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Word power: not about Trump, but…

…reading Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash (subtitled The 400-year untold history of class in America) will likely give you a whole new perspective on Trump & Trumpism.

(this post’s featured image depicts an absolutely “legitimate” bit of campaigning by an absolutely real Wanker. She was re-elected; all is revealed at this post’s end)

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Scratchings

This post is not a 2018 Melbourne Cup field update!

However, it will answer a question that you probably have never asked:

How does an echidna scratch itself?

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Lemurs (3rd in series): Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur

A large, loud, and spectacularly agile rainforest-dwelling lemur, it is usually considered a single species, Varecia variegata.

Some argue that its three subspecies are so distinct that they should be classified as three species.

Alas, beyond argument is its/their status: critically endangered.

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Lemurs (1st in series): Ring-tailed

Looks rather like a Paris-styled raccoon.

(Primatologist Alison Jolly’s 1967 description of Madagascar’s emblematic mammal)

Lemur catta – the ring-tailed lemur – is the most “adaptable” of circa 107 lemur species.

However, like other lemurs, its post-1967 story is one of potentially catastrophic decline, mostly via destruction of suitable habitat.

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