Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many other great questions in her book, The Bird Watching Answer Book. (For the ...
It’s open from 10am-5pm daily and has attractions for all age groups including snow leopards, rare tigers, gibbons, deer otters, crocodiles in a swamp house, aviaries, waterfowl, a gift shop and café.
Well into Advent, well into the run-up to Christmas, the lawns in town and the ranchers’ pastures that stretched across the prairie to the east were bare, uncovered in their winter poverty. Naked in ...