stick with the beasts we got plz #4: the ROC
yes yes it is the biggest bird ever SO WHAT?
i. it is telling i think that the roc’s EGG features more in stories than roc herself ii. haha “a roc chick”
conclusion: cf also the ZIZ, n[…]

Hamsters I have known — when growing up I wished to have a hamster, as I thought them cute and furry. And so over the course of about five years, from 1980 to 1985, I owned three hamsters in succession, the first two of which passed on peacefu[…]

stick with the beasts we got plz #3: the ANT LION
so this lion and this ant got it on and hey presto! The cub-larva has big cat’s face, insect’s thorax, eats only that which is both meat and grain, hence ie starves STRAIGHT AWAY!!
i. i[…]

The rabbit occupies an unusual position in the animal kingdom. Some people keep pet sheep, cows or chickens. Some people eat guinea pigs and dogs. But only the rabbit enjoys widespread popularity as companion and comestible. I’m quite lucky in […]

neoteny n. The retention of juvenile characteristics in the adults of a species
Such as being amused by nob gags? I suspect not. The film Team America: World Police is packed with juvenile humour – it appealled only to the base, the vulgar, tho[…]

Alix writes:
Narwhals are rarely seen and their lifestyle is poorly documented. They live in the Arctic but churlishly avoid Siberia and Alaska. Their most distinctive feature is their ridiculous tusk. Only the males have this tusk (females being too[…]

narnian bible studies: or good beast/bad beast
ok there are dozens of spots in the chronicles of narnia where you think EXCUSE ME just what kind of xtianity does mr clive staples lewis think he is propagandisin FOR plz thkyou, eg in last battle alon[…]

Walking With Myths has been my #1 why-isn’t-this-on-TV idea for years now: using spiffy CGI beast-animation technology to bring to life loads of fake animals* with a narration that asks if and why people believed in them in the first place. Now[…]

Thanks to Nick for bringing this to our attention. Wang’s course of action in the final paragraph strikes me as foolhardy.[…]

“the WORMS of the AIR!!”
(i heart bestiaries – even THIS one which has a v.v.pompous-ass cease-and-desist death-to-antirockist-scholarship policy abt picture-linking)[…]