Tigers Who Change Their Stripes

I walk into a backroom in a zoo, and each side of the wide hallway has six large glass windows into enclosures that house either a lion, (a witch or a wardrobe), couldn’t… Read More →

Pi Anyone?

  I’m all packed into the car and ready to go. I am about to meet my estranged father for the first time in my life. I know only that he owns a… Read More →

Tom Cruise and the Purple Hippopotamus

My new man is a zookeeper, and I’m also quite certain that he is Tom Cruise. As a surprise he brings me an itty-bitty lavender hippopotamus to play with. I am in love… Read More →

Ape Caper

I am a biologist visiting my friend’s zoo to investigate odd behavior amongst the interactive gorilla band they had under observation. The enclosure was vast and jungly, with a small, box-like observation area,… Read More →