In case you missed this one......

Director Errol Morris made a tiny, little movie in 1997 that slipped under the radar. I was reminded of my love of naked mole rats recently and then this movie. We are all a little crazy (especially this author) but these guys are really into their passions, so do we call it crazy? Fun and thought provoking. I love and recommend all of his work!

Here's the official synopsis:The film interwoven the stories of four obsessive men, each driven to create eccentric worlds of their dreams, all involving animals: Dave Hoover, a lion tamer who idealizes the late Clyde Beatty, and who shares his odd theories on the mental processes of wild animals; George Mendonça, a topiary gardener who has devoted a lifetime to painstakingly shaping bears and giraffes out of hedges and trees; Ray Mendez, who is fascinated with hairless mole-rats, tiny buck-toothed mammals who behave like insects; and Rodney Brooks, an M.I.T. scientist who has designed complex, autonomous robots that can crawl like bugs without specific instructions from a human controller. As the film proceeds, thematic connections between the four protagonists begin to emerge: the lion tamer and the topiary gardener look back at ways of life which are fading from the scene; the mole-rat specialist and the robot scientist eye the future, envisioning creatures that may someday replace the human race.

Happy Birthday to Charlie Parker (our African Grey parrot) and to my sister in OR!!

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