Zebra Tarantula
Zebra legs, burrow boss
Zebra legs, burrow boss
Big, brown, and mostly mellow.
Blond legs, desert burrows, calm giant
Orange Baboon Tarantula: Web. Dash. Defend.
The Velvet Black Burrower
Purple velvet of Ecuador's canopy
Velvet-dark ambush hunter of California
Metallic blue-built for the treetops
Desert jewel, webbing machine
Fire-legged, burrow-built, Mexico-made
Hear it: "peet-sah" in the shade
Downy divers of the far north
A spark of orange in deep shade
The woodland sprinter with a long tail
White-headed goose of the sea-ice edge
Crown of the Arctic pack ice
The clever parrot of the snowline
The lily-pad walker of the wetlands
Built for twilight insect-hunting
The sprinting cuckoo of the desert
Tawny flocks, whistled calls
Red mask, gold wing, thistle king.
Fencepost singer of the prairie
The feather-legged hover-hunter
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