Go to the stinky, smelly zoo?
See: A Day at the Boston Zoo
I guess things have improved from last year, huh?
I guess the filler calender called for another zoo story, huh?
Front-page feature, no less!
"Zoo has tricks to beat this beastly heat" by David Filipov, Globe Staff | July 7, 2010
With temperatures tickling triple digits, Franklin Park zookeepers spent yesterday lavishing heat-fighting indulgences on the furry and the feathered....
Interesting, because I spent two hours at the butterfly house yesterday. When I came outside I felt it was cooler.
For Christopher the lion and Luther the tiger, relief can come in the form of bloodsicles — the frozen treat made from blood....
I notice the war machine never pauses for heat, either.
Less visceral, no less earthy, were the frozen concoctions doled out to other creatures.
The pottos — small, nocturnal primates from west and central Africa — enjoyed a frozen banana. The cotton-top tamarins, small primates found in Colombia, munched on bugs and carrots in little ice cubes. And some homo sapiens — people visiting the zoo — thermoregulated under a large tree, slurping down ice cream....
Some creatures avoid the heat altogether.
Emily and Snickers, tree kangaroos from New Guinea, live in a climate-controlled exhibit where temperatures are kept in the 70s and humidity in the 50s. Yesterday, they were curled up in an afternoon siesta. Not bad for a life in captivity....
As if anyone or anything would ever desire such a thing.
--more--"Hey, what is one more insult from the agenda-pushing paper anyway when they are full of them every day?
Related: The Boston Globe Hates Animals
I have to tell you, they seem to hate everything not Jewish.
"Conditions have many looking for care, relief" by David Abel, Globe Staff | July 7, 2010
For the first time in eight years, the temperature in Boston reached 100 degrees yesterday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service in Taunton, one degree shy of the 1911 record of 101 degrees. It was only the 24th time in more than a century that Boston hit triple digits.
I'm sure they were hollering global warming even then (if true; I no longer take a newspaper's word on anything. The year seems strangely suspicious, as if the heat wave is somehow connected to... 911?).
The weather today is supposed to be hot and humid again, but the high is expected to remain in the low 90s....
Kind of puts a blanket over the agenda, doesn't it, Glob?
--more--"Remember, these are the same people telling you the winter was warm when it set records for cold.
Also see: This Will Cool You Off, America
Just made me hotter.
