mnamosyna (rachael)

Not sure if I'm going to embed the link right but everyone needs to see Bat-Erdene lose a fight to a pumpkin.  😂😂😂

His proud little walk with the pumpkin. 🤩 His repeated attempts to shove it into his house. 😆 The dismay in his eyes when it falls.  😅

Just saw on the zoo's Instagram that Makari has moved into his outdoor enclosure and is available for viewing!  Wisconsin is a liiiiitle far from me, but I hope there's a few Midwestern manulovers who can make him feel welcome and pass along my greetings from his brothers.  💚

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I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR HOW SOFT THEY ARE!  😍😍  THEY'RE LIKE SQUEEZING A CLOUD!  

I had to buy two (plus a stool 😅) in order to meet the minimum order amount for shipping... 😆

Mother Nature seems to always know when I'm planning a manul pilgrimage and sends me rain.  Smithsonian, Prospect Park, and now Elmwood Park... every time rain!  And today it wasn't just rain but a full nor'easter!

Fortunately and surprisingly, I did get to see both of the boys!

The Elmwood Park Zoo Instagram account has been posting tons of videos of Kasper and Reza that people should definitely check out if they haven't seen them.  The boys are full of character, and they seem to have very dedicated and caring keepers!

(Also I should be taking another trip to visit them at the end of the month, and I can't wait!)

Thanks to our supreme overlord Jeff Bezos 🙄 I now own a second manul plushie, yay!

Here she is sitting on my previous plush, who I have obviously named Zelenogorsk.  I think I will name this one after my best girl, Poes!  😁

I'd been trying to wait until the weather got cooler, but I had a few days off this week with nothing special to do and got impatient so I decided to make a manul pilgrimage to Elmwood Park Zoo to try to see Kasper and Reza in their new home.

It's a small zoo, but nice! Seems clean and well-maintained. It's pretty much right off the Pennsylvania Turnpike so even though it's farther than Prospect Park for me, it's probably easier to get to.

Found the manul enclosure between the North American porcupine and red-tailed hawk. All three enclosures look new and aren't on the zoo map yet so I presume this space was built just for Kasper and Reza. ☺️ And just look how nice and big it is! Both sides belong to them.

I arrived a little after the zoo opened at 10. When I first got there, a keeper was cleaning the enclosure. She said they should be out once she was done. Sure enough, almost immediately after she disappeared, someone emerged! I'm not sure if it was Kasper or Reza though. He looked very handsome and skinny in his nice summer coat. 😁 He also looked quite young to me, which I guess at 3 he still is!