Lion man

Part of the Pride
Paddatjie, my colleague tells me is pronounced as padykie and is a little frog. Padda is a frog. I overheard that Afrikaans is a language just a few months ago at a birthday party. He says that it is very similar to Dutch.
Kudu
Eternal enemies documentary. Lions and hyenas, one preying the young of the other.
White eye

Likeable Experimenter

Carrying the heart
Lazzaro Spallanzani

Why are unicorns always under attack?

The Natural History of Unicorns

Ctesias
Chiru
Kiang
Verteuil Tapestries
Khutu
Takin
Unbelievable SDZoo
okapi
Rishyasringa
While most animals have horns on their heads, tusks grow downwards. If man had some strong weapon like those sharp things, how different would our evolutionary path have been?

When things breakdown

Medical Mysteries
Tree Man from Indonesia makes us appreciate our functional immune system.
TMAU

Fair Day

Can a person who judges have mercy?

In a crystal ball

I should have written this long time ago, when it happened.
Have you ever felt like you are in a crystal ball?
A month ago, I went stargazing with friends. Four peaks ecen though very close to the freeway was far enough from th Phoenix city lights that only one side of the view had a hint of civilization. If you turn your back on the city, above and around you is a multitude of stars. There is the Milky Way. As shooting stars went, they became as common as dragonflies near a water source. We waited for the Orion to appear, not in the magical - whole of it at once, but in his imperfect, incomplete form with parts of his body showing up with patience on our part like a baby making its way from beneath the mountains. During my undergrad, I used the university telescope and the night I saw the ring around Saturn, I went home like Alice who is just back from her rabbit hole excursion. That was a time when I thought reading Antony and Cleopatra (keeping my engineering books aside during a college festival) would immerse me in their world and I will still be safe, back in time when my professors and the student world is ready to go over the lessons. The easiest to remember was Cassioepia. Easiest to spot too. When I looked at Pleides, the detail even through my binoculars got it alive for me. When I was showm Andromeda, the concept of light years picked from Carl Sagan's novel Contact still seems like a fairy tale. When I was told that it will take over a year to follow some points and see a good chunk of it, I started relating it to birdwatching. Seasons. I once had a very beautiful dream where I saw all the zodiac signs and clearly in their meant shapes.
I recall 'Two on a Tower' by Thomas Hardy, imagining as the person who looks to the sky.

Persona

Is persona free from fate?