Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Acorn and Zucchini

The Columbus Zoo has two beavers, sisters Acorn and Zucchini.

A beaver scratches herself.
Scratching. Check out the long fingers.
The beaver pond is pretty small.
The enclosure has a shelter (not visible) and a small pond at one end.
A beaver swims.
One side of the pond is glass, so we can see underwater action.
One of the famous parts of a beaver.
Zucchini eats a snack. She's dry.
This is Zucchini, and she hasn't been in the water for a while.
Acorn is fresh from a swim.

Acorn was amusing. She'd pick-up a food nugget with her right paw, inspect it extremely briefly, pass it to her left paw, and drop it on the ground until she found one that met her standard. The video doesn't show that, that but she does pick one up, and there's a small pile of nuggets on the ground.


2 comments:

  1. Very nice. Love the addition of a video, too!

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  2. Thank you. The camera came with video support, but I wasn't interested. Then I came upon situations that called for video instead of stills, so I started using video mode. I didn't think quickly enough (happens often) to get Acorn's nugget inspections in video, but the video I did get plus some text tells the story.

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