A giant panda (Photo by The Q)

It’s always fun to go to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and look in on all the critters that inhabit our favorite collection of animals. And when you can’t get to the zoo, sometimes a handy news blog will satiate you with a gallery of some of the zoo’s more cuddly specimens. (Pandas? Cheetah cubs? You never know.)

Sometimes, though, even an online gallery of furry, adorable animals is out of reach. But that could change, as the National Zoo rolled out an iPhone application this week featuring photos and profiles of 300 of its animals, guides for planning a trip to the zoo and, most refreshingly, live camera feeds of some of the park’s most beloved specimens—including the pandas. That’s right. Now you can have panda-cam in your pocket. (Yeah, yeah, there are also live feeds of gorillas, tigers, flamingos, lions and golden lion tamarins.)

The application, which costs $1.99, is also useful inside the zoo, with GPS-enabled maps. App users can also look in on footage of animal feedings, so if you’ve ever wanted to take a break and see how an octopus eats, well, that’s a thing now.

But the weirdest feature of the National Zoo’s application might be something called “Zooify Yourself.” We can’t really do better than the description provided in the zoo’s press release:

Users can create a customized portrait by transforming themselves into an animal, for example, with red panda ears or oryx horns, and then email the photo to friends and family.

That’s some Dr. Moreau stuff right there.

Proceeds from sales of the application will fund the zoo’s conservation and research operations. It’s only available for iOS devices right now, though an Android version is in the works.