A Touching Subject

A female Australopithecus mourning the loss of her child to a Dinofelis attack. by Harrison Keller Pyle  John Janssen A touching subject and a reminder that our human emotions are not limited to us. There is no proof I know of that Australopithecus cried but I feel it is plausible.

Bug Hawk

I think I remember Steve describing Kestrels in A Rage for Falcons as a Bug Hawk in falconry terms. Neat birds but limited in what prey they could handle. This picture captures what he meant.

Venus vs. Earth

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-venus-earth-like-lithospheric-thickness.html while Earth and Venus are siblings, with comparable size and composition, they are vastly different in character, the Dennis and Randy Quaid of the inner solar system. (Venus is not Dennis in this analogy.) Ouch! It is never good when a planet scale analogy is needed because you are so ph*cked up. LOL