Category Archives: Pictures

PvZ Theme Cake

I decorated this PvZ cake for Lisey’s birthday. The plants are marzipan with colored icing and sprinx for eyes. The walkways on either side of the pool are white chocolate.

I ordered a cake with a green top and brown sides, and the baker spontaneously thought to make it look like a block of sod – she did a great job! The icing base is light brown buttercream, with the green spritz on top and with crumbled chocolate pressed on the sides. Happy birthday, Lisey!

The Magic Is Still There

Christian Science Monitor can still surprise me. Who expected it to publish these phrases? Monkeys hate flying squirrels, report monkey-annoyance experts: Japanese macaques will completely flip out when presented with flying squirrels, a new study in monkey-antagonism has found. The research could pave the way for advanced methods of enraging monkeys.

One of the most effective ways to annoy a monkey is to place it in proximity to a flying squirrel, a new study of Japanese macaques has found.

Also, monkey-annoyance expert?? HELLO, DREAM JOB.

Pelicans Are Perfect!


Pelicans receive fish at the London Zoo

Pelicans have been perfect since the early Oligocene, according to a newly published analysis of a fossilized bill, and partial skull and neck. The study’s lead author, Antoine Louchart, doesn’t actually want to commit to that interpretation, but the 30-million-year old fossil he reports on is so similar to today’s pelican species that it would be classified in the Pelecanus genus.

Study at J Ornithol

A Hint of Rat

On vacation last month, I saw a squirrel with no hair at all on its tail, and I didn’t have the heart to take a picture of what was, not surprisingly, a very unattractive animal. Here you get the hint of it amidst the great PR.