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2011\/08\/30<\/p>\n

Today I returned to the Toronto Zoo to finish off the part I didn’t have time for the other day, and also visited the Ontario Science Centre<\/a>, a favorite hangout when I was a kid.<\/p>\n

In between I attempted to locate one of the last vestiges of Toby’s Good Eats, home of the second-best dessert ever, but I couldn’t find it.\u00a0 To make up, I went to the Mandarin again for supper. How I wish restaurants like this existed on the west coast!<\/p>\n

More Zoo pictures<\/h2>\n

Spectacled owls:<\/p>\n

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Groundhog – we had these at the farm in Manitoba but I never saw one this close before. They’re cute.<\/p>\n

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Gila monster, just chillin’:<\/p>\n

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Burrowing owl, watching the antics of the groundhogs with apparent consternation:<\/p>\n

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Capybara<\/a>, the largest living rodent species – and most self-possessed:<\/p>\n

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Bored panther is bored:<\/p>\n

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Alert leopard is alert: (I think it liked my bright red shirt)<\/p>\n

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It was very hot today. The poor polar bears did what they could to cope:<\/p>\n

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But it was evidently too much for this bowhead whale:<\/p>\n

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Red panda – cute!<\/p>\n

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Snow leopard – also chillin’:<\/p>\n

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Sleepy tree kangaroo:<\/p>\n

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This tiger was pacing furiously back and forth along a short section of fence. I thought it was because there were tasty yardapes on the other side\u2026<\/p>\n

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… but it turned out there was another tiger on the other side – perhaps it’s sexy time, yes?<\/p>\n

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The Ontario Science Center<\/h2>\n

I was shocked to discover that they close at 6pm – logically they should be open to at least 8pm so families can come after work, right?\u00a0 So I didn’t quite have enough time to see everything, but I got to the important part – the Science Arcade – full of interactive physics demonstrations.\u00a0 This was my favorite part as a kid.<\/p>\n

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I recognized a lot of the old installations still in use, and there were plenty of new ones as well.\u00a0 Sadly, some of my favorites were gone.\u00a0 There was a mechanically remote-controlled robot arm that you could use to stack foam blocks in a sealed room – that was my favorite of all.\u00a0 There was an Eliza<\/a> installation, and a machine that said “coffee” in a great variety of intonations.\u00a0 A pendulum-driven spirograph, a Van de Graaff generator<\/a> and a forest fire fighting computer game. All gone.<\/p>\n

I also like how you ride escalators through a forest to get to and from the bulk of the exhibits:<\/p>\n

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