Wildlife On Ab

[vetuste_ennemi]

Despite its small size AB is geographically diverse. Its many small micro-climates provide niche ecologies which sustain rare and sometimes unique species. Which ones are your favourites?

Here are two of mine.

The Peter Panda inhabits AB's forested uplands. Its main diet is a particularly cellulose dense type of bamboo which even other pandas find indigestible. AB is the only place where the Peter Panda is known to exist. As such, and because of the breeding difficulties common to all pandas, the Peter panda is in danger of extinction. Unlike other species the Peter panda does not climb trees.

Below the mountains AB's grasslands are home to another VE favourite, the Great Oryx. The Great oryx thrives in these generally temperate conditions (not that summer temperatures cannot rise to 30C and above). The savannah, of course, offers rich pickings to AB's many carnivores. Confrontations between the Great oryx and the stronger predators are frequent, but rarely end in physical attack. This is because the Great oryx, as its name suggests, is larger and stronger than more populous oryx species, and is well protected by a fast turn of speed and a strong kick. For this reason the predators find it safer and easier to pick off smaller and more vulnerable antelopes like the ubiquitous dik-dik.

[jim360]

Wait, who's the oryx?

[pastafreak]

Mwaaahahaha! I have no immediate response, except that is very, very funny.

[ladybirder]

Love it v-e. Smiling here.

[Atheist]

What about the eland?

[pastafreak]

Have you lost your way, SK? ;)

[SparklyKid]

No pasta. Just failed to see any funny side, must be me.

[pastafreak]

Oh...so you didn't mean to post that on your own thread...?

[spathiphyllum]

Oh, a wild shrew

[rowanwitch]

Perching in the high branches of the lofty acacia, hiding safely behind the thorns the shrill outbursts of the strike can be heard. This butcher bird leaves it's prey impaled on thorns where it dismembers them at its leisure.
The peaceful and aesthetically challenged warthog roots around keeping alert for the roving pride of lions. The males are ok and easy to spot it's the females that are most dangerous. They ambush unwary prey as a group picking on the weakest and most vulnerable

[bednobs]

i definitely think there is a worm in here

[jim360]

As soon as I said it in my head I realised who the Great Oryx is.

[vetuste_ennemi]

(Not as fast as I though, then)

[SparklyKid]

Aha Pasta, I understand. Just no idea what VE is on about.

[DTCwordfan]

The Queen Bee of North Berwick is a very particular Queen Bee - known for her mean, stinging streak but then she turns to honey and kisses. She has a peculiar thing for buzzing stock cars and zooms around Britain looking for a Bugatti for her home. The Queen Bee's sugar levels go up and down faster than Alex Salmond's breeks and, in being a Queen Bee, she is particularly fastidious about her 'ealth. Recently the Queen Bee has found a Fifedom Drone with whom she intends to splice and mate, the Kirkcaldy William species, and they should make for lots of new bees for their eventual hive somewhere in the Slothians. Therefore the Queen Bee believes that she has solved half of the conundrum 'to bee or not to bee' believing the answer to be three.

[lady-janine]

Be careful DTC you may get stung where you don't want to bee.

[SparklyKid]

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