Maybe as a kid you loved nothing better than lying on your back on the lawn, and seeing shapes in the clouds. Boats, whales, elephants - that sort of thing.I'm convinced that this ability to assimilate the unknown with the known follows us into adulthood. How often do we see things and think to ourselves, 'Gosh, that looks like ...'?
(You might also recall the episode of The Simpsons which featured the programme, "People who look like things".)
The human brain can use this image assimilation ability to make you do a double-take when you see something like this on the water's edge of a suburban park.
Never mind that the air temperature has been down below zero in recent times. Never mind that this ravenous reptile is in King's Park, Launceston.
It was in October last year that we as a family discovered what is possibly (even probably) Launceston's only saltwater crocodile.It was nice to see the croc again today, still looking as aggressive and glorious as he did last spring. The winter doesn't seem to have affected him at all. Though everyone else is rugged up in their woollies, he just continues basking in the [occasional] sunlight that happens his way.
Maybe when I come back in three months, he'll have grown some legs. I guess it's also possible (likely even) that on some future trip we'll discover that his jaw has hit the ground due to dry rot.
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Mate ..... Have you ever been to a dog show and noticed how the breeders look so like their dogs?
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