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Animals

Taipei Zoo by Day Ziga Zaga Club by Night

April 30, 2011 Animals

On our last day of adventures in Taipei, we began with a visit to the Taipei Zoo.  This is no small place, and I’m sure we walked a few miles.  It is half a mile from just the front gate to the animals.  The zoo design categorizes animals by continent.  Sometimes there are two or [...]

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Roosters, Not Hens

February 7, 2011 Animals

So many times when we have a party or dance, there aren’t nearly as many men as there are women.  This is not the case with chickens.  It is hard to find a person raising chickens that hasn’t had to try to find a home for a rooster at least once, whether that home be [...]

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I Think I Saw a Lazuli Bunting

May 6, 2010 Animals

My husband has taught us all to look out the window once in a while.  This week it paid off because we got to observe multiple cute birds feasting in the dandelion patches in the lawn just beyond the back patio.  Tuesday it was house finches, including a predominantly pinkish-red male.  I tried to step [...]

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