Darkness fell and now Coyote listened for the voices and he looked all round, he looked hereand there, but nothing appeared. Coyote sat there in the middle of the prairie. He sat there allnight but the lodge didn’t appear again nor did the ghost ever return to him.  From Nez Perce mythology, Coyote and the Shadow […]

he morning was fair and the day proved favorable to our operations . . . in the early part of the day two of our men fired on a panther, a little below our encampment, and wounded it; they informed us that it was very large, had just killed a deer partly devoured it, and

Since when did they change it to opossum?  When I was comin’ up it was just possum.  Opossum makes it sound like he’s Irish or something.  Why do they gotta go changing everything? – Jesse Pinkman, Breaking Bad. The opossum is a marsupial and the only one present in North America.  The species is thought to

The ears were large, flaring forward, the eyes limpid amber, in which the pupil floated like a glittering jewel, changing color with shifts of the light: obsidian, emerald, ruby, opal, amethyst, diamond.  – William S. Burroughs, Ghost of Chance. Lemurs are primates and only found on the island of Madagascar.  They are found throughout the

his is a small primate, about 16 inches tall – but with striking coloration.  They have orange-brown fur, a golden crown, a white tip on the tail, and dark red hands and feet.  It also is known as the Madidi titi monkey, and is only found in Madidi National Park in Bolivia, which spans from