Since North America is a continent rather than a country, it doesn’t have an official national animal. But understanding the national animals of the three most populous countries can tell us a lot both about the character of North America and demonstrate some facts about the ecological diversity...
A strain of low-key optimism runs throughout (“I’m not alone / and we’re all the same”, “everything changes / everything stops / every day is a miracle”) alongside the names of small towns (“Bullfrog, UT”), which is accentuated by Kalman’s cheery, loopy, randomized ...