ravens in trees

March 8, 2006

more ravens

They have the whole sky to play in.

I managed to steal some reading time this afternoon, William Langewiesche’s A Meditation on Flight. specifically the part where he explains how airplanes turn. For a brief time then, I was also in the sky, leaning, picturing how a plane rolls over so easily, then rights itself.

frogs: not taking the obvious route

You would think that any self-respecting, non-poisonous frog, given the chance, would mimic the look of the most toxic dart frog in its neighborhood. Not so Allobates zaparo. It copies the look of a less poisonous frog.

The reasons why are explained here.