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"Put that frog down at once!" did you heard this phrase often when you were a kid? (or these days) well, you're like me: every vacation was just another collecting expedition as an Amateur Naturalist (I was accepting every advice from Gerald Durrell how to catch insects and collect artefacts from nature). That said... I've just find out (that I never heard until now) about the series "The Durrells" based on his trilogy of his memories from Corfu. Also I'm eager to reread his most entertaining book> "My Family and Other Animals". But even the well packed, fact based book of his "The Amateur Naturalist" is entertaining. Don't you agree? Now back to our Noise, what I wanted to whistle about... look what I've just found. After a night storm, regular Summer phenomena, every naturalist can found a bunch of small creatures and items under the trees. So as I. Instead to smuggle them in my room (as in the heroic old days) now I've just captured them [in situ]. So I started the week with a new PhotoStudy: A collection of objects, creatures, parts from the Natural World, found on the pavement after a summer storm. I always wanted ... well, I always had a sort of Cabinet of Curiosities. Also I loved the biology laboratory with it's grand collection of specimen in my school years. So I was always on the hunt to find something interesting. Once I captured a pretty large grasshopper to show to the class when we return to the school... I packet well and carefully in my sweater and put it in to my bike's trunk or whatever... But as I arrived home and i've jumped down from my bicycle... all I've found it was a giant hole on it (I'm talking about the sweater). After some chat with my mom about why am I so careless and BTW other issues ... I was planning some kickass GrasshopperTrap ... but the project was dismissed due to other activities in the upcoming days. A glimpse to my vacation and little moments, tricks on how we can spice up our daily, 'boring' walks with some nature observing and collecting. Still to come> tomorrow another part of my Escaping Flowers, new Noise Experiments and I'm about to open that ancient folder with my trip to Portugal, which will be on Noise on TBT. Until than Wish you a stunning SummerWeek! ... another Note: Inside I wrote a quote abut frogs... and on that thought... I don't know what these American writers have with frogs - I mean even Mark Twain (“If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.”) Write in the comments while you're telling us your Summer Naturalist, adventurer stories. Take care! >D
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I am one of the children they used to tell "don't touch that frog", but of course I kept playing with them whenever I found them :) One of my adventurer stories as a child is when I found a small lizard and wanted badly to check if the rumor about cutting it's tale and have a new one, is true. I remember I almost was crying when I tried to do it, I didn't have a proper knife to do so, my brother tried to help me and finally he managed to do it. When the tail was in my brother's hands, I started to cry because the poor lizard was trying to walk properly and just couldn't :( (one of the many things I deserve to go to hell when I die :( ). Anyway, after 4-5 minutes watching her and don't let her go away, it finally happened! With our own eyes we saw the tale starting growing again! We just couldn't believe it! After 4-5 minutes more, the tale was almost 1/3 of the "original" we had, and lizard was capable to run and so she escaped. After all these years, when I see a lizard I remember this incident and want to pet her.
Oh, yes... lizards are wonderful creatures ... and pretty! The self-amputation behaviour when they are attacked by predators is common in many species among them... actually no need to cut the tail, just grab them and hold for a while... they away without it. Sometimes the tail doesn't come off properly so they'll grow a new one... I saw once a two tail lizard in this scenario... but it's not a rare thing as I first thought... Let's learn from the lizards: If our year turns bad, uncomfortable and stressing... let's just loose the tail and grow another one ... so the end of the year will be always better! All that said, thank you for sharing this adventure! And thank you for stepping by! Keep up, Noise up and let's look to the beautiful Nature! Take care and have a great week! >D
I've seen a two tail lizard as well, after many years I found out that it's quite common :) I like the way you mixed lizard tales and our souls - I guess we should be happy when we loose "our tales" and grow a new, stronger one! Have a great week you too :)