#mixotrophics robot zoo time

[mixotrophics]

I Need to get a copy of The Robot Zoo book. I had one as a kid. I read that thing back-to-front and front-to-back more times than I can count. & it's pretty hard to get high-quality pics of the inside of it -- even more so that an exhibit related to it opened up somewhere at some point, so most img results I'm getting are of the exhibit. Which is cool, but not The Book.

just. just Look at this!!

allegedly, as a kid, I taught myself to draw by copying out of medical/zoological anatomy books. I bought a secondhand copy of Grey's Anatomy for nostalgia purposes for this reason. you can see why a kid who was like that would b losing their mind over the robot zoo

I remember it going pretty in-depth with a lot of this stuff as well. How viruses infect cells, animal digestive quirks, echolocation basics... it was a goldmine for a baby zoologist and also what Cool and whimsical robots!!

It looks like the museum exhibit copies some pages from the book wholesale & puts them on a dark background for the info plaques, which adds up, because the illustrations & info were the whole draw of the book.., so pages I can't find, sometimes there's someone's blogspot or smth that went to the museum & took photos.

This is a beastie from the exhibit but look at this fly!! The compound eyes! The sopping-up-fluids mouthparts!

so anyway I got a used 5£ copy off ebay bc I need to look at the creatures. Might make posts re:the info, it's from the 90's so there's GOTTA be some interesting updates in our understanding of some things discussed within.