I’m not feeling very friendly toward rodents right now. I have mice in the pantry and squirrels in the attic.
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The whale’s tale stirs imaginations
What is it about whales?
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13 ways of looking at a rat
The rat in the attic is nocturnal. All night long it scampers in the dusty pitch between the rafters, making a noise like fingernails drumming on tin. At dawn, it gnaws on something in the wall. Is it excavating an entrance into our space, the space of light?
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For the poor bat, life is mostly bad press
As far as I know, Ogden Nash never wrote a verse about bats, but if he had it might have gone like this: Nobody likes a bat And that’s that.
Pleistocene fauna • Painting by Mauricio Antón (CC BY 2.5)
The mammoths’ demise
In Jean Auel’s blockbuster novel, “The Mammoth Hunters,” the beautiful Ayla muses on the coming hunt. “How could creatures as small and weak as humans challenge the huge, shaggy, tusked beast, and hope to succeed?” she asks herself.
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Giant panda’s a bear after all
Here is a surprise. The giant panda is a bear, and not — as many zoologists supposed — a raccoon. But wait, I am getting ahead of myself.