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Friday Night Photos Safari Park Edition

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 03/27/2026 - 5:00pm

Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.

Hooray! We've managed to make it through another week without the whole world completely imploding. Keeping my fingers crossed that smarter heads prevail and that holds for a lot longer.
Locally it's been a week of early morning fog and hot sunny afternoon's here in the lower left. I've had the windows open at night to keep the house cool. Normally I don't have to do that until May or June. If the last few weeks are any indication it's going so be a blazing hot summer.

Some old familiar faces and some new friends from my last few visits to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

Flying Fox. Southeast Asia, Australia, East Africa

Tree Kangaroo. Eastern Papua, New Guinea

Southern White Rhino. Grasslands and savannahs of Southern Africa

Southern Gerenuk. Southern Somalia to Tanzania

Galloping Gerenuk

Female Lowland Nyala. Southeastern Africa

Red River Hog. Rain forests of West & Central Africa

Red-flanked Duiker. Savana woodlands of West & Central Africa

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Submitted by humphrey on Fri, 03/27/2026 - 5:58pm

Your certainly are lucky to be situated where you live in order

to provide us with various images on a weekly basis.

BTW

I watched a baseball game with the Padres yesterday and the weather looked pretty good.

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 03/27/2026 - 8:22pm

Hi, humphrey

@humphrey
I love living in San Diego, but it does come at a cost with some of the highest real estate, utilities, and gas prices in the nation.
The weather was nice yesterday. The Padres, not so much. Got their butts kicked 8-2. At home no less.

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Submitted by humphrey on Fri, 03/27/2026 - 6:05pm

Also too...The San Diego Zoo Safari Park must be huge in order

provide a habitat for the animals that your excellent images showed us.

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 03/27/2026 - 6:39pm

The SDZSP

@humphrey
encompasses 1800 acres located in San Diego's north county. They do an excellent job of providing as natural environments as possible for the animals.

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Submitted by QMS on Fri, 03/27/2026 - 7:00pm

got a thing for goats

your Duiker looks like a distant cousin with the little horns

goatus americanus

thanks for the photos!

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 03/27/2026 - 7:27pm

Hi, Q

@QMS
Love the goat. I could use a few of them to eat all the weeds on the hillside in my backyard.

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Submitted by lotlizard on Sat, 03/28/2026 - 3:46am

Born March 27, in 1901: Donald Duck comic-book artist Carl Barks

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/barks.htm

ETA: Sorry for this off-topic posting to the photo-feature essay, I mistook it for an open thread. Those are some amazing closeups of zoo animals.

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Sat, 03/28/2026 - 11:56am

Hi, lotlizard

@lotlizard
No problem posting this here or apology needed. As my opening paragraph always says, post anything you find of interest that helps tune out the madness and I certainly found this interesting and a nice break from the madness. More content like this in the future will always be welcome.

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Submitted by soryang on Sat, 03/28/2026 - 3:59pm

Two tiger myths

The band Lee Nal-chi does a performance of Tiger Comes Down with the Ambiguous Dance Company in a Modern folk fusion performance. I assuming that it comes from the myth of a sea turtle that called a rabbit down the mountain, for a deceptive purpose. He erroneously called the rabbit 虎 "Ho" (tiger) instead of 兔 "Do" (rabbit). As a result the sleek, powerful, tiger came down the mountain inspiring mortal fear in the turtle. Ah, found the video with English subs is still up:

이날치(LEENALCHI) - 범 내려온다(Tiger is coming) Kor-Eng sub

I was looking for an explanation of the original myth, which I had read once or twice before in a book of Korean myths among the books I had lost in a flood despite my best efforts to save them. A family member gifted me a series of Korean and Chinese myth collections (readers for language learners) upon hearing this. This tiger myth below in one of the books I thought was apropos.

The story goes a rabbit is confronted by a hungry tiger. The "clever rabbit" proposes to bake a tteok (sweet rice) cake for the tiger and that the tiger should eat him after that. The tiger agrees. The rabbit heats a white stone over a fire, representing it as the sweet treat. The tiger attempts to consume the "cake" burning his mouth badly and writhes in pain unable to eat anything more.

Your tiger looks familiar SP, that is, I thought maybe I had seen it once before in your pics.

The unrelated fables seem to hold a message for someone. Did someone call the tiger down on himself? Or has a tiger being "twicked" by a rabbit once more?

Thanks for the beautiful animal pics SP!

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Sat, 03/28/2026 - 5:48pm

Hi, soryang

@soryang
Love the Leenalche tune (it's on my Spotify playlist). Interesting that Korea would have a myth about tigers since to my knowledge there are no tigers in Korea.
I have posted other tiger photos in the past. The one I posted this week I shot on March 2nd this year.
Here's a live sound stage version of Tiger is coming I really like.

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Submitted by soryang on Sat, 03/28/2026 - 7:39pm

Yes that's a good one

@Socialprogressive

She said something about the tiger coming down from the mountain, when someone cooked chicken and carp soup (attracted by the smell).

I've read accounts of the demise of the Siberian tiger on the Korean peninsula before, this recent account is a wonderful glimpse into that history. It has gotten remarkably few views but it's outstanding! The subs are pretty good except for "sable" when they mean lynx. I really enjoyed this.

ENG SUB] The Forgotten Tigers Of Korea And The Tragedy Of Their Extinction

They were hunted down to extinction during the Japanese colonial period. After they were wiped out, leopard and lynx would serve as the object of the hunt.

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Submitted by soryang on Sat, 03/28/2026 - 8:34pm

Tigers and leopards as well

@Socialprogressive

Watching the documentary of the extinction of the Siberian tigers in South Korea reminded me of leopards that used to be there as well. Jo Yong Pil sang a very unconventional song about a Kilimanjaro leopard. While looking for the lyrics I came across this somewhat recent article about the songwriter and her composer husband and their work with the iconic South Korean singer superstar.

Yang In-ja: Lyricist of 'Kilimanjaro Leopard' and 'Tatatata'

80-Year-Old Songwriter's Timeless Hits and Collaboration with Composer Kim Hee-gap

◇The Great Encounter with Cho Yong-pil

Including the three songs that appeared in this concert, Yang has written the most lyrics for Cho Yong-pil’s songs (21 songs), including *Seoul Seoul Seoul* and *Tell Me What You Saw*.

−This year marks the 40th anniversary of *The Leopard of Kilimanjaro*. Why do you think it’s still loved?

“While watching the broadcast, I thought, ‘People have been living with one question for a long time.’ A question like, ‘Am I living properly now?’ Maybe that’s why people like the song and find comfort in it.”

−I heard you wrote this to lift yourself up after failing the New Year’s Literary Contest.

“I didn’t write it all at once. Every time I failed, I wrote a line here and there to lift myself from despair, and those lines became the lyrics. I also wrote things like, ‘This isn’t the end, get up.’ I had so many wills written down (laughs).”

−Your husband composed the music.

“When writing pop songs, if you write, ‘I met you and was happy and had fun,’ it ends in three minutes. I felt like I hadn’t said everything I needed to, so I asked my husband, ‘Can’t you write a song that allows me to say more?’ I asked if it had to end in three minutes, and he said it was due to broadcasting constraints. When I asked if he wouldn’t write songs that aren’t for broadcasting, he said if I had so much to say, I should try writing it all. He composed the song with a separate narration part. He really made a song that fit it.” The song’s length is 5 minutes and 26 seconds—a radical innovation at the time.

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Sun, 03/29/2026 - 10:14am

Thanks for the videos

@soryang
and the info, soryang.

#5.1 Watching the documentary of the extinction of the Siberian tigers in South Korea reminded me of leopards that used to be there as well. Jo Yong Pil sang a very unconventional song about a Kilimanjaro leopard. While looking for the lyrics I came across this somewhat recent article about the songwriter and her composer husband and their work with the iconic South Korean singer superstar. Yang In-ja: Lyricist of 'Kilimanjaro Leopard' and 'Tatatata' 80-Year-Old Songwriter's Timeless Hits and Collaboration with Composer Kim Hee-gap ◇The Great Encounter with Cho Yong-pil Including the three songs that appeared in this concert, Yang has written the most lyrics for Cho Yong-pil’s songs (21 songs), including *Seoul Seoul Seoul* and *Tell Me What You Saw*. −This year marks the 40th anniversary of *The Leopard of Kilimanjaro*. Why do you think it’s still loved? “While watching the broadcast, I thought, ‘People have been living with one question for a long time.’ A question like, ‘Am I living properly now?’ Maybe that’s why people like the song and find comfort in it.” −I heard you wrote this to lift yourself up after failing the New Year’s Literary Contest. “I didn’t write it all at once. Every time I failed, I wrote a line here and there to lift myself from despair, and those lines became the lyrics. I also wrote things like, ‘This isn’t the end, get up.’ I had so many wills written down (laughs).” −Your husband composed the music. “When writing pop songs, if you write, ‘I met you and was happy and had fun,’ it ends in three minutes. I felt like I hadn’t said everything I needed to, so I asked my husband, ‘Can’t you write a song that allows me to say more?’ I asked if it had to end in three minutes, and he said it was due to broadcasting constraints. When I asked if he wouldn’t write songs that aren’t for broadcasting, he said if I had so much to say, I should try writing it all. He composed the song with a separate narration part. He really made a song that fit it.” The song’s length is 5 minutes and 26 seconds—a radical innovation at the time.

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Submitted by soryang on Sun, 03/29/2026 - 11:27am

SP thanks for the great photos...

@Socialprogressive

...every Friday night, it's a nice escape from the daily grind!

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Submitted by QMS on Sun, 03/29/2026 - 12:05pm

The daily grind

@soryang

Passed down from my great-great grand phantom. Courtesy of time travel.

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Sun, 03/29/2026 - 1:47pm

Nice antique

@QMS
Looks like you can still grind coffee beans with it.

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Submitted by QMS on Sun, 03/29/2026 - 5:57pm

The cast iron flywheel helps

@Socialprogressive
crunch thru the cycle,
momentum or some such.

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Submitted by soryang on Sun, 03/29/2026 - 4:51pm

Hi Q!

@QMS

Been away this afternoon working on my better half's mc plan options. It's a confusing mess. More corporate jiggery pokery. Luckily, we had two competent advisors. My brain is broken now.

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Submitted by QMS on Sun, 03/29/2026 - 5:59pm

The system is designed

@soryang
to confuse us
glad you had some help.

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Submitted by orlbucfan on Mon, 03/30/2026 - 8:34am

Happy Monday, Sp and krewe!

Greetings from the land of Endless Summer--BAH HUMBUG! Love the pics, comments, and links. This and NCTim's Diaries (plus Professor Joe's) are what attracted me to c99 initially. Now, I'm pretty much a Regular. LOL. Rec'd!!

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Mon, 03/30/2026 - 9:12am

Hi, obf

@orlbucfan
I think at this point we can say there's no "pretty much" about it, you are a regular here. And we're glad to have you.

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