Slugs. I hardly see them in Grimsby compared to the legions in the Toronto garden. But Dan Cooper found a leopard slug on his lawn mower last week. It is among the largest slugs we see at 10 - 20 cm (4-8 inches). That has lots of slime.
But it is not the largest of slugs. That is reserved for the Black Sea Hare (Aplysia vaccaria) the world' largest species of sea slug. It weighs up to 30 pounds and measures over 3 feet long. They come to shore to lay their eggs, so can be seen on land and sea. It looks like some hairless fat black dog/pig. Above the collage are keywords: real, sea slug, huge, pretty, discovered fish, leopard slug, alive, rare slug, black slug, etc. All fun. In the second row is a leopard slug - it looks slim and sleek in comparison.
The Loch Ness monster is in the Silly News with a headline of a sighting - it looks like a really big fish - 8 feet is what the article says. It was proposed to be a catfish - that article is HERE. It turns out that there are astonishingly large-sized catfish in Britain - someone caught a massive 147 lb catfish in June 2020. One was caught at 145 pounds last year, and a schoolboy caught a 7 foot one in 2014.
Even bigger - can it be possible? - is the Mekong giant catfish at nearly nine feet long and 646 pounds. Sorry to say that even though it is endangered, the picture of the two men and the big fish was taken on land, so the species is likely more endangered now. There's something about big fish - they have to be turned into dead fish. That isn't the case with slugs - they get put back where they came from. I expect it is the slime.
Nostalgia for simpler times comes forth with this single word 'picnic.' I can guess there will be more picnics showing up this weekend with stage 3 reopenings in various regions in Ontario. I look forward to a lakeside picnic in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
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