Torsade Literary Space Billions: The Domestic Cat as Scapegoat
My Curious Reading Billions The Domestic Cat as Scapegoat A 2013 Telegraph (UK) headline, based on US reporting, reads in part: …deadly pets murder nearly 4 billion birds a year. Cats, they mean. Now, for one thing, murder is an […]
My Curious Reading: Planet Earth and the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
My Curious Reading Planet Earth and the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Dr. Underhill said, if we would destroy insects, we must preserve birds. Birds which run up the trunks of trees, like the Woodpeckers, are of especial benefit. They dig out the larvae of insects from the bark and devour it. A Cat-bird […]