Archive for the ‘wildlife’ Category

Zebraaaaa

This has prob­a­bly been done before, but I don’t care.

Encyclopaedia Britannica on Zebra:

any of three species of strik­ingly black-and-white-striped mam­mals of the horse fam­ily Equidae (genus Equus): Burchell’s, or plains, zebra (E. burchel­lii), which is found in rich grass­lands over much of east­ern and south­ern Africa; Grevy’s zebra (E. grevyi), which lives in arid, sparsely wooded areas in Kenya and a few small areas in Ethiopia; and the moun­tain zebra (E. zebra), which inhab­its dry upland plains in Namibia and a few scat­tered areas in west­ern South Africa.

Typographical Zebra

My typo­graph­i­cal study of a zebra

 

 

The Walrus

The BBC on Walruses:

“The wal­rus (Odobenus ros­marus) is a large flip­pered marine mam­mal with a dis­con­tin­u­ous cir­cum­po­lar dis­tri­b­u­tion in the Arctic Ocean and sub-Arctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. The wal­rus is the only liv­ing species in the Odobenidae fam­ily and Odobenus genus. It is sub­di­vided into three sub­species: the Atlantic Walrus (O. ros­marus ros­marus) found in the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Walrus (O. ros­marus diver­gens) found in the Pacific Ocean, and O. ros­marus laptevi, found in the Laptev Sea.”

Note how the plural of “Walrus” is in fact “Walruses” and not “Walri”. This is because the word has mod­ern ger­manic roots and not clas­si­cal latin.

And now, the Walrus of Space:

Walrus

The Walrus of Space

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See also: The Whale of Time.