Jungle

Field guide No. 1163

A hippo yawns wide in a muddy river with a glowing black eclipse ring hanging in its open mouth while others watch from the water. It is the best seat for it, and the only one with a view.

Pocket eclipse in a hippo's yawn

Totality, down the throat.

A hippo yawns wide in a muddy river with a glowing black eclipse ring hanging in its open mouth while others watch from the water. It is the best seat for it, and the only one with a view.

Field noteTotality hangs in a yawning mouth. The moon took a lower orbit, and the hippo allowed it.

Specimen
No. 1163
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A muddy river, mid-afternoon.
Nearest existing relative
A yawning hippo.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics