Category: Love
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If Doctor Doolittle offered online courses in animal languages, I would take them all. He'd have many customers. Actually, all of us already know a few phrases in animal languages. We don't need Intro Dog to know that this dog is saying “I might bite! Check out these teeth!” We don't need Conversational Cat to guess that…
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Earlier this year, a wildlife rescue center took in a mute swan (Cygnus olor). Mute swans aren't native birds. In North American we have tundra swans, whooper swans, and trumpeter swans. Some people buy mute swans, the lovely birds of classic European imagery, and place them on ornamental water to make it even more ornamental.…
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There were two northern treeshrews in a glass-fronted cage in the National Museum in Washington, DC. The female scampered along a tangle of branches, up, down, over, under, back, up, over, down, over, down, etc. I was busy myself, leaning on a wall and sneering at the sign. It identified the treeshrews and gave the…
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My sister took this photograph. (Click on it for a better look.) It shows Sky, a Thoroughbred mare, and her first foal. The foal's about 5 minutes old. Because it was her first foal, Sky had no idea what was happening when she went into labor. First she felt bad, and then she felt really…
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Often when a cat does something in secret, it's a wicked thing. A certain cat belonging to a relative recently discovered how to enter a lidded hamper full of clean folded laundry, urinate on the laundry, and leap out without knocking over the hamper or otherwise being detected. Until my relative wanted a clean shirt.…
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