THE SHORT END OF THE STICK
This is a Tardigrade aka a ‘Water Bear’. It is only 0.020” long & lives for approximately 3-4 months. Some species, however, can live up to 2 years but that includes inert periods. It has 40,000 brain cells (humans have 100 billion), & a well-developed nervous system.
Another shot of the Tardigrade ‘Water Bear’.
Hello? I have no idea what this little critter is, but it’s kind’a cute.
The tiny Zunzuncito bird is found only in Cuba. As small as it is, it is perfect in every detail. I mean, how adorable is this?!!
A sweet little baby porcupine.
A wee little lion cub – with its Mum & Auntie, perhaps.
A newborn baby giraffe. It isn’t short though – at birth it's 6 feet long – or tall as soon as it can stand up.
A newborn human baby – in this case, 1 foot, 7 inches stretched out.
That newborn human baby with his Dad on his wedding day at 6 feet 1 inch!
My Bonsai Oak tree
On to non-living
offerings:
My wee little bear with
moving head, arms, & legs. When I
was growing up, we didn’t have pets until I was 13 when we had a parakeet.
One Christmas my brother and I got these tiny little bears in our stockings and we decided to pretend they were real pets and fixed up cardboard boxes to look like places we thought a pet bear would like to live. Not long after that Mom & Dad decided maybe Dad could fix up something where we could have little live turtles. It was fun for a while, but the turtles didn’t have much personality & they didn’t last all that long even though we tried to take good care of them. It was some time after that we got the parakeet. She was a sweet little thing and much more fun than the turtles. We had Tipi-tin for almost 7 years and I’ve had birds for pets ever since - all parakeets except my current bird is a budgie. These include: Tipi, of course,Tweety, Piper, Beeper, Snowball, Sweet Pea, Chips, Murphy, and currently, Shakespeare, plus, for a while, Ella the little pigeon who flew into our yard one day and liked to sit on my knee while I was reading in my gazebo and whom I eventually took to a bird sanctuary nearby where I could visit her. Unfortunately the sanctuary moved and she is no longer close-by, but I’ve been assured she’s happy in her new digs.
My loyal fans who listen to me when I sing!
And last are these pieces of micro-mini dollhouse furniture. Each piece is only ½ inch long. Their dollhouse is 2” x 2” and is a dollhouse within a dollhouse.
There in the back corner on the pink dresser is the dollhouse within a dollhouse with those teeny-tiny pieces of furniture inside.
:->
La Nightingail
Oh they are all so cute. I love tardegrades, which incidentally like to live on the skin of our faces. Another reason to wash with soap. If you are worried about them. I was surprised to learn my Physician's Assistant hadn't ever heard of them, and he had medical training! They have even gone into outer space and come home fine...see, I do love them! The doll house within the doll house is superb.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first learned about the tardegrades living on my face, it rather freaked me out, in a quiet way. I still don't relish the thought. So, soap will slide them off? I hope so!
ReplyDeleteMy sister and had only had first guppies and then turtles for pets. Ours didn't last long either. And we had some little bears one summer! They were more yellowish and not so furry, but their arms and legs moved and we built them little homes. That must have been a different summer than the one where we made little houses for tiny frogs.
The tiny dollhouse is so cute!
Tiny things are always fascinating and sometimes cute too. However I regret to tell you that the little Zunzuncito bird is actually a miniature carving made by a Bulgarian artist. I've seen this image before and got taken in too because it seems so realistic. Here's a link to the full story. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/photo-of-zunzuncito-bird/
ReplyDeleteIt did seem rather amazing that a live bird could be that small in so much fine detail, but then again, certain hummingbird species are darned near that small, so I didn't feel it was impossible. A little disappointing to find out the one, in particlular, isn't real, however.
DeleteThr Zunzuncito IS a real bird, though. It's actually a wee bit bigger than the handcrafted one in the photo - growing to approx. 2 1/4 inches long. Still, tha'ts pretty small. :)
DeleteWhat a charming group of photos! I remember those small, moveable bears, but hadn't thought about them in years until reading this. They were great fun, and all the kids my age seemed to have them. Also enjoyed your musical audience. I could use one of those to applaud when I finish a blog post : -)
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