NPR Puzzle 2/5/12 -- At Least They Don't Eat Each Other

Here's this week's puzzle:

Name an animal. Add the letters "A" and "T," and rearrange the result to name another animal. These are both animals that might be found in a zoo, and the last letter of the first animal is the first letter of the last one.

Ross solved this using TEA, I believe. But he's in the UK now so I can't ask him. Anyway, the answer is GORILLA + AT = ALLIGATOR

Yup, it's my turn to keep the home fires burning. Literally: here's our wood stove which heats 2/3 of our house!

Photos. I didn't ask you to guess what these photos had to do with gorillas and alligators, but I'm curious if anyone did. It's a variation on a now-familiar theme: I go to Wikipedia, look up the answers, and find photographs of something in the relevant Wiki pages. Clearly I couldn't use habitat photos: the relevant regions of Africa for the gorilla are pretty specific and thus too much of a hint. Ditto the habitat of the alligator. So I settled on the stuff these animals eat (or in the case of the larger mammals shown, the stuff that alligators ambush because I honestly don't know if alligators eat Florida panthers, or just kill them).

First up: the alligator's "diet" includes:

The Black Bear (teeny splodge in the center of the picture)

The Florida Panther

The Razorback, here in metallic form in Little Rock, Arkansas

By contrast, the gorilla eats rather lower on the food chain (and, one might say, more healthily):

Bananas (yes, this is just a banana leaf, but don't you think an actual banana would have been too much of a hint?)

Ants. That's an anthill in Mali, by the way. Using the foliage for scale, it's freaking huge.

Bamboo, in this instance used as a decorative element in Paris.

Time for...

Here are this week's picks:

Fewer than 50  51 - 100 101 - 150 151 - 200 201 - 250 251 - 300 301 - 350 351 - 400 401 - 450 -- Paul 451 - 500   501 - 550 -- Joe Kupe 551 - 600 -- Henry BW 601 - 650 651 - 700 -- Ross 701 - 750 751 - 800 801 - 850 -- Magdalen 851 - 900 901 - 950 -- Dave 951 - 1,000 -- KJ

1,001 - 1,050 -- David 1,051 - 1,100 1,101 - 1,150 1,151 - 1,200 1,201 - 1,250 1,251 - 1,300 -- Skydiveboy 1,301 - 1,350 1,351 - 1,400 -- Curtis 1,401 - 1,450 1,451 - 1,500 1,501 - 1,550 1,551 - 1,600 1,601 - 1,650 1,651 - 1,700 1,701 - 1,750 1,751 - 1,800 -- Marie 1,801 - 1,850 1,851 - 1,900 1,901 - 1,950 1,951 - 2,000

2,001 - 2,050 -- EKW 2,051 - 2,100 2,101 - 2,150 2,151 - 2,200 2,201 - 2,250 2,251 - 2,300 2,301 - 2,350 2,351 - 2,400 2,401 - 2,450 2,451 - 2,500 2,501 - 2,750 2,751 - 3,000 3,001 - 3,250 3,251 - 3,500 3,501 - 4,000 4,001 - 4,500 4,501 - 5,000 More than 5,000 -- Jim of Mendo fame More than 5,000 and it sets a new record.

Our tie-break rule:  In the event that a single round number is announced, AND two separate people picked the ranges leading up to and leading up from that round number, the prize will be awarded to whichever entrant had not already won a prize, or in the event that both entrants had won a prize already or neither had, then to the earlier of the two entries on the famous judicial principle of "First Come First Serve," (or in technical legal jargon, "You Snooze, You Lose").