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[PA Comic] Monday, June 9, 2014 - Spectral Cat
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The Tacoma Zoo is WAY better. (One of the few instances in which Tacoma is better than Seattle).
Woodland Park Zoo has red pandas. Point Defiance? No red pandas. I think we all know who wins here.
Also the red pandas are right next to the cheetah. Who wants to look at some dumb lazy cat when you can look at some red pandas?
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Have to disagree here. People who like the Tacoma Zoo better usually like it because the animals are more visible, but in many cases its because the animals are sitting in an open field or a grass island. It's a more old-school zoo setup. At the WPZ the animals are sometimes harder to see, but its generally better for them to be in more naturalistic environments. Tacoma zoo is more popular with people who want to see lots of animals in one convenient trip, and the WPZ is popular with animal scientists and people with memberships and patient families.
Full disclosure, I worked at the WPZ years back.
That'd be good.
Went through some pretty rough events starting about a year ago, and my girlfriend decided to make it her mission to make sure I saw my favorite (extant) animal in the world as a means to cheer me up: Crocuta crocuta, better known as the spotted hyena.
The Houston zoo, like most in the USA (and across the world), doesn't have spotted hyenas. After doing some research, we found two locations that supposedly had hyenas in the great state of Texas: the San Antonio Zoo and some wildlife sanctuary about nine hours away in west Texas.
So we try to arrange a trip to not so far off San Antonio, delayed first by me going to a paleontological excavation in Snyder over the summer and then my awesome lady couldn't get time off work in the winter. Finally spring of this year rolls around and she gets some vacation time. We pack up and head to San Antonio for a romantic weekend of vodka, South Park re-runs, the Riverwalk, and, the real reason for the journey, awesome animals. Namely the hyena. Remember, me going to San Antonio to see my favorite animal in the world in person for the first time ever was the whole reason this trip first got planned.
Sunday morning we head to the zoo. I grab a map, agree that the hyena will be the last stop we make so I can spend as much time there watching him (there was only a single male, apparently) for as long as I wanted. I even check the map and there it is marked, up at the top with most of the other large predators: hyena. Right next to the lions and... I dunno, something less interesting. Might've been the Nubian ibexes, which I guess were actually kinda cool.
Typical zoo day follows: girlfriend fawns at all the adorable animals (even braves the reptile house with me for once!), I tell her about basically every animal in the park (not to brag, but I've been learning about every animal I can since I was three. I have a lot of useless animal facts to parlay). The bush dogs in particular we both loved (and they're named after Star Wars characters there!). If you've never seen a Bush Dog, do yourself a favor and google them now. They are, literally, the most adorable creature alive. They're the love children of grizzly bears and weiner dogs.
At last, the moment comes: we head to the hyena den.
"Umm... that's a pair of Bengal tigers," looks around panicking and spots a zoo employee, "Excuse me, ma'am? Where's the hyena?"
"Oh, I'm so sorry... he was getting up there in age and the zookeepers didn't think he could handle the stress anymore of being in the zoo so he was retired earlier this month."
"NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I went and sulked by the Japanese Giant Salamanders which, well... were just fantastic. So fantastic.
So the entire trip: three hour drive, hotel room for the weekend... all to see a hyena that has gone to a hyena retirement home. My girlfriend, however, continued to prove her awesomeness by getting me a plush hyena out of the gift shop. Literally one of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten.
And so the hunt continues. No other zoo in Texas keeps hyenas (closest I can find is I think in New Mexico?), I can't find that second location anymore, and the once planned Hyena Sanctuary of North America in central Texas has been voted down by the county it was going to be in (because rural Texas is a beautiful land unfortunately full of fail). But one day, someday, I will get to see a hyena and gaze upon its awesomeness.
So be happy, Gabe, that you saw the tips of their ears. I didn't get to see so much as a hyena scrotum.
I did, however, see a cheetah walking around super majestically in the open.
I've seen the cheetahs on numerous occasions, as well.
Fair enough--the last time I went to either zoo was several years ago with a one-year-old in tow, arriving after a 4 hour drive from the east side of the state, so I likely fit into the "one convenient trip" demographic.
Aye, my google searches have shown me that you lucky Toronto folks (zero clue what y'all call y'alls' selves) have a hyena enclosure.
Along with Rob Ford. The only interesting thing about the Houston mayor is that she's openly gay. Otherwise, she's pretty "meh" on all levels.
Rob Ford, however, is now a living legend across the world.
http://bigcatrescue.org/do-big-cats-like-lazer-pointers-2/
Whaaaaaaaaat.
So glad this exists.
I definitely love the change in gameplay when you decide to run a Dungeon or Adventure... but I do wish the rewards were better. If you've been keeping your crafting up to within 2 or 3 levels of your current level, nothing that drops is better than what you've got. So it's kinda frustrating to feel the elation of defeating a tricky, hard boss, only to see something drop that--even if you CAN use it--is straight up just worse than what you already had, before ever running any instances.
Ah well. Fun's fun.
You'll have to come for the hyenas. Rob Ford is currently off display.