{"id":1500,"date":"2009-11-30T23:51:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T22:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickonedwards.co.uk\/diary\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2009-12-01T16:39:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T15:39:55","slug":"endangered-species-in-their-natural-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/endangered-species-in-their-natural-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered Species In Their Natural Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mum returns from a quilting trip in Kenya (including a proper safari) and sends me a few photos.<\/p>\n

This is a Rothschild Giraffe called Laura. Funnily enough, I visited the eponymous Walter Rothschild’s museum of stuffed animals in Tring a few weeks ago. Favourite exhibits included the elephant seal high up in the dark on top of the display cases, underlit as if he were on a stage reciting a soliloquy. Plus two fleas dressed as Mexican farmers, a gynandromorph bird – male on one side, female on the other – and a bowler hat containing a wasps’ nest. 45 minutes from Euston.<\/p>\n

This photo isn’t a trick of perspective – Laura really is that big a girl.<\/p>\n

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Orphaned baby elephants, wearing blankets for heatstroke because they have no parent to shelter under:<\/p>\n

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And left over in the family camera from a few months ago, an example of flaneur dickonsius<\/em>, grazing.\u00c2\u00a0 Taken by Dad at the Paddington Bear stall in Paddington Station.<\/p>\n

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Mum returns from a quilting trip in Kenya (including a proper safari) and sends me a few photos. This is a Rothschild Giraffe called Laura. Funnily enough, I visited the eponymous Walter Rothschild’s museum of stuffed animals in Tring a few weeks ago. Favourite exhibits included the elephant seal high up in the dark on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[244,242,245,243],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kenya","tag-lazily-posting-photos-because-i-want-an-early-night","tag-mum","tag-tring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}