Pop Omnivore
Posted by In the new film Zookeeper, Kevin James stars as a bumbling zookeeper who seeks relationship advice from his closest friends—the animals. Different animals at the zoo take turns giving their view on how to get the girl. But do these cinematic animals know what they’re talking about? We talked to biologists to get the truth about animal mating. Here’s a look at the animals’ advice in the movie, and whether or not it holds up:
Families are flocking to Mr. Popper’s Penguins, which grossed $18.2 million in its opening weekend. The film, based loosely on a 1930s children’s book by Richard and Florence Atwater, stars Jim Carrey as Tom Popper, a businessman whose life is thrown off course when he receives six Gentoo penguins in the mail. He hates them…
Scoff not at the cod with its whiskered chin, its wide-eyed look of perpetual surprise, its mottled brown sides the color of North Sea Crude. There are homelier fish, to be sure, but looks aren’t everything. Dried to leathery hardness, reconstituted by soaking in water for three days, simmered in a pot for three or…
