Family Conference

Brookfield Zoo, February 1973. This group recognizes who is in charge.

Dismayed

Brookfield Zoo, February 1965. Don't read to much into it.

Roar

Brookfield Zoo, November 1966. Here's a photo that makes me laugh. This fellow looks like a human in a lion suit.

Sheltered Reunion

Brookfield Zoo, February 1969. There's a new arrival to admire.

She came back.

Verona, Wisconsin, January 22, 2015. Our visitor again scampers through the backyard.

Don't get all soft about foxes; they're predators, just like coyotes.

Wary

Brookfield Zoo, August 1968. It's not surprising my friends found this fellow creepy.

Golden Reunion

Brookfield Zoo, 1966. It's a Golden Lion Tamarin ("Golden Marmoset"). For a time, this photo also hung on the Rec Room wall (although it doesn't appear in these photos).

"By another account, a UW-Madison police officer recently noticed a fox crossing University Avenue, a chicken in its mouth."

Watch your coops! The campus foxes are adorable, but they're also hunters.

"Foxes among Badgers." Awww:

A fox meets a real badger: 

Flash

Brookfield Zoo, March 1966. It's a Marmoset.

Get every last bit.

Brookfield Zoo, October 1966. We're sitting back and watching the antics.

Emotional Reunion

Brookfield Zoo, Illinois, Spring 1962. Dad snaps a favorite subject.

When animals seem human.

Brookfield Zoo, June 1963. Many images depict animals in anthropomorphic poses. This was a subject that intrigued my Dad, and he often snapped pictures of zoo animals who looked uncannily human.

In those photographs, Dad captured animals naturally engaging in behaviors people associate with humans. That's a different category from photos in which someone stages animals to act as if they are humans.

Inspecting the tool.

Brookfield Zoo, August 1968. Dad won several competitions with this photograph. An enlargement of the image hung in our Rec Room, where it creeped out my friends.

Anthropomorphism

Animal portraits.