Dear Internet, No, no, no. I just wanted to look at pictures of baby ravens. I didn’t want to buy one. Not everything of value needs to be available for my personal purchase and ownership. You and your peeps might consider that sometime. Me P.S. Also, am beginning to suspect there’s no search term on […]
Just another helpful letter to the Internet Read More »
Not sure this is actually the cutest kitty ever, but it’s surely a contender for the top ten: ETA: Of course, what I was looking for was something closer to these. Looking at kittens = serious research!
The Internet is for kittens. All the kittens. Read More »
… and few things are old-fashioned until after the fact.
The past never feels like the past when you live there … Read More »
If an animal can eat carrion, will it, given a choice and access to affordable grocery stores? Is carrion-eating necessity or preference? Possibly this varies by species. Like, maybe a raven would prefer a rare hamburger and a strawberry smoothie. But maybe some species of vulture would actually choose that roadkill-of-indeterminate-age even when given other
Things writers of shapeshifters think about #278 Read More »
Don’t miss Kathi Appelt’s lovely Writing for the Long Haul post on the power of story. At Cynsations I talk about research for fantasy writers: Besides, I’d read enough descriptions of coppery-tasting blood through the years. That many writers couldn’t all be wrong … There was only one way to resolve the question. I dug
The raven landed on top of the streetlight in the morning light, making low noises deep in its throat, somewhere between a krawk and a purr, sleepy noises, irritated noises. It was cold outside, just above freezing, and the raven seemed to take the cold personally. I moved closer, within the range where most ravens
Grumpy raven is grumpy Read More »
An email sent to the San Diego Zoo last week: Hi! I was visiting your mountain lion page at http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-puma.html, and saw that its genus and species were listed as Felis concolor. My understanding was that the mountain lion had been reclassified as Puma concolor a couple decades back. Is there still debate about the
Dear Internet, No, I do not want to buy a golden eagle talon. Where did you get that? Never mind. Just put it back, okay? Me
Sunday afternoon research Read More »
So this morning’s Panthera onca research is focused on the question of whether jaguars purr, to which the answer seems to be: yes, though in a quieter growlier way than the typical domestic housecat, and only when breathing out, not in. Cheetahs, on the other hand, can’t roar but purr quite well, judging from this
The world is filled with secret cats Read More »