The Hunt
Die Jagd
This is a story of a waterlily pond, a frog and a snake. It is full of action, menace and suspense. Luckily, there is a happy ending although one party does look foolish.
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April 11, 2016
Rana esculenta - by SL Wong
Why Did the Frog Cross the Road?
Warum Überquert der Frosch die Straße?
A white bucket in hand, Christine Zorn walks along the knee-high tarpaulin fencing a road in Buch, in north Berlin. The air is thick with the sound of noisy seagulls…
March 24, 2015
As a Duck Takes to Water
Die Ente in Ihrem Element
Oh Mallard, how do you do it? It's minus ten degrees out there, half the River Spree is frozen and all of Treptower Park is buried in snow. And yet…
January 3, 2015
Non-native but well-adapted are Mandarin Ducks, seen here in the Tiergarten, Berlin - by SL Wong
Motley Mandarins
Kunterbunte Mandarinenten
If the crazy colours and patterns of male Mandarin Ducks don't point to natural selection at its most obvious, I don't know what does. Berlin-Brandenburg actually has the second largest Aix…
August 25, 2014