is furry Quaker jacket Is trimmed with stripe of black; A furry plume to match it Is curling o’er his back; New curved with every motion, His plume curls o’er his back. – from The Flying Squirrel, Mary E. Burt The southern, or sometimes referred to as eastern flying squirrel, is found in extreme south eastern Ontario and southern Quebec, […]
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Peccaries are wild pigs that live in herds of 20-200 individuals, with reports of up to 2,000 in a group. They range through central and south America, mostly in rainforests, but do extend into dryer forest and grassland habitats. A herd’s home range can include up to around 45 square miles while they search for
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Everything has its shadowy side. — Tennessee Williams, The Night of the Iguana lso known as the black spiny-tailed iguana or just spiny tailed iguana, this is a large terrestrial species of iguana that is found in Mexico and Central America. Notably, it has been introduced to Florida, which has more than its share of exotic
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………in [this] infernal soil nothing but that fag-end of vegetable creation, “sage-brush,” ventures to grow…When crushed, sage-brush emits an odor which isn’t exactly magnolia and equally isn’t exactly polecat–but it is a sort of compromise between the two.–letter to Jane Clemens from Samuel Clemens, 1861 Stiff sagebrush, also known as scabland sagebrush is a small
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Down at the bottom of that dirty ol’ riverDown where the reeds and the catfish playThere lies a dream as soft as the waterThere lies a bluebird that’s flown awayThere lies a bluebird that’s flown away–Catfish song, Townes Van Zandt. The channel catfish is a wide-ranging species with a distribution from the Hudson Bay region
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