Pine marten kits provide lesson in human interventionANOTHER LIFE: ONE OF THE DUTIES of the National Parks and Wildlife Service, as ordained by the EU’s habitats directive, is to keep a tally of the wildlife killed on the roads, or at least of those mammals whose welfare might concern us. As sightings flow into the biodiversity website biology.ie, little flags are hoisted on the excellent interactive maps of its major-domo, Paul Whelan.
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Impressed in the west by magnificent autumn moonsANOTHER LIFE : A DIFFERENT LIFT TO the wind, a new slant to the sky: as autumn unfolds, the west comes into its own. Like the great spring tides that surge across the strand, wiping it clean as a mirror, a realignment of light and space creates a bright new stage for the landscape, suddenly colourful in ways the summer people never see.
The very hungry caterpillar is quite fussy about its foodANOTHER LIFE: AT REST IT LOOKS, for those who remember such things, rather like a small, dark cheroot, of the kind once – perhaps still – clamped between the shiny teeth of Mexican bandits. Close up, however, its skin has the sheen of a soft velour, patterned with moth colours like a 1920s sofa. And when alarmed, in a quite absurd simile of its own, it pulls in its snout and puffs up its eye spots to look as much like a menacing snake as a caterpillar can.
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