The Wild Word
Creature comforts, animal antics, and everything zoo-adjacent.
The Watering Hole
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Your Zoo Obsession? The Animals Noticed Too
There are two kinds of people in this world. People who walk through the zoo and think "oh, nice giraffe." And people who stop at the giraffe enclosure, lock eyes with a fully grown ruminant, and feel ~ deeply, and without a single apology ~ completely understood. -
Animal Obsessed? You Found Your People
You know that specific feeling ~ the one where you spot an animal doing something with complete, unjustified confidence, and you think: that is me, actually. A flamingo rolling into a skate park like she owns it. A tiger cutting through a wave with zero regard for anything. -
7 Animal Facts So Weird They Can't Be Real
You already knew animals were running things behind the scenes. What you maybe did not know is that the science backs you up completely. -
7 Weird Animal Facts That Prove Nature Is Absurd
You think you know animals. You've been to the zoo. You've watched the documentaries. You've nodded along like you had it figured out.
Latest Articles
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Join the Jungle Jam Session ~ Inside the Animal Band World Tour
Nobody announced this tour. One morning the binturong loaded her drum kit into the van, the parrot tuned something with far too many strings, and an itinerary landed on my desk with a note that said start printing. So I started printing. The Animal Band World Tour is the collection that came out of that van: animal musicians treated as exactly what they are, which is working musicians with dates to play and opinions about the monitor mix. -
Somebody Has to Hold Down the Low End
I handle the high notes around here. Always have. (A parrot's solo will change music forever, and I intend to be the one holding the guitar when it happens.) But a jam session is not a solo act, and every band sooner or later asks the big question: who is keeping the groove steady underneath all my brilliance? -
Peek-a-Zoo ~ The Pop-Out Crew: The Animals Who Found the Edge of the Print
Somewhere along the line, an animal looked at the bottom edge of a printed tee and recognized it for what it truly is: a windowsill. A balcony. Front-row seating with excellent sightlines. Peek-a-Zoo ~ The Pop-Out Crew is the collection where those animals report for duty, paws hooked over the hem, eyes already locked on whatever you were about to do without them.
