and enclosures, you didn't worry about the signs, you had to keep a spare film in your camera bag and you tried to make every shot count.
The problem you've missed is that you couldn't check your results: it could take 10 days before you saw your photos (that was the worst case, if you were shooting Kodachrome in August), so if you messed up you it might be impossible to reshoot.

Alan
 
OrangePerson said:
Wonder if it makes me more or less qualified to not have any idea why anyone would yell ZOBOOMAFOO!
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Zoboomafoo was a children's nature show on PBS. The character Zoboomafoo was a talking Coquerel's sifaka, played by a real lemur and a puppet. Fun show, I loved it as a kid. The lemur who played him died last year, people were pretty bummed out.
 
OK, so that's like someone seeing a skunk clownfish and yelling out "Nemo!".
Or seeing a black-footed penguin and yelling out "Happy Feet!"
 
You look at a horse. There is a patch of keratin midway up each of its legs on the inside. You know what the keratin patch is. It is a vestigial toenail, a holdover from the days when the horse family had more than one toe on each foot.

You know that a horse's hoof is a sort of glorified toenail.
 
when people call snakes poisonous instead of venomous and they're constrictors.

**There are snakes that are both poisonous and venomous.** And now you know.

To interact with those with knowledge of animals, maybe experience that aren't trying to pad their post numbers. :D
 
My girlfriend and I driving all the way to Brookfield, lllinois and Madison, Wisconsin from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to visit the Brookfield Zoo and the Henry Vilas Zoo within a week of one another. I couldn't sleep the night before each before.

The looks on the volunteer's and keeper's faces were priceless when we told them that we were there to visit the zoos and to do nothing else in the city (even though in Madison, I was on the field basically at Camp Randall Stadium, and that was just amazing) and even more so when they found out we came from Milwaukee!
 
You are looking forward to the day that you can afford to give ten percent of your income to charity. The lion's share of it (no pun intended) is already earmarked for your favorite zoo, or wildlife conservation charity.
 
wensleydale said:
You are looking forward to the day that you can afford to give ten percent of your income to charity. The lion's share of it (no pun intended) is already earmarked for your favorite zoo, or wildlife conservation charity.
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I can't wait until I'm no longer a broke college student, then I can give more money to wildlife charities and rescues and the like.
 
You belong on ZooChat because you know what an Okapi is.

Seems bizarre, but ask a couple of your friends or colleagues and I am sure they will make a poor guess or look at you as if to say "Say that again!" Despite its rather unique look and rather large size, many people just don't know what they are. Just tested this on 3 people in the office and not had any idea.
 
You refuse to use those plastic slow cooker liners to save 45 seconds of washing time because you know- KNOW where that plastic is going to end up, and you want as little part in that as possible.

You get mad at people who use them.
 
Pootle said:
You belong on ZooChat because you know what an Okapi is.

Seems bizarre, but ask a couple of your friends or colleagues and I am sure they will make a poor guess or look at you as if to say "Say that again!" Despite its rather unique look and rather large size, many people just don't know what they are. Just tested this on 3 people in the office and not had any idea.
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I'm also surprised, considering that it's a large species that's fairly common in zoos. Usually people are at least knowledgeable on the charismatic megafauna.
 
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