Florida

So after crazy exams, reports and university applications, I get a week for the stresses and strains of the past few months to melt under the Sanibel Island sun.

Aftern only one day I'm already feeling better. My camera is being tempermental but I have managed to get some nice birdy pictures before it got upset.

This is my favourite Floridian bird, the Snowy Egret.
However, looking at this magnificant bird begs the question: Why the yellow feet?

This is an important and deep question. Being able to answer this would yeild a state close to zen... any takers?

Knitting Away

Look at this amazing piece of work! This is the result of spinning the greenish wool and knitting the rest! This marvious hat is only the second piece of work to come off the amazing knitting machine and look how perfect it is!

Lions

Everyone likes lions... big powerful creatures that fight off evil Hyenas... well at least sometimes anyway.

I recently finished writing a report on social living in lions (which I might post, depending on my mark ;) ) and was interested to find out that they are truely the ONLY cats that live in social groups, and it's actually only the females that live in the groups, the males just sorta hang around hopefully ;). And these ladies are tough! Many of you have probably heard that male lions new to a pride will come in and kill all the babies. What you might not know is that the females will put up a fight! If their cubs are old enough, they often leave, but when the cubs are too little to move far, these frightening ladies have been known to fight until they're mortally wounded!

My paper discusses the many different factors that combine to make pride-living a good idea for the lionesses, but this was one benefit that I found really interesting. (Multiple females have a better chance of running off males than a single lady does).

John Storr has provided Wikipedia Commons with a lovely picture of a lioness and her cubs.