Thursday, 9 January 2014

Day 374



This'll be the second T-shirt I've worn this week to have hailed from my family's Mallorca adventure and is indeed the last. It marks the 9th day of 'Extra Time' of my THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE T-shirt challenge and was picked out specifically by my brother as the design is heavily safari themed - a personal interest of my sibling who is a marine biologist by profession.

It's not clear whether this T-shirt is in any way affiliated with the safari zoo based on the island or not, though the chances are that the attraction was the inspiration for its conception.
The design is comprised of rows of animals queuing amid a landscape of typically African markings, towards an undisclosed goal. Perhaps they're queuing to use the food stalls and amenities before the visitors arrive at the start of the day? Perhaps they're queuing to board some sort of ark? Perhaps the fire alarm has been triggered and the animals are carrying out the evacuation procedure? Who knows?

In addition to the lines of beasts, text labels punctuate each row to define which animals should queue where. The lions have correctly filed behind the Lion sign, the elephants behind the Elephants sign, but curiously, the gazelles and rhinos have opted for the Fauna line, despite that being open to everyone. There is perhaps some animal-based admin protocol that I'm unfamiliar with that explains this; I shall have to ask my brother what normally happens when he has to arrange the fish in queues at his office.
In the ocean.
Where he works.

Thanks for the tee Rob.

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