West Midland Safari Park Landing provides the chance to walk amongst one of the largest flocks in the UK. This is home to the black-and-white ruffed lemurs. Creepy Crawlies is the park's insect house, and contains a small range of creepy crawlies including tarantulas, Goliath birdeater spider, leafcutter ants, locusts, Madagascar hissing cockroaches, and scorpions. The park's reptile house is named after the famous herpetologist Mark O'Shea. He also makes appearances at the park, occasionally performing in the reptile encounters that take place outside the building, where guests can learn more about some of the park's reptiles. Reptiles in this exhibit include alligator snapping
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine is a 1976 book by Tom Wolfe, consisting of eleven essays and one short story that Wolfe wrote between 1967 and 1976. It includes the essay in which he coined the term "the 'Me' Decade" to refer to the 1970s. In addition to the stories, Wolfe also illustrated the book. "Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine" was Wolfe's third collection of essays and short stories, following "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby" in 1965 and "The Pump House Gang" in 1968. Wolfe's 1970 book "Radical Chic