MAMMALIAN WILDLIFE (pack#4)

 

    This post is a continuing collection of poems about 'MAMMALIAN WILDLIFE', as posted on this blog on September 5, 2022 (pack #1), September 5, 2023 (pack #2), and September 5, 2024 (pack #3)

previous poetic posts (Note that captions are available for poems displayed on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" in slide format since January, 2024).

(pack #1): angwantibos, bats, beaver, buffalo, California sea lions, coyotes. 

(pack #2): cretan goats (kri-kri), gnus, gorillas, hippopotami, hoary marmots, horses.

(pack #3): marine mammals, mongolian gerbils, rabbits, raccoons in the city, raccoons in the swamp, rat-trap.

CURRENT CONTENTS (pack #4):
Selfie with bison
Skunks

Star-nosed moles

Steller sea lions

Woodchucks.

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! 

Additional 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.

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?

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