I’ve only encountered quokkas once – on Rottnest Island, where they waylay cyclists in order to get food.

One of them scratched my hand while grabbing some food, so paying heed to signposted warnings about salmonella in the local quokka population, I cycled around to the local nurse’s hut. I explained what had happened, and got this deadpan stare from her “oh poor diddums does we think we’re going to die?”

I mumbled a protest about the sign, and she just indicated the sink “oh go wash your hands”.

also, i had to google jerboas and capuchin monkeys. is that bad?

I thought a jerboa was a plant but on reflection I was probably thinking of a gerbera.

E. & Eric: Also you both share the distinction of being banned from this blog! Jerboas, indeed.

is it bad that i have to google two of those animals just to know what they are?

p.s. i think the comment preview whatsit has died.

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* domesticated ones, mind you. i’m not too big on the wild rats, though they can be cute sometimes.

but uhm… sloths scare me… I have a sloth! My nina adopted one at a zoo under my name…

however sloths are pretty awesome. from the wikipedia entry:

Sloths’ claws serve as their only natural defense. A cornered sloth may swipe at its attackers in an effort to scare them away or wound them. Despite sloths’ apparent defenselessness, predators do not pose special problems: in the trees sloths have good camouflage and, moving only slowly, do not attract attention . . . They are particularly partial to nesting in the crowns of palm trees where they can camouflage as coconuts. They come to the ground to urinate and defecate only about once a week. Infant sloths normally cling to their mother’s fur, but occasionally fall off. Sloths are very sturdily built and rarely die from a fall . . . Females normally bear one baby every year, but sometimes sloths’ lack of movement actually keeps females from finding males for longer than one year.

That’s just cool.

. . . here ends ‘fun facts about sloths’.

~Mary

Though I’d like to point out this is how many polls are run. Why in Australia we had a whole referendum on getting rid of the monarchy that was much more rigged.

Proceed Justine, but know that it is under protest…

and while i am from florida, i live in new york right now. so i understand your suffering (my fingers are close to frozen right now). while i’m not a big ourdoorsy person, i am very satisfied to know that when i’m home in florida there is SUN outside my window. it makes me exponentially happy to know that the sun is there ready to shine down on me. but i like the air conditioning more than most folks. i don’t actually like being hot…

but the storms are nice!

good luck revising!