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...that to the sea horse. It is the male who becomes pregnant, blows up like a balloon and delivers the young. The male Darwin frog swallows fertilized eggs and broods the young in his mouth. Ditto for the Japanese cardinal fish. In fact, males of many species--fish and fowl--are in charge of child care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Animal Attraction | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...said he hopes to collect exactly 333 signatures— a figure inspired by the number 33, worn by Bressman’s favorite athlete, the appropriately fowl-named basketball star Larry Bird...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Petitions to Bring Back Chick-fil-A | 12/9/2003 | See Source »

...become infamous over the decades of rivalry. It began in the ’60s, when Crimson fans tied a chicken to the Big Red goal at Bright Hockey Center, poking fun at Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the Big Red retaliated in fowl fashion. And as one of ushers at Lynah explained to me, “What’s Boston known for but Beantown? Fish...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Boston Lee Party: Lynah Faithful Overpowers Rink as M. Hockey Bows to Cornell | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...geese activist who says that city and state agencies have conspired to murder his fowl friends...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Council Hopefuls Declare Candidacy | 7/3/2003 | See Source »

...serves food that's in season: fish in the summer and game birds and venison in the winter. And like publicans of old, he sources his produce locally. The village and its environs provide an ample supply of partridge, pheasant and grouse, as well as quail, duck and guinea-fowl eggs - and no fewer than three types of honey. The Star grows its own herbs and some of its own vegetables on a four-acre patch. Fish is brought daily from nearby Hartlepool on the North Sea. And not to forget the drink, Pern tempts customers with homemade rhubarb schnapps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Simple But Superb | 12/8/2002 | See Source »

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