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This house mouse (Mus musculus) made a visit to my home and got himself stuck in the kitchen sink. Being the critter lover that I am, I just couldn't kill him, so I picked him up and took him outside. I'm sure he came back inside at some point. In this picture, Mr. Mus has a wrapper from a cheese slice. In reality, mice prefer grains and sweets over cheese. They are both nocturnal and social animals. If you see one in your house, chances are there are a lot more. They breed...
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There is a stock conversation, which most of us participate at some point, the purpose of which is to ascertain the existence of a completely superfluous entity of flora or fauna in the hope of denying its very right to exist. Recently I got into this very debate about wasps. They're pointless, right? Someone asked me recently. An innocent enquiry that betrays a human inability to see the worth of an animal unless it has some form of obvious employment (cow) or a high aesthetic value...
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I was walking to work yesterday when an insect landed on my head. I had seen the fucker fall from the sky, had felt his weight upon my temple, and could now see him out of the corner of my left eye. He was wearing yellow with black stripes - a wasp. I tried to brush the thing off with a flicking motion of the three largest fingers on my left hand. He would not move. I flicked again, this time emitting a quiet "euuugh" sound from my mouth. The fucker was rooted, and then he stung me...
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Sea snakes may slither in saltwater, but they sip the sweet stuff. So concludes a University of Florida zoologist in a paper appearing this month in the online edition of the November/December issue of the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.
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