At the San Diego Zoo, 11-year-old lowland gorilla female Azizi was trying hard to care for her firstborn baby. Frank, a healthy male, was born September 4, 2008. Azizi, who was hand reared, was cradling the infant and keeping him close to her body to provide warmth. Though Frank weighed in at a whop...

I’m gonna need to work my way up to doing that again, truly. Every now and then, when we’ve had a really nice weather weekend in the midst of winter, a bunch of friends would go for a little walk in familiar or unfamiliar areas. The larger the group, the slower we’d make our way pl...

After watching the movie ZOO during one night of insomnia, Irina decided that a Boeing geek who worked on black ops, built guided missile systems and ended up dying of horse intercourse could be a good topic for an episode. ZOO is about Kenneth Pinyan, a Boeing engineer who died “due to acute ...

For some reason I didn't notice until just now that the Portland Zoo insect keeper job is a temporary (May-September) position only. It would be idiotic to leave my wife for a year for a temporary job (considering that it would be pretty hard to get another one at the end of it) so I'm going to let ...

The house sparrow chatter outside makes it sound like it's a beautiful warm spring day. In fact we're getting our traditional March First snowstorm, first of two parts. Today it's light and fluffy but sticking. Tomorrow it's supposed to pile up to nearly a foot. I guess my Texan coworker will get he...

Breaking News - Recession hits Zoo hard - Elephants resort to part time car washing to make up the monies i can halp wash sum carz. picture: dunno source, via our lolcat builder. lol caption: AngelAndz » Recaption This » See All Captions...

Alas, it seems that Sophie Anderton's sex tape never gave the lingerie model quite the boost that, say, Kim Kardashian received from her own... but at least we get to look at her boobs again. · Sophie Anderton Nude Pictures for the Paycheck (egotastic.com)...

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[YouTube - Link] The Oregon Zoo posted this irresistibly sweet video clip of a 5-month old baby Asian elephant named Samudra playing with a ball. I dare you to resist giggling at how cute this is! - via nonminus From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by auswill2k9....

Today marks the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln, the man who most Americans probably regard as our greatest president. However, in the world of cartoons, this doesn't stop the perpetual use of a weird running gag: of having villains constantly try to bring the statue of our 16th president to life....