Arctodus23
Posts: 322 Joined: Mar. 2013
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Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ April 28 2013,08:56) | Quote (Arctodus23 @ April 28 2013,08:50) | Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ April 28 2013,08:29) | This is a view near dawn of the side yard, looking mostly to the west. Part of small pond on left, woodpecker nest tree slightly right of center.
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When I was in Florida, I actually saw a:
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I live a bit far north and in too close to town to expect to see one of those. I haven't kept up; back in 2010 there were a bit more than a hundred panthers, and that included the females imported from Texas to try to counter the various genetic problems that the small Florida population was showing, like "kinked tail".
Whenever I drove across Alligator Alley, I had to hope that I would not encounter one at high speed on the road. It would have been a bit tough to explain to my colleagues at work. |
Funny...It looked like you lived in south of Costa Rica Florida. There is still I think 160, maybe 200 now. There was another genetic problem, where the mails only had one testicle, or maybe even none.
-------------- "At our church’s funerals, we sing gospel songs (out loud) to God." -- FL
"So the center of the earth being hotter than the surface is a "gross
violation of the second law of thermodynamics??" -- Ted Holden
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