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He's SOOOOO cute.. aww widdle cuddle bug just wants looooooveee. I'm going to hold him and squeeze him and never let him go.
Wikipedia and Google.... the needles to my tangent habit.
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That special feeling we get in the cockles of our hearts, Or maybe below the cockles, Maybe in the sub-cockle area, Maybe in the liver, Maybe in the kidneys, Maybe even in the colon, We don't know.
I wonder how many Europeans would even recognize what it really is, considering that there aren't any members of that entire infraclass living in Europe?
Of course I don't recognise something I'm not familiar with, doesn't stop me from knowing it isn't a cat (plus - it seems some residents of US don't even know that )
BTW, would you recognise beech marten? (yep, I've seen it also in cities, though least weasel much more often)
Of course I don't recognise something I'm not familiar with, doesn't stop me from knowing it isn't a cat (plus - it seems some residents of US don't even know that )
BTW, would you recognise beech marten? (yep, I've seen it also in cities, though least weasel much more often)
No real point, just wondering out loud. And no, I wouldn't specifically recognize a beech marten (but I would recognize it as a mustelid, they're not uncommon in the US.) That poster just made me think about the difference between "Old World" and "New World" animals and how people from different continents would be confused. For example, I'm not sure how many people in the US would immediately recognize a hedgehog (they might think it was a tiny porcupine.)
It's the Robin that gets me. The American one is the size (and morphology) of a blackbird.
The European one is the size of a sparrow and is very aggressive (you never see two together except when mating).
Two totally different birds, in every way, except that they both sometimes have red breasts and are both migratory (we have one that winters in our garden every year)
I wonder how many Europeans would even recognize what it really is, considering that there aren't any members of that entire infraclass living in Europe?
Looks like some kind of ferret or weasel (ofcourse all ferrets are weasels). And yes, we also have ferrets, weasels, martens and minks (all of which share similiarities in appearance) in Europe.
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