Mammals

A loaf of bread,’ the Walrus said,‘Is what we chiefly need:Pepper and vinegar besidesAre very good indeed —Now if you’re ready, Oysters dear,We can begin to feed.’ Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter. This is a very large flippered marine mammal found in the arctic and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere.  How large?  […]

I walked out a little distance and met with 2 porcupines which were feeding on the young willow which grow in great abundance on all the sandbars; this anamal is exceedingly clumsy and not very watchfull I approached so near one of them before it percieved me that I touched it with my espontoon.  Meriwether

Come play with me;Why should you runThrough the shaking treeAs though I’d a gunTo strike you dead?When all I would doIs to scratch your headAnd let you go.   –To a squirrel at Kyle-Na-No; William Butler Yeats This is the largest of North American tree squirrels and can weigh up to 3 pounds, which is more

The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spell-bound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of

Cought a rat in our Stores, which had done some mischief, this rat was about the Sise of a Comn. large rat, larger ears, long whiskers & toes, with a tail long & hairey like a ground Squirel, verry fine fur and lighter than the Common rat. Wind to day as usial from the S.