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huddle of walruses
why not walruses? I like collective nouns. also cabinets of wonder. here is one.
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“ California has more people with more opinions than other states,” said Mark Stopher, senior policy adviser for the California Department of Fish and Game.
Jan 26
Don’t worry, he’s okay! He’s just sleeping.
Dormice hibernate in the winter in nests that they make hidden away on the ground. In Britain the dormouse may spend up to 1/3 of its life in hibernation. Dormice usually enter hibernation at the time of the first frost, when nearly all food is gone. Dormice rely upon fat reserves gathered in the summer and autumn, and during hibernation they loose about a quarter of their body weight.
Surrey Wildlife Trust Mammal Project Officer, Dave Williams, took this lovely footage of a dormouse in torpor.
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» Downton Abbey Season 2 on PBS: Movies TV: GQ
I don’t know what I want to do with this, but something.
Jan 08
Hopkins, on an early Yeats poem
“It was a strained and unworkable allegory about a young man and a sphinx on a rock in the sea (how did they get there? what did they eat? and so on; people think such criticism very prosaic, but common-sense is never out of place anywhere…)”
Jan 05
