Constantly moving, omnivorous, with a disarming smile. If only it didn’t get into so many fights. Meet the Tasmanian devil.
As with every marsupial, it’s not quite clear what’s going on here. It just happens that the mammals inhabiting the Australian continent are the avant-garde of the chordates, individualists shaped by millions of years of geographical isolation from the rest of
Beavers are doing better and better in Poland! And that is excellent news because they are our allies in the fight against drought.
I had never heard such excited noises as those that Jorge was making. Jorge was a North American beaver and we met at his home in Puerto Williams, where I discovered from my hosts that he really likes biscuits. He was sitting on the floor, leaning against me, nibbling on biscuits and allowing himself to be stroked; the loud combination of joyful gurgles and grunts straight out of a cartoon confirmed that they were not lying. Puerto Williams is the southern-most town in the world, located on the Chilean Navarino Island, so it is easy to tell that a North American beaver was not exactly at home there. However, I’ll get back to beaver introduction in Patagonia shortly.
