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Windshield ranchers have also been busy creating their own personal game preserves. The Army first introduced camels to the area in 1856, and starting in the 1940s the locals began importing other exotic animals--ibex and zebras, nilgai antelope from Pakistan and barasingh deer from India. Veterinarians report a land-office business treating exotic pets. "I had to neuter a coatimundi once, and I didn't even know what species it was," says veterinarian Cuatro Patterson. (It's similar to a raccoon...
...love with the Guadalupe River at age 5. Now he flies in by charter jet from Houston to his 200-acre ranch outside Kerrville and brings along his four kids, ages 3 to 11, to hunt, fish and swim on holidays. Fatjo watches over his herd of 60 axis deer and whitetail deer from the luxury of his truck or golf cart. "It's clearly a dude ranch, not a working ranch," he says. "But it has everything my family wants--moonlight rides, beer drinking by the lake." For that kind of idyll, you can forgive a few problems. When...
Nonetheless, I headed to Hong Kong's Sheung Wan district, which is home to hundreds of shops selling all manner of traditional medicines. The window of the first shop I entered looked promising: dried seahorses were arranged on a dirty glass cabinet with pieces of deer antler inside. The smiling proprietor showed me a range of products that ran from deer's penis to a tea made from summer grass, a fungus that grows on the larvae of bat moths, priced at $600 for 500 grams. (There were no prices quoted for moth larvae penis...
...Antler or penis? - before getting all hopped up on Chinese sex aids. The first: Do I really believe that eating another animal's penis is going to improve my sex life? (Plenty of people do: one of the hottest sellers is a tonic made by soaking tiger, bear and deer penises in rice wine.) A follow-up question: Even if I do, is it remotely reasonable to believe that things that simply resemble penises, such as snakes and antlers, have the same effect? And let's say I don't. (I'm suspicious of the overtly obvious; for example...
...about the change of seasons. No one else is. The squirrels scamper across the road in their exuberantly suicidal springtime way, racing to see if they can manage to get under the wheels. Nature on the move. Chipmunks are back in business. Our cats play Sylvester with the bluebirds. Deer, exhausted by deep snow and winter, have taken to using the plowed driveway as a thoroughfare: Yesterday I saw 20 of them file leisurely down the drive from the field, where they browse, morning and evening, on what bare patches they can find. A church social of wild turkeys congregates...