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This Lemur at the Portland zoo has a very intense stare!
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some Hamerkop snaps from the Portland Zoo's African Aviary!
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Wild Wild Earth - Zooliner at The Portland Zoo - June 2004
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the majority of animals currently in captivity would not be able to survive in the wild if released. they would die almost immediately because they couldn’t feed themselves or find water and would be more vulnerable to predators. there’s no other solution for those animals that would keep the animal alive. if you genuinely cared about the animals, you would stop centering yourself, do your due diligence to research the circumstances of each rescue, and volunteer or go into a field to help these animals in a way that actually matters and genuinely does something to make their lives better.
#g talks#was thinking about the campaign to get one of my zoo’s elephants released#she’s on ‘loan’ in a sense from borneo#she’s not even ‘ours’#we have no jurisdiction for something like that#we made a deal to take he bc she was injured#and our zoo could house her and give her proper care#she’s perfectly healthy#has many friends#and the zoo has only continued to improve their elephant meadow#yet these posers and peta dumbasses in portland are still petitioning the zoo#like???#where we gonna put her??#fuck outta here#mine#/mobile#/okay to reblog
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Portland Zoo, Oregon. Love seeing monkey expressions, way better models than humans imo.
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River otters at the Oregon Zoo, 4-24-22
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I don’t know if anyone will know what I’m talking about, but in 2016/17 I got a membership at the Oregon zoo and they gave us a card with a picture of an otter with a really big nose. The nose was big because it was the main focus of the camera. If anyone has a picture of that card I would be forever grateful
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Events in Portland for JULY 2023
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Here are Shawn Realty’s top picks of events for this month. Let the summer activities begin!
1. Comedy In The Park
📅 July 7-28, 6:30 PM | 📍 Laurelhurst Park | 💵 Free
Laugh your hearts out every Friday evening of July at the Comedy in the Park, a free stand-up show hosted by Julia Corral + Jaren George. The show starts at 6:30 p.m.
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#activities in portland#cathedral park jazz festival#comedy in the park#mississippi street fair#Oregon#oregon zoo#Portland#Portland Events#rose cup races#Shawn Realty#things to do in oregon#Things To Do in Portland#zoo nights
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this guy i've been talking to is soooo cute i'm going to kill myself
#i visited portland over my days off and he took me to the zoo & the japanese gardens & everywhere we went was so pretty#he has guinea pigs and chickens too they were too good. itty bitty#hes visiting me at the end of the week & we're gonna cosplay geto and gojo to the beach 💪🙏#in our shitty matching hawaiian shirts and cargo pants fits
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PDX insectarium was on a news segment!
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hey i'm gonna be in Portland, OR in October for the eclipse.
Anything fun/spooky to do?
We have a high concentration of goth, occult, horror, weird science, fantasy and vulture culture businesses! Some of the most famous are:
Paxton Gate, a store with two locations that specializes in biological specimens, ethically sourced as they essentially "rescue" and rehabilitate unwanted taxidermy, laboratory surplus and decommissioned museum specimens. It's basically a museum itself, just one where technically everything is for sale:
The Skeleton Key, a store that's also museum-like and also sells some bones and strange taxidermy but also strange vintage toys and local gothic art, apparently it just moved to a bigger location and became even more of a museum style attraction:
The Peculiarium is a gallery of artwork and a handful of jokey exhibits like Grunkle Stan's Mystery Shack
The Fernie Brae is an all fairy-themed shop and art gallery, which also displays some props and production materials from Labyrinth and the Dark Crystal:
We've still never been to the Portland Puppet Museum because of its odd hours, I think for years you had to actually call and schedule a visit but they might have regular opening times now:
And the Insectarium which has both preserved specimens and a whole live arthropod zoo
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So this is a piece of good news that I have a small stake in. The Oregon silverspot butterfly (Speryeria zerene hippolyta) once flew along the coast from San Mateo County in California to my stomping grounds up here on the Long Beach Peninsula in extreme southwest Washington. As with many herbivorous insects, the caterpillar of this species has a very limited diet--in fact, the only thing it can eat is the leaves of the early blue violet (Viola adunca). The violets grow in coastal meadows where they get plenty of sun; unfortunately, due to fire suppression and development, most of these meadows are either heavily damaged or no longer exist. And no violets means no butterflies.
Today, the last wild populations include four sites in Oregon and one in Northern California. Over the past few decades conservationists have been working to protect and restore coastal meadows, and both the Oregon Zoo in Portland and the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle have active breeding programs for Oregon silverspots. The caterpillars are raised in captivity, and then when they pupate they are placed in suitable release sites. Some of these are in established populations, but they have also more recently been reintroduced to parts of their historic range where they had been extirpated, such as Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge and Saddle Mountain in Oregon.
This latest release is the largest at Saddle Mountain, with over 2000 silverspot pupae being released there. It's also the site closest to where I am--maybe fifty miles away as the butterfly soars--and people here have been preparing for years for either a planned release or the natural dispersal of butterflies. Willapa National Wildlife Refuge has been engaged in multiple habitat restoration projects over the years, and this includes a restored meadow with a large patch of early blue violets. The farm owned by my friends that I live on also has extensive early blue violet plantings, and there's also a commercial native plant nursery on site that includes the violets as part of their seasonal offerings.
It is my hope that within my lifetime I will get to see the Oregon silverspot flying here on the peninsula. The latest Saddle Mountain release makes it that much more likely that my hope will become reality.
#Oregon silverspot butterfly#butterflies#Lepidoptera#Saddle Mountain#Oregon#Pacific Northwest#Washington#PNW#endangered species#extinction#violets#habitat restoration#wildflowers#scicomm#science communication#animals#wildlife#invertebrates#nature#ecology
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Portland Zoo, Oregon. They just sat there, staring at me, for what felt like hours.
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What's Duckies transition like to Portland or after Magda and Pernille leave Chelsea?
Going to America was very strange for Duckie but she was very brave because Jessie persuaded her with more trips to the zoo and maybe a duck for herself when she got a bit older.
Portland was a little different to London but Duckie's ready for everything with her Mama and her little duck backpack
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