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...very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over. The sow had it by the neck, and the shoat had the tail. 'You pigs git,' Augustus said, kicking the shoat. 'Head on down to the creek if you want to eat that snake.' It was the porch he begrudged them, not the snake...
...gross injustice." Not so, says Kevin Walsh, director of training at New York's aquarium: "You can see them jumping and doing flips in the ocean. The flips just aren't as clean." Some "tricks" have dual purposes, as when beluga whales learn to put their tail in the air both for performances and for giving veterinarians access to do medical tests. Moreover, the narration that goes with many shows is full of facts about marine biology. Seeing dolphins and whales can make a particularly strong impression on children, teaching them the need for wildlife conservation...
...junction of two canals, where a stand of willows and pond-apple trees provides a bit of shade. When Duncan, a water- quality expert working for the local Indian tribe, cuts the engine of his airboat, he can hear bullfrogs croak from the water lilies and the tails of - Florida garfish slap the water with a noise like popcorn popping. A pair of white ibis watch warily as alligators -- half a dozen of them -- drift toward the boat, lured by a man-made gulping sound that Duncan calls an alligator distress call. When they realize they have been fooled...
Crowds are worse on Colorado's 14,255-ft. Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. Last year some 29,000 hikers reached the top, a rise of 53% since 1990. This is a nose-to-tail wilderness experience. Permits are assigned by lottery to climb Mount Whitney, above California's Owens Valley, at 14,494 ft., the highest summit in the Lower 48 states. The limit is 50 people a day in the favored period of late summer, and by the end of April all the slots were assigned...
...colleagues like William Safire and Pat Buchanan. "Are you trying to win us," one staff member asked him jokingly, "or to lose us?" It wasn't a bad question. In an interview with TIME afterward, Gergen said he understood that there might be resentment. "If I had worked my tail off during the campaign and some guy who had worked for Republicans came into my chain of command, I would be anxious," he admits. "And it's as big a surprise for me as it is for them. Some of them think this is a liver transplant...