February 2009
1 post
December 2008
1 post
The Green Search Engine
Over 25 selected web sites on eco-friendly products, environmental organizations, national conservation programs, and other stuff on green living.
November 2008
4 posts
Elephants
When people call this beast to mind,
They marvel more and more
At such a little tail behind,
So large a trunk before.
~Hilaire Belloc
African Wildlife Fondation
http://www.awf.org/
Defenders of Wildlife
http://www.defenders.org/
Elephant Information Repository
http://elephant.elehost.com/index.html
Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee
http://www.elephants.com/
World Wildlife...
The Bluest Bird
Mirror mirror on the bower,
What does the bachelor bird
Desire? Dainty bits to bait
His lair for She who softly
Settles there.
March 2008
5 posts
Leafy Sea Dragon
For the lowdown on the elegant marine dragons,
visit Earlham College’s Biological Diversity page at http://www.earlham.edu/~warreem/seadragons.htm
Weedy Sea Dragon
February 2008
20 posts
The Long Arm of Love
Called the Satan of the Sea in pulp fiction, many species of octopus are gentle, considerate lovers. The male and female members of one species conduct their courtship from separate tidepool caves, the male passing his sperm packet to the female via one specially long tentacle. Mission completed, they go their separate ways without ever seeing each other.
Zoonomia
Organic life beneath the shoreless waves
Was born and nurs’d in oceans pearly caves Erasmus Darwin, 1794
A Rose By Any Other Name...Is A Caterpillar?
What’s This North American Caterpillar?
At last an identification system that uses natural languages: hairy, spiny, smooth, bumpy, sluglike, horned, fleshy or knobby? http://www.whatsthiscaterpillar.co.uk/america/index.htm
Jabberwocky
Beware the Jabberwocky, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch. ~Lewis Carroll
Jaws
How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!
~Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
The Platypus
I like the duck-billed platypus
Because it is anomalous.
I like the way it raises its family
Partly birdly, partly mammaly.
I like its independent attitude.
Let no one call it a duck-billed platitude.Ogden Nash
from To A Louse, by Robert Burns
O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!
genus Hippocampus
The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet. John F. Kennedy
The Riddle of the Snail
It hasn’t any windows It hasn’t any doors Although it has a ceiling It hasn’t any floors ‘Twas built without a builder A hammer or a nail Because you see this funny house Belongs to Mr Snail. -author unknown
Home Remedies for Jellyfish Stings
In 2006 while on a family vacation in Majorca, Michael Douglas suffered a jellyfish sting across his back. To alleviate the pain, he asked his son to urinate on his back. Now you know.
