Warp wrote:

>   I haven't seen a giraffe live. That fact doesn't diminish my quality of
> life in any way. Why should I care if I haven't seen one?

But it does. This is why we take our young children to a zoo; To see a 
live giraffe, stuffed in an enclosure much to small for it to live a 
fulfilled and comfortable life, being fed a diet that is somewhat, but 
not entirely incompatible with its digestive tract. If you don't see a 
live giraffe as a small child, you'll grow up to be like Andrew, or 
worse ...

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Mike Raiford wrote:

> If you don't see a 
> live giraffe as a small child, you'll grow up to be like Andrew, or 
> worse ...

...which is all the more amusing given that I *did* see several live 
gairaffe as a small child.

And while we're on the subject, I can think of plenty of other people 
that it would be far worse to turn into. :-P

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Invisible wrote:

> And while we're on the subject, I can think of plenty of other people 
> that it would be far worse to turn into. :-P

Oh, So can I, but we don't mention them :)

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> I remember a friend of mine caught a tadpole from this little murky 
> looking pond. Plopped the thing in its aquarium. We watched it grow legs, 
> and arms, and eventually take the form of a frog, then released it, 
> probably to an early death as a road pancake. But it sure was cool to see 
> it change form over the weeks.

We used to start off with 100s of tadpoles in our pond.  I'd watch them 
grow, but mostly I'd watch them getting eaten by the fish.  At the end we 
maybe had 5 or 6 each year that made it to frogs.  One year we tried to take 
out the frogspawn and put it in an aquarium, but something wasn't right 
because none survived.

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scott wrote:

> We used to start off with 100s of tadpoles in our pond.  I'd watch them 
> grow, but mostly I'd watch them getting eaten by the fish.

I once nudged a fly into a spider's web and watched it get eaten.

Actually, that was somewhat disturbing... I was only about 11 at the time.

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Mike Raiford <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> I remember a friend of mine caught a tadpole from this little murky
> looking pond. Plopped the thing in its aquarium. We watched it grow
> legs, and arms, and eventually take the form of a frog, then released
> it, probably to an early death as a road pancake. But it sure was cool
> to see it change form over the weeks.

I had also some, but only to feed *my* dragonfly nymph. Later I released it in a
pond to catch small fishes.

bluetree

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Mike Raiford <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> My God. Are you advocating that we all allow a toad to hump our wrists?
> My life is complete without *that* experience, thanks.

No, I was just asking, what stuff did you do, when you were a smaller one. There
*must* some similar experience. Come on, enlighten me! :-)

bluetree

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"scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
> > I remember a friend of mine caught a tadpole from this little murky
> > looking pond. Plopped the thing in its aquarium. We watched it grow legs,
> > and arms, and eventually take the form of a frog, then released it,
> > probably to an early death as a road pancake. But it sure was cool to see
> > it change form over the weeks.
>
> We used to start off with 100s of tadpoles in our pond.  I'd watch them
> grow, but mostly I'd watch them getting eaten by the fish.  At the end we
> maybe had 5 or 6 each year that made it to frogs.  One year we tried to take
> out the frogspawn and put it in an aquarium, but something wasn't right
> because none survived.

What did you feed them?
They are half cannibalic. I saw them eat their dead brothers (or sisters).
But normally they are eating aglgea. Ah, better to have some green slime outside
your window. :-)

bluetree

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>> We used to start off with 100s of tadpoles in our pond.  I'd watch them
>> grow, but mostly I'd watch them getting eaten by the fish.  At the end we
>> maybe had 5 or 6 each year that made it to frogs.  One year we tried to 
>> take
>> out the frogspawn and put it in an aquarium, but something wasn't right
>> because none survived.
>
> What did you feed them?
> They are half cannibalic. I saw them eat their dead brothers (or sisters).
> But normally they are eating aglgea. Ah, better to have some green slime 
> outside
> your window. :-)

IIRC we just took out some of the water and plants (mostly that canadian 
pondweed stuff) from the main pond and put in a separate container nearby.

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> scott wrote:
>
> > We used to start off with 100s of tadpoles in our pond.  I'd watch them
> > grow, but mostly I'd watch them getting eaten by the fish.
>
> I once nudged a fly into a spider's web and watched it get eaten.
>
> Actually, that was somewhat disturbing... I was only about 11 at the time.


You had to see my face, when I was a child and was watching a nice little water
bird-baby. Oh, that sweet baby is playing with a dragonfly.
Oh, look at it, it's playing to catch the dragonfly.
- Oh, ooooooh, it made a jump, catched it and ate that big dragonfly...
.. . . b a b y?

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