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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Zzzzzzzz...

The Walking Stick Insect
of South America often loses an antenna or leg—but
always grows a new appendage. Often nature makes a
mistake and a new antenna grows where the leg was lost.
—Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Eventually the
most accident-prone
or war-weary
walking sticks
are entirely
reduced to antennae
with which they
pick their way
sensitively,
appalled by
everything’s
intensity.
-Kay Ryan

6 comments:

Jen said...

:-/

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

_______\/
(((((((((((oo)

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...that's supposed to be a bug. :(

Jen said...

Cute bug, fj.

©(:^)

That's a lady with her hair up in a bun. I made it up.

FreeThinke said...

Fascinating! -- the INSECT that is. The "singer" has one of those weak mouths that looks as though it might start to drool any second. EEEEUW!

Thersites said...

We can't all be choirboys. ;)