Animals are hard

They need to be sequential threads.

I think I have some nail polish colors in ‘Regret’ and ‘Nucleus’, Robdog. Have you considered going into cosmetics industry as a make-up namer? :wink:

The narrator in The Art of Coarse Sailing describes his terror of swans as stemming from being told as a boy that they are capable of breaking a man’s arm with a blow of their wing - since when he has imagined that they go around doing nothing else all day.

Due to the fact Rob Dog mentions, I’m perfectly content to accept Lavender Green as a color. Hell, make it a random shade of burgundy for extra WTF.

I’m reminded by this of a place in Essex (England) called Ugley Green*. I’d love to attend a meeting of the Ugley Green Women’s Institute at the Ugley Green Village Halll.

  • I’m sure the inhabitants pronounce it Oo-glay.

I think (just think) there are some parts of the world where all cats of genus panthera are called commonly tigers.

Actually I heard they’re quite proud of their name and even hold a “Miss Ugley” contest.

Excellent!

No doubt it rivals the competition held 14 miles away in Nasty, Hertfordshire.

I don’t think so. Arctic foxes are good at not getting eaten while stealing food from bigger predators such as bears and wolverines.

All I have on my pajama pants is a great big elephant’s trunk. But that’s because I sleep in the buff.

Or possibly a cobbler’s bench.

Overheard at the San Diego Zoo reptile house:

Kid (pointing at Komodo dragon) Hey Mom! Look! A giant lizard!
Mom: That’s a monitoring lizard, honey.

Works for the NSA no doubt.

They definitely end up as lunch in the wild if a polar bear is feeling hungry though. I thought that would be a rather stressful existence, being in the same cage as a predator of yours! But I assume the zoo knows what its doing.

I like arctic-foxes, they’re one of my favourite beasties.

I guess polar bears are a bit more voracious than brown bears, especially if said bears are properly fed.

ETA And I mean European brown bears, not the grizzly or Kodiak variants.

Yes, I see what you mean. I suppose I just kind of assumed they’d have their own seperate enclosure.

I like equatorial foxes, they tend to wear less clothes.

“How the elephant got on my pajamas, I’ll never know.” :smiley: