Showing posts with label chordates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chordates. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Charismatic Macrofauna



Please visit Sparkling Squirrel in the next few days as I intend to be posting essays and photos from the summer adventures. In the meantime, a few reminder that verts can be attractive.

Monday, April 2, 2007

Rabid Skunk, Broken Toe, No Foolin'

Three very strange things have happened today:

  1. first thing in the morning I tripped and fell most of the way down the stairs. Based on the amount my middle toe throbs every time I stand up and that all of the hideous purple is between the joints, it's a possibility (albeit slim) that I broke it. But it's a middle toe, what do you do?
  2. the other bio prof (our age, my friend), who spent the whole long day at the WV Academy of Science meetings with me on Saturday, and, who would, one would hope, have noticed if I had been whisked to the emergency room in the middle of the meetings before driving home three hours in the rain, came in this morning to commiserate about rabies shots. Equally amusing is she knew exactly which students would have been stupid enough to feed rabid squirrels.
  3. we have a weird-acting skunk on our property. Researching scientific names for my rodent blog (yes, I know they aren't rodents), the first thing I read about skunks is "Skunks behaving oddly may have rabies and should be avoided."


Are the fates commenting on my April Fool's jokes?

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Otters holding hands

'nough said. Check it out and make sure to watch to the end:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epUk3T2Kfno