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[Ptilinopus]

Up the same Turama River, at the village of Koumaio, my Dad witnessed another religious cassowary. It was regional camp meeting, and a bush materials hall had been built - long, narrow, and with an isle down the middle. Women and girls to the left, men and boys to the right - elders at the back, kids at the front - local custom. The preacher stood up to preach, and a very young cassowary stalked in the back, right down the isle, looking neither right nor left, and squatted down right in front of the pulpit, fixing its beady eyes on the preacher. When he finished preaching and sat down, the cassowary stood up, turned and stalked right out again! A great example for the restless kids there!

 

[djconklin]

Some pics of a cassowary: http://australian-animals.net/casso.htm

 

[djconklin]

I hate to tell you this DJC, but you had better hope that that squirrel only wants to explore your room and not the inside of your pants leg. GRIN!

Doc

I've had cats do that with my bathrobe! 20 little razor blades digging into your skin as they are trying to shinny up your leg!

 

[Riddick]

that squirrels like animal crackers?

Then there's the two lazy one's who lie down to eat their peanut.

Then there's one that has to get his on the floor, so I have to bend over! Maybe the Good Lord is trying to get me some exercise?

or the good lord expects you to pick up one of these, then pick up the peanut. but, in this case, is the lord using tomfoolery to trick you into grip exercise?

 

[djconklin]

Who said the squirrels like dog food?!?!?!?!?!

Actually I knew some ground squirrels that would steal the dog's food.

So I make a special trip to the store and buy some dog food (works out to be slightly less than $1/lb), get more peanuts ($1.60/lb) for me and as along as I'm there lets try a small bag of green grapes ($3/lb)--I knew one little squirrel that gobbled one of those right up.

The one at the window (as soon as I was up!) sniffs the dog food and it's like he shakes his head saying "No!"; meanwhile the one down on the ground out by the sidewalk see's me and races for the building. I throw him one, he ignores it. I set a bunch on the outside and inside windowsill--they were ignored (so far anyway). Then I put two on the desk beside me. I put one practically in the mouth of ther squirrel trhat comes inside. He drops it immediately! "No, no, no we want peanuts." I try a grape--of course, he'll eat that (it's the most expensive one you've got!). Then he comes back and I know I have to go get the peanuts!

(with a lilt here)We(end lilt) have a high-class squirrels!

And after all this he eats one lousy peanut and leaves!

Squirrel #2 (from above) just showed up. He was on the back of my chair (never been there before) when I came out of the kitchen. He didn't eat the grape. He got down on the floor and then with coaxing climbed up my leg to get his peanut.

 

[djconklin]

I just saw a neat video at cbsnews.com with a small duck and puppy--very cute!

 

[djconklin]

He got down on the floor and then with coaxing climbed up my leg to get his peanut.

This same squirrel just came in and wandered around in my apartment checking out every room!

 

[djconklin]

Just got another one to reach up my leg a bit to get her peanut--that's when I noticed how dirty my pant leg was from the squirrel climbing my leg yesterday!

 

[djconklin]

The father's gene determine the height of the child; the mother's genes the weight!
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And if you don't get the peanut to the squirrel fast enough he'll jump over onto the back of your chair!
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"At the end of the 19th century, the Reverend William A. Spooner, Dean and Warden of New College, Oxford, earned a place in history when a new word based on his name was coined—'spoonerism'. He probably would have preferred a different reason for his claim to fame since the word was based on his reputation, perhaps sometimes apocryphal, for producing speech errors (unintentional departures from what he meant to say) such as "Work is the curse of the drinking classes" when he meant to say "Drink is the curse of the working classes", "noble tons of soil" for "noble sons of toil","you have hissed my mystery lectures; you have tasted the whole worm" for "you have missed my history lectures; you have wasted the whole term", and probably his most famous 'spoonerism', "queer old dean" when referring to dear old Queen Victoria."

found at http://www.lsadc.org/info/ling-fields-slip.cfm