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Thomas Knight's Treasury of Horribly Amateur, Really Quite Bad Natural History Poetry: Shakespearian sonnet for a Saiga | Poetry about the natural world by a zoo keeper (not a poet)
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Thomas Knight's Treasury of Horribly Amateur, Really Quite Bad Natural History Poetry. Subscribe in a reader. Monday, August 8, 2011. Shakespearian sonnet for a Saiga. Over Russian wilderness the Saiga. Move in massive herds of numbers countless. As they have for eons through the taiga. Covering those arctic lands so boundless. Cold and arid air does not perturb them. Laughing through their huge nose at the dry air,. Their nose a maze to trap the heat and phlegm. Dance the arctic tango devil-may-care.
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Thomas Knight's Treasury of Horribly Amateur, Really Quite Bad Natural History Poetry: August 2011 | Poetry about the natural world by a zoo keeper (not a poet)
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Thomas Knight's Treasury of Horribly Amateur, Really Quite Bad Natural History Poetry. Subscribe in a reader. Wednesday, August 10, 2011. Upon the unlikely camouflage of the Golden-headed Quetzal. The quetzal is a type of bird. That's rarely seen but often heard. The green blends with its jungle home. And somehow too its head of chrome. Its bright red breast goes unseen too? That seems like it must be untrue! Why not add some flashing red. And silver stripes upon its head. With neon purple on its toes.
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Thomas Knight's Treasury of Horribly Amateur, Really Quite Bad Natural History Poetry: Haiku for an Ornate Flying Snake | Poetry about the natural world by a zoo keeper (not a poet)
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Thomas Knight's Treasury of Horribly Amateur, Really Quite Bad Natural History Poetry. Subscribe in a reader. Sunday, August 7, 2011. Haiku for an Ornate Flying Snake. Flies through the forest with ease. Screw snakes on a plane. This haiku refers to the Ornate Flying Snake. Posted by Thomas Knight, zoo keeper extraordinaire. Labels: bad natural history poetry. Thomas Knight Zoo Keeper Extraordinaire. Three kinds of comments are welcome here:. 3) Think you can do better? Convinced you can do worse? And wi...
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Thomas Knight's Treasury of Horribly Amateur, Really Quite Bad Natural History Poetry: Limerick for a Large-seeded Alfalfa Dodder I once knew | Poetry about the natural world by a zoo keeper (not a poet)
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Thomas Knight's Treasury of Horribly Amateur, Really Quite Bad Natural History Poetry. Subscribe in a reader. Saturday, August 6, 2011. Limerick for a Large-seeded Alfalfa Dodder I once knew. There once was a plant called a dodder;. Among plants there was never one odder. It would grab a plant stem. And invade its phloem. And the sap it would take as its fodder. This poem is about the Large-seeded Alfalfa Dodder. Is not used nearly enough in poetry as far as I'm concerned. 3) Think you can do better?
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Thomas Knight's Treasury of Horribly Amateur, Really Quite Bad Natural History Poetry: Upon the unlikely camouflage of the Golden-headed Quetzal | Poetry about the natural world by a zoo keeper (not a poet)
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Thomas Knight's Treasury of Horribly Amateur, Really Quite Bad Natural History Poetry. Subscribe in a reader. Wednesday, August 10, 2011. Upon the unlikely camouflage of the Golden-headed Quetzal. The quetzal is a type of bird. That's rarely seen but often heard. The green blends with its jungle home. And somehow too its head of chrome. Its bright red breast goes unseen too? That seems like it must be untrue! Why not add some flashing red. And silver stripes upon its head. With neon purple on its toes.
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Partner Organisations | Zoo and Aquarium Association
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Join or Renew Membership Online. How to become an Institutional Member. List of Institutional Members. Other Zoos Fact Sheets. Raquo; Who We Are. Raquo; Partner Organisations. Who We Are Overview. The Zoo and Aquarium Association: Strategy 2014 – 2017. How to become an Institutional Member. Join or Renew Membership Online. List of Institutional Members. The Zoo and Aquarium Association has many working relationships. Listed below are some of the more active partnerships. EAZA the European Association of ...
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Animal Hospital – What Kind of Animal Are You?
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A Collection of Funny and Interesting Stories By and About Zookeepers. One of the vets had managed to reach up the birth canal and get the baby untangled. The head and front legs were in the canal but the shoulders were stuck and the vet couldn’t pull hard enough. She asked one of the keepers to grab hold of the legs and help her pull. Because all of the regular cages were filled, a young orangutan in the animal hospital was being housed temporarily in a free-standing cage in the hallway, He seemed to en...
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MIscellaneous – What Kind of Animal Are You?
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A Collection of Funny and Interesting Stories By and About Zookeepers. This story was told as part of a presentation at an AAZK conference. It is no doubt apocryphal but it’s fitting nonetheless. The cashier looked up at them in disgust and said emphatically, There ain’t no way I’m taking that money! Well, what are we supposed to do with it? Asked one of the men. You know what you can do with it! Replied the cashier. You guys are crazy! Duct tape probably would have worked, too. Although he couldn’t very...
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I wear glasses, too! – What Kind of Animal Are You?
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A Collection of Funny and Interesting Stories By and About Zookeepers. I wear glasses, too! Keepers were working with the veterinarian on a hot, sunny, summer day to catch several small ibex kids for their shots. Needless to say, it wasn’t long before everyone was bathed in sweat. One of the keepers, on releasing a young ibex, looked down and saw that his palms were coated with shed ibex hair. Loudly enough for everyone to hear he exclaimed, Oh, no! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You may use these.
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What kind of animal are you? – What Kind of Animal Are You?
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A Collection of Funny and Interesting Stories By and About Zookeepers. What kind of animal are you? One of the comments that keepers hear the most, and probably the one that becomes the most irritating, is the ubiquitous What kind of animal are you? Some keepers complain of hearing it several times a day, and they usually think Don’t they realize that we’ve heard it a million times? Sometimes, however, the shoe is on the other foot. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You may use these. Keepers and Their Charges.
