Author Archives: Scott Bowles

Four’s Company


http://fhaloanmichigan.org/down-payment-assistance-grant-in-wayne-county/ Meet the Nine-Banded Armadillo — the only mammal known to always give birth to identical quadruplets.

besiegingly Inside her armored shell, she nurtures a miracle of nature: four babies, all born from a single fertilized egg, splitting perfectly into four clones. No competition. No hierarchy. Just unity — genetically and emotionally bound.

These tiny tank-like babies arrive soft and pink, drinking side by side in complete synchrony. They’ll follow their mother in a tight-knit group for months, foraging, burrowing, and learning the ancient rhythm of survival.

But you know one brags about being first.

Happy Birthday, Sis

Fifty-Seven

I don’t know
how you would take
fifty-seven.

But that was always
the rub —
how to softshoe eggshells.

Mom’s pale grays,
Dad’s fiery reds —
you could outrun neither.

Spark the Pall Mall.
Break the whiskey seal.
The dogs howl your name
in a room gone still.




Beavis and Bumphead


This is the Bumphead Parrotfish — nature’s underwater demolition expert.

It doesn’t nibble.

It slams into coral walls, smashing ancient structures with headbutts so violent, it echoes like underwater thunder.

Every morning, these fish wake up and eat the reef… literally.

Their beak-like teeth grind dead coral into powder — producing up to 90kg (200lbs) of sand per year per fish. That’s not just survival — that’s ecosystem engineering.

But their power doesn’t stop at the jaw.

They travel in synchronized mobs, leaving clouds of dust and broken coral in their wake — reshaping the seafloor like aquatic bulldozers.

The sand on your tropical beach?

Chances are… it passed through one of these jaws.