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When my sister was little and learning English, she didn’t always grasp the entirety of metaphors. So, upon observing a messy space, she would announce, “This room is a pig!”

{A note: I do write all text and take all pictures. Please do not reproduce either without my permission.}

It's Too Darn Hot

[a basking boar]

Yes, I understand that it’s summer in DC; enough people have told me about the season—in what I consider to be overly smug tones, I might add—that I knew it would be hot and muggy until September. But in the past few days temperatures have reached near-record highs across the entire east coast, DC included, and I can complain if I want to, dammit: it’s really HOT.

Most of the animals at the zoo seem to feel it, too (though not all—stay tuned for more aviary reports). Only humans like me are dumb enough to deliberately wander around outside in order to look at other animals looking hot—or trying to stay cool, as in the case of this peccary (aka javelina), which decided to lie indoors where the air was cool and the light was low and I couldn’t get a decent photo of it.


Of course, if you’re an animal with a certain degree of ingenuity, and a trunk, you can also do things to make yourself cooler.


If spray doesn’t work, there’s always the total-submersion method.


And once you feel refreshed enough to get some energy back, why not engage in some water sports?


I’d write more, but I was taking those photos in full sunlight, and I think I need a cold shower. Or possibly an ice bath.