But happily the Bumble Bee
Is not well acquainted with this the-e-ory
For he still flies. from plant to plant
Without ever realizing that he can’t.
For some reason this silly childhood tune played in my head when I watched these recent film from Laurie the woeful guardian of the Monte Verde beavers in Rocklin near Sierra College in Placer. A huge development project has put them directly in harms way and she is beside herself with worry. But the beavers, well, just look how their coping.
Turn your sound UP because that habitat has many friends that don’t like development either.
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The Bumblee Bee mistakenly
Believes he is flying when he couldn’t be
For engineers will testify
the way he’s constructed he could never fly
His fuselage is much too round
his undercarriage really is not to sound
his wingspan it, could never bear
the weight of his heavy body in the air
They say he shouldn’t try
to ever reach the sky
For studies now have found
That aero-dynamics show he could not leave the ground…
But happily the Bumble Bee
Is not well acquainted with this the-e-ory
For he still flies. from plant to plant
Without ever realizing that he can’t.
