Category: animals
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Summer in Aberdeen.
Our garden has achieved a near-perfect balance between weeds and cultivation. Bhawana and Śraddhā Jyoti brought in two big tubs of fresh strawberries yesterday evening. The apple trees have got...
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Bats in motion
This morning’s trawl of news items about bats turned up a wonderful article in Science News reporting on work by T Kunz on how bats use their wings to move....
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The ant jātaka
Once the Buddha was born as an ant. Unlike the other ants he was a rich copper colour, with strong legs and sensitive antennae. It was late spring, and he...
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Bad publicity, confused gender.
Well, it had to happen. Here’s the blurb for a film in which a Yeti is the horror interest. Probably a male monster. Contrast this to Herge’s poignantly misunderstood beast...
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Acquainted things have happened
Well, I’ve hauled the bedraggled blog from Blogger to WordPress. Why, exactly, is not quite clear to me; one of those fretful decisions arrived at through an accumulation of tiny...