“Okay, Billy. … Tide’s coming in now. … Dig me out, Billy. … Billy, I don’t want to get angry. …”

“Say … now there’s a little hat!”

Hopeful parents

The young dog’s nightmare: premature mange

Carl Sagan as a kid

Jungle-wise characters

Theater of the gods

“And I tell ya ... the next trail drive I sign onto, I’m readin’ the fine print!”

Where parakeets come from

Seymour Frishberg: Accountant of the Wild Frontier

Testing whether or not rhinos land on their feet.

“Oh, wonderful! Look at this, Etta—another mouth to feed.”

Primitive fraternities

“So! Planning on roaming the neighborhood with some of your buddies today?”

“Oh my God, Rogers! … Is that? … Is that? … It is! It’s the MUMMY’S PURSE!”

“Uh-oh—looks like the zipper has stuck on that thing again.”

Only Bernard, in the front row, had the nerve to laugh at Death.