MAMMALIAN WILDLIFE, part #3

This post is a continuation of "MAMMALIAN WILDLIFE part#1", posted for your entertainment on this blog on June 15, 2021, and "part 2", posted on May 5, 2022.

previously posted poems

(part #1)

angwantibo

bats

beaver

buffalo

California sea lion

coyotes, plastic

Cretan goat ("kri-kri")

(upsetting) gnus 

(part #2)

gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)

hippopotami / hippopotamuses

hoary marmots

horsing around

marine mammal madness

mongolian gerbils

(concupiscent) rabbits

raccoons in the city

CURRENT CONTENTS:
Raccoons in the swamp

Selfie with bison

Skunks

Star-nosed moles

Steller sea lions

Woodchucks

related verse: Aegean cats (3 verses, a brief saga)

Authors' Note: We are indebted to Bill Wingfield for contributing the idea for the previous poem. 

Authors' Note: It's hard to believe that there was a 'responsible driver' who let this young person out of the car to take this picture (isolated from a published video), but there you are. 

In national parks in both Canada and the United States, there are fines imposed for approaching wildlife too closely, and signage usually makes this abundantly clear.

A verse, and more pictures of the American bison (buffalo), can be found on this post. 

Authors' Note:  You can find a song about the star-nosed mole on our blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to access it! 

Authors' Note:  A falling birth rate due to 'nutritional stress' in females (along with ongoing hunting) has been proposed as a principal factor in the decline in the last century of Pacific Ocean populations of the Steller sea lion, Eumetopias jubatus. Although wanton polygamy has, to be honest, always been an option for females of this species of magnificent marine mammals, the particular efforts of concerned individuals like our heroine Bella may have contributed to a recent recovery.

   Current ecological terminology denotes a species whose population is stable in the wild and not threatened as of 'lesser concern'. In 2013, the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) took the Steller sea lion off its US Endangered Species List.

Authors' Note:  The woodchuck or groundhog is a large squirrel-like animal

best know for its extensive tunneling. Although herbivorous, it is not normally interested in eating or tossing wood, the latter being an activity for which 

it is poorly physically adapted. 

   Apparently, the name woodchuck is a corruption of the Algonquian word wejack; the name also is responsible for the American tongue-twister: 

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

 

(Note that the three verses of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.) 

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