When asked about his fascination with the animal by [Dick] Cavett, the artist describes anteaters as “angelic.” A master of PR, Dalí knew well by this stage in his career the marketability of his eccentricities but even so, his longstanding affinity to anteaters does seem earnest, and certainly well-documented.
Photo: Salvador Dalí walking a giant anteater in Paris, 1969.
Planning a trip now to the Scottish Owl Centre for next April! Largest collection of owls in the world, so many will get checked off the list there.
Checked off Red Panda this year. He kept pawing me for treats, which I, of course, gave him.
Cleared my rabies antibody response test, so many more doors have also opened up for me to boop many more noses.
Full grown hippo is my biggest boop so far, which will be hard to top.