Optimal Museum Strategy: Explore The Exhibits, As Per Usual, But Keep Your Ears Open For People Who Know

Optimal museum strategy: Explore the exhibits, as per usual, but keep your ears open for people who know what they're talking about. Listen in; you'll learn so much more. (And if they're really nice, they may even show you around and answer your questions!)

boop.

This man.

SO NO ONE ON MY SIDE BLOG IS AS EXCITED ABOUT THIS AS I AM,SO I'M GONNA SHARE IT WITH MORE PEOPLE HERE. Also, it occurs to me that I didn't explain myself well. These two birds at the center (among about a dozen others) were really friendly and genuinely happy about interacting with us. Fyi: the birds at the center were ones that were brought to the rehab facility, but for whatever reason, could not be released afterward. (Also, I have no idea what the actual sex of these birds was, but I realized part way through I was referring to them as "he", so I sorta went with it.) The raven showed off, hopping around his cage pulling grapes out of a whole bunch of little hiding places, talking and pulling his bell toy to first get our attention. The turkey vulture was really amiable, coming up to the edge of his cage and walking around and very clearly non-verbally interacting with us (in a non-threatening/non-threatened way). He was really chill and just excited to have guests. He played with some twigs (as did the raven) and then did something incredible. He spontaneously decided to display for us. I don't want to spoil it with a less-than-adequate description, so I'll post the video. It was so awesome. Both of them got jealous when we were paying attention to the other, but seemed to actually be friends. At one point the raven made a point of moving so that he could sit on a perch next to where the vulture was sitting, separated by the wall/fence between their enclosures, and vocalizing (and the vulture seemed to be comfortable in the raven's presence as well). Like I said, cute.

SO WE VISITED THE SHARON AUDOBON CENTER AND MET A VERY FUNNY AND CLEVER RAVEN AND THE CUTEST FRIENDLIEST TURKEY VULTURE. THE RAVEN WAS GORGEOUS AND THE VULTURE WAS UGLY BUT SO ADORABLE. (These are terrible pictures; they were much more majestic in person.)

My biology text describing Ulva, a multicellular green algae: "Often pieces are broken and washed onto the shore whiter they lie limp as a wet facial tissue, rapidly loosing their chlorophyll pigments as they dry." So, Ulva = snot-filled tissues Isn't nature beautiful.