Mammals

He lay with his head against its side. Its ribs lifted and fell with its breathing. It rested its chin on his hand. It had a few short hairs there that prickled him. He had been cudgeling his wits for an excuse to bring the fawn inside at night to sleep with him, and now […]

They are seen in numbers varying from a dozen to many hundreds, tumbling over the surface of the sea, or making arching leaps, plunging again on the same curve, or darting high and falling diagonally sideways upon the water… accompanied by a report that may be heard at some distance.”  C.M. Scammon, 1874. These are sleek

Make hay while the sun shines. – unknown This is a small mammal found at higher elevations in the North America from central British Columbia and south along Rockies, Cascades, and Sierra to California, Utah, and New Mexico.   These small critters live in talus fields with adjacent areas of grass and forbs for forage.  They look

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. —Henry David Thoreau Moose are the largest North American ungulate, or within the deer family.  Adults stand 4.5 – 6.9 feet at the shoulder, which is about a

Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm earth. I watched the sun rise, pass over my head and set. Ladybirds mated on my knuckle; a shrew nibbled a hole in my stocking while I tried not to laugh. Such a day was