Music soothes the savage beast —
or so the Romans said, at least —
but you still need to identify
what kind of beast you’re threatened by.
Gators loathe Puccini but are calmed by Johann Strauss;
crocodiles hate everything that isn’t acid house.
» Actually, the main source of that quote in English seems to be William Congreve, who really said [...]
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Napowrimo #17: Music hath charms
17 April 2008 – 10:24 pm
Bird of the Year 2007: best performances in a supporting role
5 January 2008 – 4:22 pm
Best Plant
There’s lots of choice here; I’ll just give a hat-tip to the big trees of Kew Gardens and Greenwich Park which I got over excited about in the autumn.
But most of the possibilities were in Crete. Crete has more species of plant than the UK, and a bundle of them are endemics. In spring, [...]
bird of the year: best performances in a supporting role
6 January 2007 – 12:53 am
Best Plant
All those rainforest plants were nice, and I enjoyed taking wildflower photos while I was in Spain. But, not least because it’s nice to pick a winner that I can actually identify, I’m going for the Galapagos Prickly Pear, Opuntia echios. On islands where there are giant tortoises and land iguanas, they’ve evolved woody [...]
In the Galapagos
26 October 2006 – 6:01 pm
I´ve got a couple of hours in Puerto Ayora (on Santa Cruz, in the Galapagos), so I thought I´d post a quick note.
I can recommend the Galapagos. For a start, the landscape is more varied and more beautiful than I expected; somehow in my head it was all rocks, but from island to island the [...]
Top ten animals - #7, Leatherback Turtle
18 January 2006 – 3:10 pm
Next up is the Leatherback Turtle, Dermochelys coriacea.
I’ve wanted to seeone of these since I saw a stuffed specimen at the Natural History Museum as a kid. I couldn’t believe how big it was. They grow to eight feet long and bulky with it. As you can see in this picture of people from the [...]
the difference between reptiles and amphibians
5 May 2005 – 1:53 pm
[EDIT: People keep finding this site by Googling 'the difference between reptiles and amphibians' This is the basic answer:
Amphibians are frogs, toads, newts, salamanders and caecilians.
Reptiles are snakes, tortoises, turtles, lizards, crocodiles, alligators and a few other oddities. Dinosaurs were reptiles.
Reptiles are more fully adapted to life on land than amphibians. The biggest difference is [...]