I just have a couple of things to do here today, and I'll start with the answers from yesterday's Real or Fake Animal game. Nobody won, but keep trying! The fun is in the playing, not necessarily the winning, right? Right? Hello? Anyone?
A). Fake - It started out as some cactus thingie before I "dunked" it in Photoshop.
B). Real - Vulturine Guinea Fowl.
Can I just say how much I love this bird? It's got sort of an ugly head, but the most beautiful feathers ever! Don't you just love how nature works?
I posted just its head for the game, so here's a full body pic of it. Do yourself a favor and take a look.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Vulturine_Guineafowl.JPG
And if you follow this link you can read all about the species.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulturine_Guineafowl
C). Real - Amazonia Leaf-foot Bug
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artour_a/2271182074/
D). Real - Cantor's Soft-Shelled Turtle
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/cantors-softshell.html#cr
E). Real - Hickory Horned Devil (Cool name, or what?). This guy is so awesome I thought he derserved a VIDEO LINK! Check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT52brviTGI&feature=related
F). Fake - It started out as an underwater plant, but I erased its stem in Photoshop.
G). Real - Pompeii worm
H). Real - Pink Farie armadillo
I). Real - Muscovy Duck
A lot of people guessed that Mr. Muscovy was a fake. Happy to disappoint, because he's real and super cool. Just watch this VIDEO to see for yourself!
J). Real - Lesser Mouse Deer
I'm going VIDEO crazy today, but I think it's important to see these animals as living, breathing creatures who share this beautiful planet with us. Don't forget, you can Google any of the ones that you want to learn more about, and I knoooooow you want to learn more about all of them, so get Googling!
Okay, I'm going to end today's blog on a downer. I want to remind everyone how important it is to do everything we can to take care of every precious species, from the rare to the common. We can't take any of them for granted. Not too long ago, the Passenger Pigeon was one of the most abundant species in North America, traveling in flocks that sometimes stretched a mile across the sky. But people hunted it to extinction, for its meat, and now it's gone.
Someday it's possible that the common cat could be extinct, or the rainbow trout, or blue jays. Right now honeybees and frogs are disappearing at an alarming rate.
So be grateful for all of the wonderful animals we have to enjoy and learn about and interact with and never take them for granted.
I'm leaving you guys today with a slide show of animals that have disappeared within the last five hundred years, some much more recent. Something to think about.
Your Pal, Lucy
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