~The Zennor Mermaid

The Zennor mermaid is an ancient Cornish legend
of a Mermaid named Morveren who fell in
love with a local boy, Mathew Trewella
    
There is a local legend about a mermaid in Zennor.
Matthew Trewhella was a good-looking young man with
a good voice. Each evening Matthew would sing the
closing hymn at the church in Zennor, solo.
A mermaid living in neighbouring Pendour Cove was
enchanted by the music. She dressed in a long dress to
hide her long tail and walked a bit awkwardly to the church.
Initially, she just marvelled at Matthew's singing before
slipping away to return to the sea.
She came every day, and eventually became bolder,
staying longer. It was on one of these visits that
her gaze met Matthew's, and they fell in love.
However, the mermaid knew she had to go back to
the sea or die. As she prepared to leave,
Matthew said "Please do not leave, who are you,
where are you from?".
 

The mermaid told him that she was a creature from
the sea and that she must go back.
Matthew was so love-struck that he swore he
would follow her wherever she went.
Matthew carried her to the cove and followed her
beneath the waves, never to be seen again.

It is said that if you sit above Pendour Cove at
sunset on a fine summer evening you might hear
Matthew singing faintly on the breeze.

At St. Senara Church in Zennor visitors may see a
carved bench-end over 600 years old showing the mermaid.

~ Kolibri’s

Deze vrouw woont in een zone waar veel kolibri's
overvliegen, een kolibriroute dus.
Op hun trektocht verbleven er ongeveer 20 van hen
in haar tuin (om te overwinteren?).
Zij nam een klein rood bekertje, vulde het met suikerwater
en dit zie hieronder.
De vrouw heet Abagail Pine en woont in Louisiana.
Elke dag deed ze dit en bestudeerde ze en op een dag
nam ze het rode bekertje met suikerwater in haar hand
daar ze nu toch al aan haar aanwezigheid dichtbij
het bekertje gewend waren.
Ze kwamen gewoon op haar hand zitten en uit
het kopje in haar hand drinken
Ze zegt dat ze echt vederlicht aanvoelden
toen ze haar hand raakten.

This woman lives in an area where many
hummingbirds are flying about,
It is called a hummingbird path.
There are about 20 of them in her garden
(for the winter?).
She took a little red cup, filled it with sugar water
and see what happens on the photo’s.

The woman is called Abagail Pine and lives in Louisiana.
She did this every day and studied them and at
one day, she took the red cup with sugar water in her hand
since they are already used to its presence,
They were just sitting on her hand and
the drinking from the cup in her hand
She says that she really sensed feathery
when they touche her hand.
 

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~Cute

~Little Poem

  
Fairy flannel is the skin of peaches,
Fairy brushes are the nuts of beeches,
Velvet bulrushes are fairy pillows,
Fairy muffs are made of pussy willows.
~ Rose Fyleman ~

~ Pangolins

De Pangolin of het Afrikaans schubdier komt voor
in laagland-regenwouden en graslanden te Afrika,
van West-kenya tot Senegal, van India en Sri Lanka tot
Sumatra en Kalimantan en in West-Angola.
 

A pangolin also scaly anteater or trenggiling, is a
mammal of the order Pholidota.
There is only one extant family(Manidae) and one genus
(Manis) of pangolins, comprising eight species.
There are also a number of extinct taxa. Pangolins have
large keratin scales covering their skin and are the
only mammals with this adaptation.
They are found in tropical regions of Africa and Asia.
The name "pangolin" derives from the Malay word
pengguling ("something that rolls up"). Pangolins are
nocturnal animals, and use their well-developed sense
of smell to find insects. The long-tailed pangolin is also
active by day. Pangolins spend most of the daytime
sleeping, curled up into a ball.

The physical appearance of pangolins is marked
by large, hardened, plate-like scales.
The scales, which are soft on newborn pangolins but
harden as the animal matures, are made of keratin,
the same material of which human fingernails and
tetrapod claws are made. The pangolin is often compared
to a walking pine cone or globe artichoke.
It can curl up into a ball when threatened, with its overlapping
scales acting as armour and its face tucked under
its tail. The scales are razor-sharp, providing extra
defense. The front claws are so long that they are
unsuited for walking, and so the animal walks with its
fore paws curled over to protect them. Pangolins can
also emit a noxious smelling acid from glands near the
anus, similar to the spray of a skunk.
Pangolins have short legs, with sharp claws which they
use for burrowing into termite and ant mounds,
as well as climbing.

The size of pangolins varies by species,
ranging from 30 cm to 100 cm (12 to 39 inches).
Females are generally smaller than males.

De fysieke verschijning van Schubdieren wordt
gekenmerkt door grote, gehard, plaatvormige schalen. 
De schalen, die zacht zijn voor pasgeboren Schubdieren
maar hard als het dier volwassen wordt, zijn gemaakt
van keratine, hetzelfde materiaal waarvan de menselijke vingernagels en klauwen worden gemaakt.
Het schubdier wordt vaak vergeleken met een
wandelende dennenappel of Artisjok.
Het dier krult op in een bal als ze bedreigd worden,
met zijn overlappende schubben die als pantser dienen en
hun gezicht verschuilen ze dan onder hun staart.
De schalen zijn messcherp, ze verstrekken een
extra verdediging. De voorste klauwen zijn zo lang
dat ze ongeschikt zijn om op te lopen, daarom loopt
het dier met zijn voorpoten opgekruld
meteen om hem te beschermen.
Schubdieren kan ook een schadelijk zuur uit klieren
uitstoten bij de anus, vergelijkbaar met de spray
van een stinkdier. Schubdieren hebben korte poten
met scherpe klauwen die zij gebruiken voor het graven
in termieten en mieren heuvels, evenals om te klimmen.
De grootte van Schubdieren varieert per soort, variërend
van 30 cm tot 100 cm (12 tot 39 inch). 
Vrouwen zijn over het algemeen kleiner dan mannetjes.

Er zijn 8 soorten schubdieren bekend
8 known Species of Pangolins!

-Manis culionensis- Palawanschubdier
-Manis gigantea- Giant Pangolin (Reuze)
- Manis temminckii- Ground Pangolin (Steppen)
-Manis tricuspis- Tree pangolin (Boom)
-Manis tetradactyla- long-tailed pangolin (Langstaart)
-Manis crassicaudata- Indian Pangolin
-Manis pentadactyla- Chinese Pangolin
-Manis javanica- Javaans schubdier

 

 

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