Category Archives: Animalia
Yarns about Mountain Lions
Ask local folk if mountain lions (aka cougars/ pumas/ panthers) still prowl the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia and you’ll likely get a nod or they might bend your ear to tell a tale. But if you visit the WV … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, Memoir
Tagged Division of Natural Resources, mountain lion, Pocahontas County, West Virginia
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Living or Livid with Nature?
We weren’t always doggedly efficient extirpators—of insects for eating crops and stinging, of moles for spoiling perfect lawns, of predators for preying on livestock, and so on and on … Not so long ago, humans tolerated annoying wildlife with a … Continue reading
Alpha in a Wolf Pack is a Fallacy
Studies of wild wolves reveal family and without pecking order Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, nature, Wildlife conservation
Tagged Ellesmere Island, Lamar Valley, operant conditioning, Wolves, Yellowstone National Park
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Virginia is for Oyster Lovers
“Why then the world’s mine oyster, which I with sword will open.” Thus, Shakespeare gave us a new idiom in the Merry Wives of Windsor repeated ever since, and Oscar Wilde wielded it with customary wit: “The world was my … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, Environment, nature
Tagged Chesapeake Bay, Oscar Wilde, oyster, Shakespeare, VIMS, York River
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About Giant Eggs & Double Yolks
This week’s gift from a neighbor’s chicken coop included one extra-large egg. After hard-boiling and cracking open we found a double yolk, which some say is a good omen on our wedding anniversary. The following conversation over a meal would … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, Assisted reproductive technology, Fertility, nature
Tagged blastocyst, Human egg or oocyte, IVF and ARTs
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 