They are gorgeous, bright-eyed, brilliant girls: onetall, one short, pant legs dragging, torn leggings, sneakers that glow in the dark or light up with each step, boom boom boom.
She also had a revelation while seated in front of one of the dioramas (my recollection is that it was the one of salmon-hunting Alaska brown bears standing seven feet tall): that the only reason we exercise dominion over the Earth, and creatures bigger and stronger than us, is because of our larger brains.