Skunks may even eat the eggs or flightless young of ground-nesting birds. Other small, defenseless prey may include fish, reptiles and amphibians like frogs.Plant Life Though skunks prefer a diet of animal matter, their usual food sources are not as plentiful in fall and winter as they are ...
Zoeckler and his wife like to walk out into the bayou at the preserve. “The boardwalk makes a safe, more or less hazard-free walk out of what might have otherwise been a muddy and dangerous trek. We have seen alligators, snakes, spiders, lizards, frogs, and occasionally, other tourists...
Newts (Salamandridae) are members of theAmphibiaclass along with frogs (Anura) and caecilians (Gymnophiona) while lizards (Squamata) are in theReptiliaclass with tuatara (Sphenodontia), snakes (Squamata), turtles (Testudinata) and crocodiles (Crocodilia).Amphibiais derived from the Greek wordam...
and there is also a fragrance of someone just walking by quickly in the dark, or was it that tiny moth exuding a delicate winged scent, caught from Mystic Blue or maybe those deep dark button chrysanthemums that are a color I do not know yet....
The Dayak fruit bats in southeast Asia are mammals as are all bats. However, unlike many mammals, both males and females lactate. According to the University of Michigan's Museum of Zoology, biologists debate whether the male bat cares for the offspring. Since both sexes have mammary glands,...
It goes to show what a hard thing good writing is, Sometimes writers do fall from the sky complete, like a shower of frogs - although it is usually frogs that fall, and not, say T S Eliot - but most of us have to work at it. Melvyn Burgess, author of The Hit, in The Times ...
We have to teach our brains how to process the type of information that now needs to be processed. Digital information. Information that has a place it needs to go in order to be useful. We are problem solvers, but we are also transmitters. We need to build a new brain. This new ...
During the time, they are kind of "working out" and building up those flight muscles that will come in handy later, trying out some hippity-hops and cute little flutters, and more importantly, gaining some much-needed survival skills. ...
Or maybe you've found a brownish pod version of this, lying on the ground somewhere and wondered what they were. These are called "oak apples" or oak "gall". Most people assume it's some kind of little naturally occurring infection or something. Noooope. It's way more gross than ...
22-year-old Holly of Michigan shared the very awkward moment she had with her mom after seeing a picture she posted on Facebook of her son wearing a M.I.L.F. shirt. Credit: Amazon Holly's 54-year-old mother Rachel thought the termM.I.L.F.stood forMan I Love Frogsbecause her son...