#escape from the zoo

[lesboslibra]

In progress of the barbed wire embroidered border for my back patch

I still remember how a year ago I was thinking about giving this vest away because I just couldn't see myself ever feeling comfortable wearing it, and now it's starting to get spiked/studded out and patched up I never want to let it go

Might post full vest pics when I'm done

[studmuffinzine]

Yes that is a sock puppet! They passed them out to the crowd too! AND yes that is pure magic coming from Veronica's microphone in the second picture!

[spacekid-lox]

…

Now that the fogs rolled out,

I see how deeply flawed I used to be

And I’m by no stretch perfect now

But at least I posses the tools to

Take a step back

(Get some perspective)

Know where your heads at

(Take a deep breath)

Just think things through

(Take a second to relax)

…

But still some days I feel like smashing this guitar

Going 12 rounds at the brick wall

I wanna see them knuckles

Ble

e

e

d

.

Wanna fly right off the handle

Chug a fifth, shatter the bottle.

But that kind of being destructive don’t

solve anything.

[daily-folkpunk]

DAY 90: ESCAPE FROM THE ZOO: 12 ROUNDS

[ineedanameineedaname]

I hope Escape From The Zoo is OK

I understand the married couple-fronted group had some weird shit go down about 3 months ago. I wish the best for Jesse, one of their frontpeople, and his wife Veronica, and I hope they can continue their tour.

Or maybe I'm thinking of Jesse and Veronica touring with Days n' Daze?

Either way, I hope the best for those two's musical pursuits. I'm into their stuff right now and am in love with both of them I think, which I think is a lot of the appeal.

EDIT: wanna add that Veronica is their other front person. I'm high and had an idea about going more into Jesse as an artist so I provided more detail, but that idea was lost.

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

hi, i wanted to ask what you think about those japanese zoo's training exercises were someone dresses up as an animal and pretends to have escaped and all that, are they effective? what do U.S zoo's do to train for things like that?

They look silly, but they're a real emergency drill! They force people to think through how they'd problem-solve in real time and in the physical space, which is a very different experience than just thinking about it.

There's no consistent requirement for emergency drills in the US federal regulations for zoos, but there is a contingency planning one. Facilities licensed by the USDA have to identify and create plans for addressing likely emergencies they may have to deal with, which is everything from like natural disasters to animal escapes. That's all done as paperwork and provided to the government to prove they've done it.

BUT. That doesn't mean that zoos and other animal facilities don't do more planning on their own. Some of the third-party accreditations (it might be all of them but I don't have the docs in front of me to confirm) require regular drills for all types of emergency scenarios.

Now there's a slight problem there - a real escape drill, run fully on grounds with real people and stand-in animal, interferes with the daily operations of the zoo. You might not have to physically shut all the guests into buildings during a practice leopard escape, but you do need them to not get in the way, and you don't want to scare people who think a drill is real, etc. So there's an alternate option.

US zoos frequently run emergency management drills as TTRGPs!

Like, they use a printed scale map of the zoo and roll dice to randomize the situation. This is absolutely recommended as a strategy by the Zoo and Aquariums All Hazard Partnership: there's a whole webpage about it, including instructions for the Drill Master.

There are in-person drills, of course, because you have to practice dealing with these problems in meatspace. But a lot of them are done tabletop! I cannot express the extent of my mirth when I first encountered this in the wild at a conference about a decade ago, when the idea was really taking off. It was Very Serious Zoo People on a Very Serious Topic about preventing Really Bad Things from happening... and then suddenly there was a d20 on the screen.

[blairamok]

job interview tomorrow at the zoo, wish me luck!!!

[langernameohnebedeutung]

[mariana-oconnor]

Sometimes you'll be reading a fic set in the UK and then they talk about seeing a raccoon and you have to take a second to just blink and work out how to accept that before you keep reading.

[florallylly]

completely idiotic concept but zookeepers stobin who mainly deal with the penguins but the penguins are the party who are the penguins of madagascar. does this make sense.... and yes i only mean the four boys like max and el are regular people

[krookodyke]

the dichotomy of amanda & hoffman is so funny because amanda has been in slavery in egypt for the past 400 years and has just been exiled by the pharaoh meanwhile hoffman is eating a full rotisserie chicken and potato wedges from ShopRite on the floor by himself with a stale sprite

[little-shadow-club]

Suho slowly getting brainwashed the more he exchanges fluids with Tiel send tweet

[spacekid-lox]

Ignore the voices,

You’re fuckin’ worth it.

Mistakes are how you grow and don’t become a shitty person.

…

Learnin’ Curve, Escape From the ZOO

[daily-folkpunk]

DAY 7: ESCAPE FROM THE ZOO - WASTED YEARS

[disgustedorite]

unusual roadkill I saw today: african wild dog

I don't live anywhere near africa