Tag Archives: Toronto Zoo
The Raccoon
Visiting the Metro Toronto Zoo, and this guy from the Canadian habitat caught our attention. Raccoons look so appealing in the zoo. They are less than appealing when I find them in my back yard trying to open the garbage bins.
It’s A Panda Sort Of Day
You were expecting something black and white? No, this isn’t a giant panda, which is what most people think of when they hear “panda.”This is a red panda, enjoying himself at the Toronto Zoo. I had never heard of red pandas until my first visit to that zoo more than 20 years ago. They quickly […]
Another Panda Post
Yesterday’s post has me still thinking about pandas. You have probably seen this joke before, but it is worth the retelling. After all, it spawned a popular book about punctuation. (If you are one of those who thinks that the words popular and punctuation don’t belong together, I understand completely. However a lot of people […]
Panda Diplomacy
Having a monopoly on an endangered species has had certain advantages for Mainland China. I thought about that on a visit last year to the zoo in Toronto. The Toronto Zoo has a couple of giant pandas on loan. They will be there until 2018, when they will relocate to Calgary for a time in […]
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