{"id":3793,"date":"2013-05-06T21:24:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T19:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpethzprd.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2024-02-20T13:40:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T11:40:34","slug":"the-spring-menagerie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/2013\/05\/06\/the-spring-menagerie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spring menagerie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think readers can legitimately complain that not only have I not added a new post for a long time, but more schockingly, my last animal-related one <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/2012\/03\/11\/the-rights-of-frogs-of-toads\/\">goes back more than one year<\/a>. So, to celebrate the recent belated <i>aper\u00e7us<\/i> of spring in Z\u00fcrich and around, here are some pictures:<\/p>\n<p>The first two are cheating, since they come from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoo.ch\/xml_1\/internet\/en\/application\/d401\/d415\/d2095\/f696.cfm\">Masoala Hall<\/a> &#8212; but the first one illustrates the beautiful views from the very new canopy walk:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN33982.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN33982-1024x855.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN33982-1024x855.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN33982-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN33982.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>while the second is a rarely-seen lizard<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3419.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3419-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3419-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3419-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3419.jpg 1824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next comes a well-camouflaged bird, this one from a park in Graz<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3576.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3576-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3576-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3576.jpg 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and another one from the aforementioned canopy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3682.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3682-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3682-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3682-727x1024.jpg 727w, https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3682.jpg 912w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>after which come a frog,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3721.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3721-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3721-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3721-1024x826.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3721.jpg 1122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>a snail,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3726.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3726-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3726-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3726-1024x956.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3726.jpg 1038w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and more frogs:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3732.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3732-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3732-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3732-1024x688.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3732.jpg 1410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3752.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3752-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3752-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3752-1024x865.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/files\/2013\/05\/DSCN3752.jpg 1188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully more animal pictures will come before a year passes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think readers can legitimately complain that not only have I not added a new post for a long time, but more schockingly, my last animal-related one goes back more than one year. So, to celebrate the recent belated aper\u00e7us of spring in Z\u00fcrich and around, here are some pictures: The first two are cheating, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/2013\/05\/06\/the-spring-menagerie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Spring menagerie<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2331,1392,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-switzerland","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}