I went to the Bronx Zoo on this lovely New York Saturday hoping to see some lions and other cool animal friends and maybe get an airbrush tattoo. I did not expect to see two grizzly bears fuck for approximately ten minutes (partial video below), but life can unfurl itself in exciting ways when you least expect it.

The layout of Lafayette Street where it meets Prince Street was reconstructed recently, so that it now includes a short median. For human purposes, the median is engineered to separate the bicycle lane from the main flow of traffic, and to mark the beginning of the off-curb parking spaces. For the purposes of other living things, it also happens to offer a concrete-bounded patch of open dirt.