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Animal news about certain critters

From Harper’s Weekly Review: The wild rat population of Washington, D.C., was administered birth control, and a woman turned to Reddit to secure an arachnoid sexual partner for her virginal pet tarantula.

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“Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats…

…and bit the babies in their cradles…” I memorized a big chunk of Robert Browning’s “The Pied Piper of Hamelin,” as an assignment in some public school grade or other. I can still rattle most of it off. (How wondrous … Continue reading →

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