Excellent find! Wowsa!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@>
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" <steve.sundur@> wrote:
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> > I'm so glad you picked up on this Steve!
> >
> > It is one of the most wonderful uses of technology isn't it?
> > The way the mother (sometimes the father) waddles in with
> > talons balled up to gather them together to keep them warm
> > is one of the cutest most tender things I have ever seen.
> > And the fact that it is all live rather than manically
> > edited for action, action, action, as in most animal shows,
> > makes watching them such a Zen privileged. How about seeing
> > the mother and father delicately feeding them with that
> > linoleum cutter beak! The whole thing is magic. For those
> > who want to check it out:
> >
> > http://www.raptorresource.org/
>
> For those into this "Awwwwwwww" animal thang (and I...uh...
> sheepishly admit to being one of them), here's a cool slide
> show of some of the 1300 new species of fellow sentient
> beings discovered on this planet recently. 1300. That's
> way cool, IMO, and kinda offsets a lot of the Bad News
> we hear on the News. Man, if there had been a Yoda Bat
> when I was growing up -- let alone growing up as a hippie
> -- I would have SO had one of these dudes as a pet.
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/13/new-species-2011-conservation-international_n_848787.html
>
> The Chinchilla Tree Rat rocks, too. Dude would just drop
> right in at one of my parties. The Walking Shark is too
> weird even for me; you either swim or you walk -- doing
> both is ego. The Ghanaian arachnid reminds me of the
> night I was out at Joshua Tree in the middle of the night
> with my girlfriend and we ran into the Tarantula That
> Ate Chicago. Bigger than my fuckin' SUV. At least at
> the time. :-)
>
