Elk
Hear the mountains bugle: wapiti
Hear the mountains bugle: wapiti
Pronged horns. Prairie speed.
Born to bound: the pronking springbok
Flash the red-rule the marsh
Half-striped, fully gone-remember quagga
Antlers, Arctic, and endless miles.
Bering Sea breeder, ocean wanderer.
Glide like a dragon, live in trees.
Ghost lion of the Cape frontier
The dockside "boatwhistler."
Bubbling song over hayfields, Southbound by night
Built for cliffs, crowned with horns
Lily-pad walkers, dads on duty
Born to sprint the open plains
Fine fiber, tough mountain survivor
Kings of the riverbank sprint
The lizard that becomes a ring of armor
Colorful rock sentinels of Africa
Built like a box, swims like a drone
Beaks that build beaches
Blue bull of India's scrublands
Nature's master basket-weavers
Hanging-nest genius of the monsoon
Peppermint stripes from the twilight reef
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