| Late on the Sixth Day new ideas for creatures ran a little dry, and when someone said "Panda Ants" the First's reaction was, "Let's try!" Soon fuzzy myrmidons of black and white began to crawl the floor. "That's Good!" said the All-Mother, and with that she opened wide the door to Orca Hawks and Penguin Pigs, Scorpion Hamsters, Aardvark Frogs, Koala Cobras, Beetle Squirrels, wee Titmouse Mice, huge Slime Mold Dogs. But after crafting countless more chimeras, Nature had to ask what was the point of portmanteaus? And so she set herself the task to make a hybrid with contrasts impossible to supersede, a combination so outré that when she finished with the deed, She disbelieved that there could be a single species with a span so disparate. Yet there they stood, ... Woman ... and ... Man. |