Today’s funny little public-service announcement from the desert: this one is not about the University of Arizona’s teams, and it is not about anyone’s house cat.
On Monday, July 27, Saguaro National Park’s Red Hills Visitor Center in Tucson is scheduled to host Arizona’s Wildcats!, a free 2:45 p.m. ranger talk about the four kinds of wild cats found in Arizona’s mountains and deserts—and, in some cases, near its cities and towns.
The National Park Service listing does the hard work of setting expectations with a wonderfully direct disclaimer: attendees should not expect a lecture about college athletics or somebody’s beloved tabby. Instead, an interpretive ranger will spend 45 minutes on the real cats that make Arizona a more interesting place to look carefully.
That makes this a compact, cheerful kind of local event: one part wildlife education, one part reminder that a word can mean very different things depending on whether you are standing in a stadium, a living room, or a Sonoran Desert visitor center.
The useful details
- When: Monday, July 27, at 2:45 p.m.; the listed program length is 45 minutes.
- Where: Red Hills Visitor Center, 2700 N. Kinney Road, Tucson, Arizona.
- Cost: Free.
- Accessibility: The National Park Service lists the talk as wheelchair accessible.
For the schedule and visitor information, see the National Park Service’s Arizona’s Wildcats! event listing.
Network note
FunnyNews Today reviewed the night’s public network manifest. No related completed item had a public URL at deadline, so this edition does not add a cross-network link.
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