The large shell-less being here…. Regardless of species, size or even blood temperature, young beings like to play. Play helps improve motor coordination, sensory acuity, learning speed and overall confidence. Play is also fun! Malti came to me when she was just a month old – a true baby tort. She is a juvenile nowContinueContinue reading “Day 80: Tortoise Toys”
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Day 79: Surprising the Ladybirds
Single ladybirds love a good surprise. There is nothing more romantic than a well-choreographed surprise that looks spontaneous. This is why, if you are really serious about getting the girl during the ultra-competitive spring nesting season, you want to plan out your big surprise until it runs like clockwork. Your large featherless assistant is aContinueContinue reading “Day 79: Surprising the Ladybirds”
Day 78: Turtle Versus Tortoise
When you are born with a shell on your back, making sure your large shell-less assistant knows precisely which species you are can be pretty important. Unfortunately, your taxonomony (what the shell-less beings call your rank, file and serial number, aka your classification) doesn’t exactly make this easy. Technically, all shelled beings are “turtles.” YetContinueContinue reading “Day 78: Turtle Versus Tortoise”
Day 77: The Lap Tortoise
When you really, really, really want snacks – and not just any snacks but the GOOD ones – the best thing to do is to climb up into your mama’s lap. She definitely won’t expect it. She will be overcome with cuteness. She will “ooh” and “aah” over you. She will give you lots ofContinueContinue reading “Day 77: The Lap Tortoise”
Day 76: The Great Grape Gang Gripe
In the world of super-secret “black ops” agents, there is such a concept as “organized crime.” To the general public, this sounds really scary, as well it should. But when you have top secret clearance, you know something the masses don’t – “organized crime” doesn’t mean “organized criminals.” As the famous and feathery actor whoContinueContinue reading “Day 76: The Great Grape Gang Gripe”
Day 75: Marvelous Meaty Mealworms
Dinnertime in an interspecies flock can sure get interesting. There is your small loud feathery brother, who seems intent on repopulating the forest floor with his evening rice….not to mention anything else flingable he can purloin from his mommy’s dinner plate. Then there is your round and robust shelled sister who is always hungry andContinueContinue reading “Day 75: Marvelous Meaty Mealworms”
Day 74: Slow and Speedy
As a cold blooded being living in a mostly warm blooded world, you have to face many misconceptions. One of the most enduring of these is that having cold blood means you are slow-moving. As if. Happily, this is a particularly easy mis-belief to remedy. All you have to do is wait until your largeContinueContinue reading “Day 74: Slow and Speedy”
Day 73: A Berry Bad Disguise
Being a top notch “black ops” agent with feathers definitely has its up days. On these days, you out-stealth the stealthiest opponents, bring down the bad guys, win (waffle-shaped) medals, make the world a better, safer place. Unfortunately, black ops work isn’t all glamour and glory. Even .007 has days when the criminals are slowContinueContinue reading “Day 73: A Berry Bad Disguise”
Day 72: Scoping for Lady Turtles
When you are an exceptionally handsome male 3-toed box turtle (and even the horrid scary shell-less beings in the white lab coats say so), the end of hibernation and the start of spring means you have just one thing on your mind. Lady turtles. Less motivated beings might think you’d be keen for a heftyContinueContinue reading “Day 72: Scoping for Lady Turtles”
Day 71: Everyone Wants a Shell
Being born with a shell on your back is pretty much the best. All you have to do is look around you to see that everyone else wants one of their own. There are so many shell-shaped structures in the world! Your large shell-less assistant even brings some of them home and puts them intoContinueContinue reading “Day 71: Everyone Wants a Shell”
Love & Feathers & Shells 