8/6/2023 0 Comments Beaver have platypus tail![]() Teaching apostrophes with lessons ready to teach - readilearn.Spelling tests - How well do you score?.My Brain is Magic by Prasha Sooful and Geeta Ladi – a review – #readilearn.Love me, Love my ADHD by Chrissie Davies – a review – #readilearn.My Brain is Magic by Prasha Sooful and Geeta Ladi – a review – #readilearn.My story Impossible Creature follows it.Ĭonnect with me on Facebook Spreading mutual admiration and gratitude Proud member #FFRodeo 2020 2020 HM Folk Tale or Fable #FFRODEO 2017 #FFRODEO 2017 Spreading peace and humanity through social media Recent Posts You may enjoy this video about the platypus. I hope I’ve captured its uniqueness in both my poem and my story. The first scientists who studied the platypus, thought it was a fake, made up of the body parts of several animals. When Europeans first arrived in Australia, they had never seen anything like the platypus, which is an egg-laying mammal, or monotreme. It began more as an explanation of my response which follows. ![]() The poem, although it is 99 words, isn’t really my response to the prompt. You might know this creature better as the platypus. Dennis for this poem poorly modelled on his wonderful Triantiwontigongolope which you can read in full here.) ![]() Its name can be quite tricky, but you’ll learn it without fuss. If you come across it, I urge you not to scream. It swims around in waters while having not one fin. ![]() It burrows into riverbanks to lay its eggs therein. Its bill and feet are duck-like but it has a poisonous spur. It’s something like an otter with body dressed in fur. It isn’t quite a beaver, though it has a beaver’s tail,Ī freshwater-living mammal, much smaller than a whale. We don’t have beavers in Australia and I’d neither heard, nor heard of, a beaver slap before. Is a beaver slap the name of something - a new type of burger, perfume, or a sci-fi gadget? Take ecological and poetic licenses. It can be an actual tail slap warning on the water or an imitation. This week at the Carrot Ranch, Charli Mills challenged writers to In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about a beaver slap. ![]()
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