A Measure of Relief

I finally saw a couple of the National Zoo’s beavers, and they seemed to be entirely un-rabid!

Instead they displayed a very healthy and entirely appropriate interest in sticks.

Incidentally, the mystery photo last week was of this:

—Which might not tell you anything, but is basically an image of the zoo’s grey seal rubbing her nose with her flipper while underwater. All those little rippling wavelets produced a very different sort of image.

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