Who is the handsome devil of a gorilla who acts as my acceptable public face? His name in English is Snowflake, and in Portuguese Catalan is Floquet de Neu. He lived at the Barcelona Zoo from 1963 to 2003, where he was named Copito de Nieve in Spanish. Barcelona Zoo has a website for him, and if you want to make a donation in his memory, try the Great Ape World Heritage Species Project.
I am nearly as pretty, but a lot less expressive. Snowflake managed to live to become dominant male of his troop and a father and grandfather, despite his albinism. I look like this:
This is me in Piazza San Marco in Venice. Behind me on the right is the Doge’s Palace, and on the left the Basilica San Marco.
(psst, hey John, over here… Floquet de Neu was his name in Catalan, not Portuguese, as he lived in Barcelona’s Zoo at the Catalonia region within the Iberian Peninsula. You may just correct that, I won’t tell anyone.)
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My blog is for me to make my mistakes in public for all to see and point mockingly at. Think of it as a kind of agnostic penance…
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