At Brookfield Zoo.

Yesterday I learned that koalas possess practically grooveless brains. With one of the smallest brain-to-body-mass ratios in mammals, koalas cannot decide or conclude; their cognitive abilities are all but nonexistent. Apparently, they can’t even recognize eucalyptus leaves as food if the leaves have been stripped from the branches.

But, gosh, are they cute.

After seeing the koalas, I had hoped to visit Hitchcock Poe* the raven (an animal so adroit, some call it a “flying primate”), but he was not in the enclosure in which I last encountered him, and he does not appear in the zoo’s list of animals. How weird would it be to email the zoo about him?

*Edited on August 14: Thank you for the encouragement. I spoke with someone in the animal care department: Poe the raven lives! According to an email reply from the zoo, he can be found in the Wild Encounters exhibit.