Field Notes

Educational Photowalk

IMG_7667 Poison Dart Frog from Central America.

I don't understand why the Texas Discovery Gardens has almost nothing from Texas in it.

I'm also not entirely sold on the idea that looking at an animal in a plastic box is educational. I wonder if, in the future, zoos will be AI-controlled holograms. That way, you could walk among the tigers and not get eaten, and no real tigers would become depressed weirdos who live in a pen for our amusement.

I mean, education.

IMG_7683 Polka Dot Begonia from Central America.

I don't have a problem with importing plants, as long as it's not kudzu. Most of our crops are imported. The whole 'this isn't native' thing isn't a moral issue for me, where plants are concerned.

You can get a polka dot begonia like this from Home Depot.

IMG_7716 Sara Longwing Butterfly, Central America.

Did you know butterflies taste with their feet? Me neither.

I guess I learned something after all.