We went to the American Museum of Natural History yesterday, thinking Poldy might enjoy it. He sure did, but the museum itself is amazingly old-school, packed with dusty stuffed animals in half-arsed dioramas - but still sort of fun - perhaps mainly because of watching Poldy squeal and run from exhibit to exhibit, saying 'am'mals'. Also the dancing (Poldy's) to traditional Andean horn music was kinda funny (video to come soon, hopefully).
There's some pretty impressive taxidermy there, but it's also pretty sad - looking at a whole frozen pride of lions and wondering if they were really the one pride, once. Does visiting this place inspire people towards conservation? I don't really think so. And would it not be better just to go to a zoo and see these same animals, actually alive?
On a similar, conservation/environment note, I was sick to my stomach this morning when the morning news/chat show did a segment on recycling - this amazing town in somewhere-or-other, where everybody does it! You keep your recyclables separate, and put them in their own wheelie bin! Imagine! And to make things even worse, the people in this town were doing it because they were paid to. Any optimism I may have had left that we could get it together in time to stop the world from carking it has taken a serious hit since I went to the supermarket here and got everything in double plastic bags.
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