thanks to su yin i am watching all kinds of animals on webcams. bear is miffed about the panda webcam though, because, he says, what on earth do i want to look at pandas for when i've got him. there is a staggering list of over 30 kinds of animals you can adopt from the national zoo in dc, more extensive than the adoption list of any other zoo i've seen. from the cuban crocodile to the nile hippopotamus, the white-cheeked gibbon to the ring-tailed lemur, they've got them all. you can even get yourself a goliath bird-eating tarantula or a hissing cockroach, if you so wish. perhaps i'll adopt a giant octopus for sarah for her birthday.