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.
I'm no Steve Irwin, but they've put weirder people than me on TV before! 😉
That vertebrae study was really cool and had a lot of surprises in it. My wife does X-rays for a living, so I was talking to her about it for a bit. She seemed mildly interested, in a wife sort of way, but I don't think she wanted to hear about more work stuff after she got home...
I'm glad you all like still hearing me ramble on about all things animal here.