Privately, the platypus feels
it’s only rotten luck
that people don’t refer instead
to the platypus-billed duck.
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Month: April 2008
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The larger moon, Phobos, is indeed seen to be a cratered, asteroid-like object in this stunning color image from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, recorded at a resolution of about seven meters per pixel.
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Napowrimo #14: The mason bird
The remarkable nest of the weaver bird
is passably well known;
less famous is the mason bird
which carves a nest from stone.
The proportions can be clumsy;
there’s a tendency to schlock,
a rather Disney mixture
of the Gothic and Baroque;
some ornamental flourishes
are let down by poor technique.
But not bad for a bird holding
a chisel in its beak.
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[I did write one for yesterday, but it was purely to say I’d written one and even by Napo standards it wasn’t worth posting]
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Napowrimo #12: Giraffe
The usual way to spot giraffe
is by their penetrating laugh;
so those which are a bit dejected
frequently go undetected.
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Cool Mars maps at BibliOdyssey.
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Nature in the cracks: the evolution of different behaviour in urban daisy species when they grow in small patches of earth in a largely concrete environment.
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Napowrimo #11: Chicken poem
A chicken is really just a duck
who makes the lifestyle choice to cluck.