excessive understatement
Ever since getting a bird feeder (and a yard), I've paid more attention to the nature columns in the local paper. Their bird watching column in the Sunday paper does a good job, by and large. Sure, I've heard conflicting versions of the story of why we're seeing robins in Columbus in the winter -- one version says that invasive bushes bring deceptively unnourishing berries which persuade the birds to winter over and then die, while another version says that our robins go down south, and the robins we're seeing right now are Canadian robins, who come down to enjoy our relatively benign climate. I'm hoping the latter explanation is true. But anyway, I haven't objected to anything I read in there.
Until today.
I like the article itself -- it helps explain why Dan Simmons chose to call his spiky future nemesis thing "the Shrike". But whoever captioned the picture of the bird didn't think through it very well.
Is there any carnivorous animal which *isn't* "deadly to its prey"?
Until today.
I like the article itself -- it helps explain why Dan Simmons chose to call his spiky future nemesis thing "the Shrike". But whoever captioned the picture of the bird didn't think through it very well.
Is there any carnivorous animal which *isn't* "deadly to its prey"?