A Fire-Spewing Dragon [Rev]

Sitting in a deep, dark dungeon without the sun,

clouds, milky and grey - threatening rain which

doesn’t come, headache which won’t go away,

& Lord of the Crocodile Castle has turned into

 

 A fire-spewing dragon because he’ll have to wait

a month long for new glasses - while, as a local

crocodile, I fail to entertain because everything he

hears & sees is irritating - I’m forbidden to use

 

Key words that bring happiness - I am muzzled

and hibernating - only BBC animal programmes

bring relief - and the Kalahari desert has strange

fairy circles where no grass will grow & Sir David

 

Attenborough is whispering about this - adding a

bit of sparkle to this boring, stifling grey day, I had

better Google these interesting phenomena and

start chasing this mystery - it might lift my spirit

 

Out of depression into a realm of bliss…

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https://www.livescience.com/28268-fairy-circle-mystery-solved.html

 “While studying the strange patterns, biologist Norbert Juergens of the University of Hamburg noticed that wherever he found the dirt patches (the barren centers inside fairy circles), he also found sand termites.

 The termite behavior provides an example of "ecosystem engineering," Juergens wrote in the Science paper. The insects appear to be feeding on the grass roots to create the characteristic rings, the study suggests. As to why the termites would create circular-shaped patches, Juergens doesn't say.

 "The paper is a useful addition to debating the origin of the fairy circles," chemist Yvette Naude of the University of Pretoria, South Africa, who was not involved in the study, told LiveScience in an email. But, Naude added, the study "does not address the key question as to what is the primary factor that causes sudden plant mortality, i.e. the birth of a fairy circle."

 The soil in fairy circles seems to be altered so that plants can't survive, whereas termites usually enrich soil, making it more hospitable to plants, she said.”