It’s time for another post and true to form so far this year we’re sticking with the mammals from our Indianapolis Zoo Trip from (hang head low) back in 2011. But first a quick moment for some back patting. Last post was a bit of a milestone here at LifeIntrigued. Second guessing myself, maybe I should have gone with “Kudos to Me” for the title. What milestone do I speak of? Well, with the release of the last post I’ve now officially made 400 posts over the last 5 years and some change (..crowd goes wild, balloons fall from the sky, t-shirts shot into the crowd). Kind of makes me chuckle thinking about a certain brother proclaiming to the blogosphere how he was beating me on the post count for this year.. trust me, that little issue has been remedied.
Okay, enough fanfare. Time to get to the subject of this post. Correct that, the subject’S’ of the post. It’s a bonus day for our readers who get TWO mammals to look at. The first one is an animal that always brings me back to my childhood. Anybody out there remember Yipes? If so, you will understand the title.
For those that do not know, Yipes is the mascot for Fruit Stripes gum. Technically it is a zebra but those clever marketing people over at Beech Nut gave it colored stripes. These same stripes were replicated on the gum itself. Once again I learned something interesting from our friends over at Wikipedia. They state the gum was actually wrapped in edible paper. I do not remember that at all. What I do remember quite readily is a) how flavorful the individual pieces were and b) that flavor lasting about 3 chews. A deep psychoanalysis would probably reveal this being the source of my current compulsion to always chew two pieces of gum at a time. Yipes pretty much makes our specimen pretty boring. Plain old black and white. In case the suspense is killing you, I firmly believe that it’s black stripes on a white body but this is opposite to the current scientific evidence – this being a clear government conspiracy to hide the truth. The picture above shows the reason for this belief – the underbelly has large white sections that look more like a canvas (see back of leg and the section right below the neck). During post processing I decided to leave the bird in- gave the impression it was standing it’s ground against the behemoth. Although, would have preferred to have taken the time to get the whole bird in the original shot. The Zebra ears also mimic the “I’ve got my eyes on you” look. While I’m at it, what is your take on this head shot? – this one has the full head, one complete leg and enough body to make the connection from the neck to the start of the leg. Does the single leg give an odd feeling .. like something is missing or is it quirky enough to be captivating?
And then we have the wall mount shot. With the ears pulled back a little more it gives a less sad feeling.
Hit the jump to read more facts about the Zebra and see the bonus mammal!
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