"You cannot imagine how excited I was to come into contact once again with manatees. The Science Chimp's every hair stood on end, she pant-hooted and hugged herself. You see, I have an enormous soft spot for manatees, ever since having shared their space at the Amazonian Research Institute in Manaus, Brazil as a lonely college student in 1979." - Julie Zickefoose, 'Manatee Surprise', www.juliezickefoose.com, 10 Dec 2008.
No! I never met one! It would certainly have helped.
Bilby, you're a Zickefoose fan? Who knew? :-D
Does Julie have manatee idols?
Sarra, you've been a language nerd since forever!
Did you ever become fluent in Chimpanzee?
Heh! I knew, in fact. I owned this when I was small. School book fairs were an invaluable thing.
Darn.
I should put a link to her manatee blog posts because they're touching.
Note to frogapplause: it's not a blog about manties.
"You cannot imagine how excited I was to come into contact once again with manatees. The Science Chimp's every hair stood on end, she pant-hooted and hugged herself. You see, I have an enormous soft spot for manatees, ever since having shared their space at the Amazonian Research Institute in Manaus, Brazil as a lonely college student in 1979."
- Julie Zickefoose, 'Manatee Surprise', www.juliezickefoose.com, 10 Dec 2008.