#Akron zoo

[pick-a-plush]

[dglvr1760]

Okay

so I was volunteering at this even and you'll never guess who I ran into-

Hello?????

And here r some more animals,

Heheheh have a good night!

(I have a botany paper due at midnight bleh)

[the-unicorns-of-nienna]

A carousel kangaroo from the Conservation Carousel at the Akron Zoo in Ohio.

[Image Description: a photograph of a red kangaroo carousel animal. She has a joey peeking out of her pouch, and is wearing a purple saddle emblazoned with a rainbow. End image description.]

Image Source: https://carousels.org/psp/AkronZoo/100_4155.html

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

140A9885 by Mark Dumont

[sillimancer]

I always forget Drew Carey is from Ohio and like not only Ohio but specifically my part of Ohio

[theheartnexttophan]

Month-in-Rephiew: October 2024

So @danrifics mentioned (x) that October 2024 was one of the greatest months in Phandom history, and I was was thinking about how literally so much happened it was hard to keep up, so here’s a day by day breakdown of the month with all the stuff Dan and Phil did! This isn’t intended to be a proper archive, just a memory refresher (go look at @danandphilupdates or @terribleinfluence-tour to see all the posts archived). I might try to do this each month from now on, as I find it helpful to be able to look back on!

Phil tweet: phone wallpaper

Dan retweet: dropped beads, PJ mentioned Phil’s “all pleasure now”,

LGBTQ+ Public Figures survey + Dan retweet

People Interview Preview, 2 Phil Instastories: Seattle

YourEx Interview

Phil retweet: carrying tabinof in pocket, 5 Dan Instastories: 3 Football game, repost of Last Disco hat from Phil, tour promo graphic, 4 Phil Instastories: 2 Football game, repost of Dan from football game, Dan in Last Disco hat, People Interview, DanAndPhilBEATS: Spooky Week, TIT: Seattle (1st in America)

Joint Insta post (with People Magazine): Interview (+Dan comment), Dan Instastory: People Interview, Phil Instastory: People Interview, Fan pics at Target, TIT: Seattle

OUR BIG GAY PROM NIGHT- Dan and Phil play The Sims 4: Season 2 #16, 2 Dan Instastories: Phortland, International phlesbian day (also a tweet), TIT: Portland

2 Phil Instastories: DanAndPhilBEATS (also tweet), Lowave (also tweet), TIT: Vancouver

Fan pics from airport

DAPG Community post: DanAndPhilBEATS, TIT: Oakland

2 Dan Instastories: Pharamount, iPad (and tweet and DAPG community post)

Dan TikTok: Married Life, (also Instastory), 2 Phil Instastories: 2 DnP Cocktails, TIT: Phoenix

Phil retweet: one second of every post hiatus DAPG vid, Fan pics from San Diego Zoo

Joint Insta post: West coast photodump, 5 Phil Instastories: photodump, plane, sunset Phil pic, DDR, landscape passing while driving 3 Dan Instastories: photodump, Phil in cafe, game at arcade

POPPY PLAYTIME ANIMATION! Dan and Phil (+Phil Instastory about it), 2 Fan pics from in the street, TIT: San Diego,

3 Dan Instastories: elevator doors, theatre picture, Ranboo, Phil Instastory: repost from venue, TIT: Los Angeles

Phanniversary, Phanpocalypse, Phandom Gives Livestream, No but seriously imagine it

Phil tweet: Dan’s reflective trousers (+Dan reply), TIT: Salt Lake City

Gays Against Humanity (+Phil Instastory about it), Phan #1 on Ships list, TIT: Denver

1 Video shoutout, Phil retweet: DAPG anniversary art, Phil Instastory: newlywed game questions

Fan pics at restaurant (from previous night), 3 video shoutouts, TIT: Kansas City

3 Phil Instastories: Puppies, Bucees promo for Austin, repost of puppies art, TIT: Grand Prairie

15th anniversary of Pinof, Take me back to 2009 merch, Our Phanniversary Newlyweds Game, TIT: Austin

1 video shoutout

Dan and Phil in The Backrooms (+Dan Instastory), Phil Instastory: Gay halloween bedsheets, TIT: St. Louis,

Dan and Phil ADOPT A BABY, TIT: Detroit,

Phil reblog of merch inspired pumpkin, Don’t Yap Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE) A Quiet Place: The Game, TIT: Akron

Dan and Phil play Five Nights at Freddy’s: THE JOY OF CREATION, joint Insta post: 2009 merch, 2 Dan Instastories: merch, repost of opposing fringes gravestones, TIT: Indianapolis

1 Phil Instastory: editing video, Halloween Baking- RADIOACTIVE MUG CAKES, Joint Insta post: good omens costumes (also posted on tumblr and twitter), 2 Dan Instastories: good omens post, good omens pic at bar, 3 fan pics from bar

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Speaking of mobility in zoos, the Fort Worth zoo was kind of notorious for having a steep hill leading up to its big cat exhibit that was very difficult for anyone in a regular wheelchair to ascend. I think they've done something with it in the new renovation but I haven't been to check yet. Have you heard anything about it?

I remember that hill! I think I just saw a post that the new renovation of that area is opening in like… a week? I’m hoping to use the cyborg mask y’all helped fund to go to a meeting there in October so I’ll report back.

It’s interesting, because long hills can be reasonably accessible if they’re graded correctly and have places to stop and stand that are flat, and places to sit. I barely noticed the slope at the zoo in Akron because of good design like that, but Omaha’s are always such a slog and there’s no benches anywhere.

[themesopelagiczone]

in 1991, nasa launched about 2,500 moon jelly polyps into space. they wanted to see how developing in zero-gravity would affect jellyfish behaviour back on earth. by the end of the mission, there were about 60,000 jellyfish orbiting earth - they'd gotten BUSY up there.

essentially, the way humans tell which way is up and which is down is a bunch of tiny crystals on a bunch of tiny hairs in our ears. the crystals roll around and move the hair cells, which signals directions to our brain. jellyfish have similar crystal-hairs around their bells (the umbrella-looking bit), so knowing how jellyfish responded to 0G development would help us figure out how humans would do in a similar scenario!

results found that, once returned to earth, the moon jellies had trouble getting around. they had vertigo and couldn't tell up from down, and sort of looked drunk, if moon jellies could get drunk. doesn't bode too well for us, i think.

NOVA | the atlantic | jellyfishart.com

photos: ume-y (flickr) | akron zoo

[galaxywarp]

Have you been to the columbus zoo lately? I haven't since i was a kid

ouuuugh i havent been to the zoo at all this summer.....maybe i should go up to akron............

[a-small-writer-in-a-big-world]

Hello!!! Would you please be able to write 141 with a reader from Ohio? Like they ask her where she's from and she tells them Ohio and they're like 👁👄👁

Yeah! I’m from West Virginia, so I wonder what they would think about there too lol

A reader from Ohio in the 141

“Where?”

They have no idea where Ohio is or what Ohio is they are lacking in the geographical information about the American Midwest

If you tell them it’s hell they’ll probably believe you

Price might say it isn't that bad but when he visits you he retracts his statement

They all get pissed about the traffic and about the constant construction

You took them to Columbus and they liked it, especially when you took them to the zoo

They’ve never seen so many corn fields in their life and they never wish to see them again

You also took them to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland one time, they all liked that

If you asked them to stay they’d stay but only because it’s you, otherwise they probably wouldn’t even have considered it

A/N: I realized writing this that I’ve only ever been to Columbus and Akron. Never been to Cleveland before.

[reelaroundthedavekan]

So I have facebook container turned on so it has a very hard time figuring out what I might like, here are a few of today's topics that it thought I would enjoy:

Whittling

Groucho Marx

The Dream Syndicate (band?)

The Sloth Preservation Society

Corgi Lovers

The Buffalo Zoo (this is probably their best guess)

The St. Louis Zoo

The Akron Zoo

[stepfordgoth]

Long story short, today I was in the building of a company that has been a huge part of my city for over a hundred years but has just been absorbed by another company recently and is in the process of moving out of the building. My husband used to work there and he's helping clear things out and I accompanied him today. As I wandered around I noticed a lot of art throughout the giant now-empty space that was just.... tacky. or boring or just, meh, typical soulless office art, you know? But then there was this statue in a sitting area outside the meeting rooms that my husband was sooo giddy to show me because it was so awful. Just..... Really fucking ugly. I think it was called "the beast" or something like that and sure enough that thing is a beast! I didn't like it and I didn't want to keep looking at it tbh so I moved along and kinda forgot about it.

But now for some reason I'm sitting here hours later thinking about it and the fact that "the beast" literally made me feel something. Almost disgust, you know? Not quite fear but a certain kind of uneasy anxiety. Dread, maybe. And thinking of that hours later, I realized that's, like, the point of art right? That's a piece of art that stood out to me among all the other art I saw in that building because it made me feel something, even if it was ugly and the feeling was gross and uncomfortable lol. I wish I would've paid more attention to it and taken note of the artist's name and maybe taken some photos of it.

So i went down a small rabbit hole looking for a photo of the statue online - the offices have been in my city for a long time, I thought maybe someone would have a photo of this fucking ugly thing somewhere, and I think i remember the artists first name was Judy. It was worth a shot to google it - and I did not find a photo of it but I did find that there was a sculptor named Judy Zemnick in my area who got mauled by a fucking polar bear at the Brookside Zoo in Cleveland, Ohio in 1938 when she was 21 years old, and lived! I haven't read anything that necessarily says that she continued to make art after the attack (other than her being quoted after the incident as saying "all I want is to get back to my artwork"*), but there's very little information about her online at all after 1940.

So here's what I think ...... I bet the ugly awful statue I saw today was poor Judy Zemnick's work and I bet that specific statue was DIRECTLY influenced by "the beast", as the local newspaper* referred to the polar bear who almost killed her. I have no way of proving it - and even if that is a Judy Zemnick statue it could be pure coincidence, maybe she even made "the beast" before the bear incident? Would that be fucked up or what - and it literally means nothing either way but I feel a weird emotional/spiritual connection or something here lol. I hope if no one takes the statue home (everyone in the office hates that thing apparently) it gets donated to the akron art museum or something. I hope it doesn't just get thrown in the trash! That being said I am not inviting that thang and it's aura into my house either lol

I'm gonna have my husband take pictures of the statue and plaque for me when he goes in on Monday. I'll update this post with photos. I wonder if it will be as weird in photo as in person. I also kinda wonder if I'm being crazy lol

*there is record of the original 1938 article from the local newspaper online but it's behind a paywall. This page is where I'm getting all my information, but heads up it's kind of an uncomfortable read (for me at least, when it started to describe the incident and her injuries I kinda felt sick). Which, tbh, really mirrors the uncomfortable feeling of that damn statue!

[breha]

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[redpandazine]

Akron Zoo's Red Panda Penny, Star of Social Media Series "Panda Palace", Dies After Illness

👉 https://www.akronzoo.org/news/beloved-akron-zoo-red-panda-passes-away

[boydyker]

trick or treat!

HI ETHO !!!!!! you get....

clawdia the lobster from the akron zoo!!!

[thebreakfastgenie]

Sorry for sounding like a snob the phrase “Ohio State Zoo” is just very funny to me because there are four excellent zoos in Ohio—Toledo, Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland—and the Akron Zoo is very small but I’ve heard good things. There’s also an excellent safari park called The Wilds that does a lot of rehab and has rescued animals from bad living conditions.