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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he grass divides as with a comb,A spotted shaft is seen;And then it closes at your feetAnd opens further on ——Emily Dickinson, The Snake This is a common snake within its range, averaging 42-72 inches in length, with a diameter at the widest section of its body of 1.5 inches and typically weighing 1 – 5
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The guanaco, or wild llama, is the characteristic quadruped of the plains of Patagonia; it is the South American representative of the camel of the East. It is an elegant animal in a state of nature, with a long slender neck and fine legs. It is very common over the whole of the temperate parts
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