Rudy the Critically Endangered Black rhino is one in a melon! 🍉 🦏 Check out this video Animal Care Specialist Ben T. shared of Rudy enjoying another sweet, summer treat and be sure to turn your sound up for some satisfying slurps!
Not to interrupt everyone's social media conversation about space aliens, but I wrote a book about social media and space aliens and @BookBub has it on sale for literally TWO DOLLARS for the next three days: https://t.co/ybfiyAc8Tk
We're thrilled to be part of Celebrate Colorado, a week dedicated to the people who make our state great! From 7/28–8/6, we’re offering 50% off daytime admission AND 50% off memberships with the code DZCelebrateCO. Book your general admission tickets here: https://t.co/gjfuE9hb6R
We are devastated to share that Salix, our Rocky Mountain goat kid, unexpectedly passed away on July 22. This curious little goat was a beloved member of our animal family, and will be dearly missed by all. 🤍 Our full statement can be found here: https://t.co/2fQ0spnw5O
Happy #NationalZookeeperWeek! Today we'd like appreciate the Large Mammal team! This team is made up of the animal care groups that care for the hoofstock animals and the pachyderms.
From the Triassic to today, there have always been more dinosaur species than mammal species in this planet.
We are, in that way at least, still in the age of the dinosaur.
Meet Biscuit, a one-year-old, red-flanked duiker! She has paired up with Chicken, a six-year-old, red-flanked duiker who moved to DZ earlier this year. Biscuit was initially a bit skittish when she arrived, but after meeting Chicken, she’s calmer & adjusting well to her new home.
No, it is not a weird bird-dragon, or a gargoyle but the Scansoriopterygid dinosaur Yi qi
These are some quick studies of this wonderful theropod that lived during the Late Jurassic in Asia
What's really painful about today's media space is that the loudest scandals quickly fade away and slip off the world's attention.
Evan, the American journalist whom absolutely everyone in the Kyiv media community knows personally, is still in Russian captivity.
@johnjparker12 Public education does not exist to benefit parents, or for that matter students. It exists to benefit the social order. As a social order, we pay experts to determine curricular and library content. The experts are not congresspeople or parents; they are teachers and librarians.
"What the Fourth can teach us, however, is how untenable it is to have a chasm between power and the people. The colonists lived in an autocracy with no rights to vote in the affairs of their own country. They were naturally skeptical of unchecked power, and they set in motion a process of representative government that has come to reflect more and more of the nation." --- My thoughts on "Lessons of the Fourth." https://t.co/EIsdDErKPS
Twitter blue users automatically getting the top replies to tweets is not great. That space is very interesting, and it seems to me great for the platform to make sure the most interesting tweets occupy it, but that’s gone now.
The weirdest response to this has been “if healthcare is a human right, then you’re saying you have a right to someone else’s labor, and they must then give it to you for free???” like these people have never heard of public school or police or…roads.
IT'S RIDICULOUS THAT TAMPONS AND TOILET PAPER AREN'T EXEMPT FROM SALES TAX BUT THAT RICH PEOPLE CAN BUY THEIR FANCY-ASS CARS IN MONTANA AND DRIVE THEM BACK TO SEATTLE.
ACTUALLY THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE BIGGER AND MUCH GOVERNMENT WASTE COMES FROM IT BEING FORCED TO WORK WITH PRIVATE CONTRACTORS BECAUSE CERTAIN LEADERS DON'T WANT THERE TO BE MORE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES.