Friday Chat w/ Vlad

Hey, it’s Vlad. Happy Friday…not. So rain has returned to the center. Normally this is not a problem for me cause I can just go inside but this time the others were in there having a conversation about whether or not turtles can leave there shells. Yuri was sure they could as otherwise “how would they go to the bathroom “. Panda thought he might be right hence the expression, “he needs to come out of his shell”. Of course they are wrong. Everybody knows, the carapace and the plastron (top and bottom shell), are fused to the ribs and vertebrae, so non removable. I couldn’t handle the ignorance so I had to leave.

People often ask how I am such a polymath and why my English is so robust. After all I am from Russia so english was nobody’s first language and of course I am a fox. It turns out one of the researchers at the institute of cytology and genetics used to leave the TV control near the fox enclosure so I was able to watch reruns of TJ Hooker and NCIS which is how I learned English. I also watched the Discovery Channel and I am ashamed I also caught a few episodes of Honey boo boo on TLC.

The Discovery Channel taught me all about EL Nino, also known as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. Basically El Niño is unusually warm water in the Pacific which causes rainy weather during the winter in Southern California. There is a strong El Niño this year so that means many days sitting in the rain while the others are discussing whether or not gnats have testicles and if so where do they keep them.

Vlad out.