Sentence examples for animals gus from inspiring English sources
Though other picture books have imagined the narrative possibilities of living with oversize animals, Gus, a sweet-faced herbivore who's happy to help out, is an especially charming addition to the genre.
Polar bears are among the most beloved animals, but Gus was something else.
Today the Central Park Zoo will pay tribute to animals (like Gus, the polar bear shown below) whose natural habitat is closer to the Arctic Circle than to Columbus Circle.
That might explain the city's gravitation toward animals like Gus, that illustrious polar bear at the Central Park Zoo, who had to be euthanized this week at 27 after developing a tumor.
But these gentle descriptors were a way to avoid saying what was really going on, and what animal behaviorists called in to observe Gus thought - that the quirky "bipolar bear" actually suffered from long-term depression, evident in the way Gus endlessly swam back and forth, back and forth, like a 700-pound metronome.
But Gus was a trapped animal, a big white teddy bear safely watched from a distance for the amusement of kids and grown-ups alike while he suffered in silence.
Three days after zookeepers performed a four-hour necropsy - or animal autopsy - on Ida's remains, Gus held court in the space they used to share.
He is thinking about Tuesday morning, and showering first so he would be ready when Gus woke up, and then going to feed the animals.
They do a good job of beefing up the animal characters to flesh out the story (such as the mice Gus and Jacques) but it's still pushing it to get to 75 minutes.
