​As we've reported, Lionel the Box Turtle escaped from the Inwood Nature Center on December 1st to little fanfare. Poor Lionel. Cobras and peacocks are just flashier than turtles. But the little guy is still missing, out in the urban jungle. We've decided to deepen our investigation into where Lionel could be.

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​Earlier this week, a 1954 AP brief surfaced telling the story of an eleven-year-old Newt Gingrich walking into Harrisburg, PA's City Hall and offering to "round up" some animals and start a zoo in the town. He was denied, but Gingrich's love for zoos prevailed. In fact, according to the Washington Post, Newt Gingrich loves zoos more than you have ever loved anything in your entire life.

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​Ah, how jaded we have become in this last month of 2011. As we speed into January and the year 2012 we can reflect back on how young and innocent we once were -- how excitable and naive, how easy to enthrall -- as evidenced primarily by the public's reaction to escaped zoo animals and their Twitter accounts. As the New York Times puts it, while once we were fascinated, now we are bored: "They swooned over the Egyptian cobra, gone rogue inside the Bronx Zoo's Reptile House last March. They cheered the peacock from the Central Park Zoo, who crossed Fifth Avenue to spend an August day on the ledge of an Upper East Side apartment building, only to return, on his own, the following morning." But the eastern box turtle missing from the Inwood Hill Nature Center, still on the lam since Thursday? Meh. Has the turtle jumped the shark?

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Have you seen the baby penguins of the Central Park Zoo? There are eight of them, and they are adorable. And like anything adorable, or moderately savvy about the internet in the year 2011, they have a blog! It is called The Real Chicks of Central Park, and it promises "chick flicks, chick pics, and chick lit: Our team of bloggers will be chronicling the lives of the Real Chicks with regular posts over the next few weeks."

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