Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search];~)) Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 3:07 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Maybe if I ignore him . . . > When I was a kid we did not have armadillos in these parts. > > I think after the bridges were built across the Sabine river we started to > get all kinds of wildlife coming into Louisiana that even the gators could > not overcome. > > Now, in addition we have Jindal, and it looks like Perry has been coming > over to visit to do some fund-raising. > > Maybe if we don't feed the gators for awhile.... > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:59 PM, R. Clayton McKee > <rcmphoto at yahoo.com>wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Richard Man <richard at >> richardmanphoto.com >> >wrote: >> >> > That's an armadillo! >> > >> > Sonny, did Kitty-Bob pounce next? Do armadillo bite or attack normally? >> > (know nothing about them except some photos) >> > >> >> >> Armadillo are casually known as hardshell possum. Closeup they resemble >> a >> cross between a possum and a rock, and they generally have mental >> candlepower somewhere between the two. Now, given that a possum has been >> described by a zoologist I know as "not really bright enough to be a >> quadruped" (and in the next breath, "Possibly the stupidest multi-celled >> organism in existence"), well.... >> >> They are dangerous in only two possible ways: 1. They've been reported >> as >> carriers of leprosy but I vaguely recall that the strain they get (the >> only >> animal other than man to do so) is not contagious to humans, and 2. >> They'll >> dig up ANYTHING and EVERYTHING and do enough damage to the ground that >> horses will break legs and gardening humans will shoot at them - and >> miss, >> resulting in flying lead at ground level, which is inherently hazardous. >> >> >> It's a safe bet that this critter didn't even know kittybob was there; >> their sensory inputs and capacity for analysing them are somewhat ... >> limited. They can't see more than an inch beyond their noses and their >> sense of smell is about the same range. I've had them litterally trundle >> up >> to me, bounce off my boot, turn around, bounce off the OTHER boot, and >> then >> wander away none the wiser. >> >> I'm told they're edible. I'm fairly sure you'd have to be beyond >> starving. >> >> >> R. Clayton McKee >> PhotoJournalist >> from somewhere just south of somewhere else... >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > Sonny > http://sonc.com/look/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana > > USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >