Okay, blog-followers, remember Dr. Parker’s new invention, the scuba-stuffocator (the one KARL broke on his first time using)? Well, the good scientist has been working harder on it, and has run tests on a new remote version of scuba-stuffocation technology. This is great news for the Zoo, as it could lead to more underwater animal [...]
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Hi again! (This is Finn. I’m taking control of the computer while the other guys are out.)
Once again, the animals have been one step ahead of me in my role in the anti-boredom committee. To be fair to me, though, I’m only supposed to be in charge of activities on rainy days, and we haven’t [...]
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It has come to the SZ’s attention that a certain lemur in our midst has grown an exceptionally long tail, and that this tail has been doing strange things.
Melvin has been with us for a little over a year now, and while we love having him here, we are still, as with all our exhibits, [...]
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Boy, there isn’t a minute’s rest at the SZ. The day Karl and I return from Platypus Archipelago, we not only hear of Cromley’s bad behavior, but of a commotion from the primate wing of the zoo! Apparently, many of our stuffed monkeys have been trying to start a band. . . And it’s not [...]
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Hi everyone,
I’m sure it says somewhere that this is V posting this, but it’s actually me, Finn. V and Karl haven’t returned to the SZ from their Platypus thingie yet. But as you may know, I am now in charge of rainy-day activities and anti-boredom acts here at the zoo.
And as I’ve been continuing [...]
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(from the previous entry):
And, after two hours of upward, intense hiking, they reached the summit. Needless to say, they weren’t prepared for what they found there. Hundreds of stuffed animals – everything from snakes to badgers to parrots – were dragging cut stones together, building what what looked it was going to be an enormous [...]
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(told by SZ correspondent Dr. Parker)
With the hull of their boat once again torn, Stuffed Zoo acquisitioners Karl and V survived their first night shipwrecked on Avocado Island, where they’ve been haunted by a palindrome-speaking stuffed monkey, Grunty.
“I wonder what happened to Grunty,” V said. “And I wonder if there are others like him on [...]
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(story told by SZ correspondent Dr. Parker)
. . . It was nearly midnight when the two brave, intrepid acquisitioners landed their small boat on Avocado Island – the southernmost island in the famed Platypus Archipelago. It was a moonless night, and the two had almost missed seeing the island completely. But just before the [...]
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Well, as you know, another season of stuffocating new animals for our exhibits is about to be underway. Of, course, there have been some snags.
Our summer plans included reaching the southern tip of the Platypus Archipelago, by way of the Blue Ink strait. But, as we began packing for our boating trip (taking much advice [...]
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Hi everyone, V here. While Karl and I gear up for another summer season of stuffocation, things at the SZ are coming more alive. Hibernation season is over, and many of our stuffed animals are coming out after a looooong nap. Bleary-eyed and hungry, they rejoin their animal friends:
Ceilia the Stuffed Bear for example, came [...]
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Hi everyone, V here. Karl and I have been away from SZ most of the winter on our rainforest trip (still no sign of the hampster/seal/pig creature, but it continues to appear in my dreams, and I will not give up), and we’re here for just a few weeks before we set out again on [...]
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Hi everyone, Finn again. If you’ve been keeping up with the SZ blog, you know that I’ve just been hired as the SZ’s new Indoor Rainy Day Physical Activity Coalition and Anti-Boredom Committee (I’m only an intern). My first anti-boredom task was to come up with a fun indoor activity that all the animals could [...]
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Hi everyone, Finn here. I am now an intern for SZ’s new Indoor Rainy Day Physical Activity Coalition and Anti-Boredom Committee. It’s my job to come up with fun new ideas for activities the animals can do together on rainy days. You see, normally the chimps are playing basketball, the hippos jump-roping, and so on. [...]
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“So back to my story,” Kilgore the Stuffed Trout continued.
“I said goodbye to my school of friends, got out of an expensive fishing-without-a-license ticket, and sailed by rented boat to the mouth of the Snarquetupple River, out to the Snaylhat Sea. This was where it made sense for a fish to have a boat! Besides [...]
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Hi everyone, V here. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but our in-house rainbow trout, Kilgore, has finally returned from his winter abroad. Of course, there were late nights in the aquatic tanks here at the zoo, with everyone listening in as Kilgore spoke of his long journey.
And now, Kilgore has decided to share his [...]
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Hi everyone, V here. It’s been a while since I checked in at the SZ blog. Believe me, I have been busy. You may remember that, a while back, I began a quest in the rain forest for a mysterious animal that had been haunting my dreams. Well, after much work and little success, Karl [...]
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Manuel, our resident large stuffed Llama, has been away from the zoo for a while. He’s returned now (our zoo is so great, our animals are free to come and go – but they all decide to make their home here), and it’s time to check in.
StuffedZoo: So, Manuel, what have you been up to [...]
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As you may remember from last time, Abby and Jane were locked in the evil Yrrab Newo Cinema, and the projectionist – angry that no one bought his home-made concessions – was filling the room with his awful Asparagus-Beer Float.
As the room filled with the green and un-tasty dessert, Abby, Jane, and everyone else trapped [...]
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After a long day of ice-cream tasting at the local ice cream experimentation facility, or ICEF, Abby and Jane decided to catch a movie. There was a theater in town they’d never been to before, and the pistachio-cheddar-mint crunch they had for lunch left them feeling adventurous.
They entered the Yrrab Newo Cinema at four p.m. [...]
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Our very own in-house Bearded Tamarin – known as Gordon – has a reputation for being a wise and well-traveled primate. He often answers questions with a story, stroking his gray beard-hairs thoughtfully.
But one thing has been bothering the New-World monkey’s disciples: none of Gordon’s stories have to do with the jungle – or South [...]
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I was born an orphan and left on the doorstep of a Catholic church in Fairbanks, Alaska. After my 14th summer of indentured servitude at the orphanage I escaped to a dusty town in west Texas. The next couple of years took me from dishwasher to paperboy to reporter to wildcatter. That was the start of many life adventures including my current job as an acquistioner for the StuffedZoo.com
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