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Animal news: Uh, whose flesh exactly?

From Harper’s Weekly Review (especially loopy this week): [S]quirrels in California developed a taste for flesh. That’s it? That’s all you’re going to tell us about this alarming development in squirrelology? What happened to nuts? Aren’t nuts good enough nowadays? … Continue reading

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Big animal news! A large coyote in Central Park

He is big. (Actually, I don’t know that it’s a He.)

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Animal news: My last python.

At least, I think so. Many years after my experience in the House of Reptiles at the Bronx Zoo, I was walking home on Bleecker Street when I spotted an odd configuration on the opposite sidewalk. A group of people, … Continue reading

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