Es muy interesante sus metas e intereses con el almiqui (It is quite interesting your goals and interest in the (Cuban) solenodon.). —- Dr. Giraldo Alayon Garcia, Museo Nacional de Historica, La Habana, Cuba. This is a curious creature. It is a nocturnal, fossorial, venomous, insectivorous mammal. Yes – venomous. It is one of only a […]
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SALAMANDER, n. Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water. The Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce. 1911.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate and remote. -Ed Abbey. This is a fairly large lizard – up to 24 inches long including its tail. It is a pale gray or whitish with a tan or brownish reticulated pattern on the back and sides. It has a row of
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At time the Carrancha is noisy, but is not generally so: its cry is loud, very harsh and peculiar, and may be liken to the sound of the Spanish guttural g, followed by a rough double r, when uttering this cry it elevates its head higher and higher, till at last, with its beak wide
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Snowy Owl and Raven were both pure white. They decide to make each other more colorful, and Raven paints gray crescents on Owl’s white feathers. But Raven will not sit still while Owl paints him, and in frustration, Snowy Owl pours lamp oil onto Raven, turning his feathers black as night. Transformed, the Raven cries,
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