Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I arrived in St. Louis last night at dusk to be met with an apartment building surrounded by fireflies. That’s something you won’t see in San Francisco, and most other places that don’t have higher humidity. One can suffer higher temperature and humidity for a nightly show of fireflies. Still […]
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The critters we love and the critters that deserve our love.
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A story of lasts
Two tales of extinction from Tasmania. Earlier in May, I read about the efforts to clone the Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine) an animal whose last known representative died in captivity in 1936 (see video at BBC). I studied about the Tasmanian Tiger when I wrote a four-part story about cryptozoology, extinct and legandary animals, and the giant squid in Tale of Two […]
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Just another morning
It starts with an Argentinian ant invasion. While I was waiting for the exterminator this morning, I received a phone call from another weblogger. Lovely voice. Witty conversation. Wonderful surprise. Just as I’m hanging up the phone, the exterminator came and after I showed her where the little buggers were entering my home, I took off […]
Ha! Shannon and I have a co-fearer of spiders. Kath details her terror at an encounter with a monster spider in Florida. My favorite generator of terror? The Tegenaria gigantea. Don’t let its harmless common name of House Spider fool you — this arachnid can reach sizes of 18mm for the male. And if you live in the […]
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Speaking of animals
Speaking of cat loving Australian men and other animals, I found a web site that lists some of the more interesting Australian Animals, including creatures such as the Kookaburra and the Bandicoot. And the Tasmanian Devil isn’t just a Bugs Bunny cartoon character. Want to hear what they sound like? Make sure your cats are out of the room, first.