I do believe you are absolutely correct. He was, very sensibly, making sure Chris followed protocol.

Absolutely right. Humans are unreliable.

Good question. Busy doing political things?

He had a vague feeling that he was being watched. He was very amused to see the video recordings showing that Pale Fox had indeed been keeping an eye on him.

@@TexasBackyardWildlife love it - definitely makes me wonder what critters are silently following me without my knowledge!

That's exactly the deal, Marion. We thought Chris was in charge; Pale Fox knew that actually, he was the boss, and he was behaving accordingly.

It was fun to see, wasn't it? Little Pale Fox trotting calmly along after Chris, just making sure he got all the way to the water bowl and back without getting lost.

"Hurry along, and don't get lost."

Thank you! It's good to hear from you.

That's a great story! We see bunnies quite often but we've never been able to make friends with them. You are a kind person to let them eat your peas and melons.

@@TexasBackyardWildlife There was a bad disease about 7 years ago that decimated the rabbit population so I wanted the survivors to feel safe here to repopulate the area. These two and their young are the only ones I`ve seen. The female trusts me and comes up to me and sometimes comes when called. I leave a bowl of water out for her and plant Red Ripper peas everywhere for them to eat. She doesn`t eat much from my garden this year but her babies did.

I'm a Kiwi. So you were very close. My accent is a little odd now - I've split my time between London and the US for decades. Good to meet you, Lisa!

Yes, they are.

Nope.

Well. I do know a bit about Babylon, as it happens. I don't think it ever had anything to do with "built in memories". And if the world actually has a creator, it seems clear that he or she has now lost interest in us.

@@TexasBackyardWildlife from what you said you clearly dont know enough and to think anything could go on without Creators interest you clearly dont have a true concept of what infinite truly means. no offence but to think an infinite being would lose interest in a Creation you follow a hollywood version of what Creator is. a true Creators infinite is so precise that even a simple change of a mood can effect an entire day or week and it heal by the end of it you just picture a lazy Creator but infinite is infinite ideas as well just like coming into one of us as an idea or as a person your limiting Creator to your imagination but try Creator is literal 9 billion imaginations put together and infinite more if we choose to bring more people here through our gift of making life. dont give up on Creator. when the trees grow all the exact same is when society will be done youll see

No, not really. A tiny bit of protein, but a lot more chitin, water, and carbohydrate-y gut contents.

Thank you! Do you think it's really a European paper wasp? Many commenters have told us that we're wrong and it's a Guinea paper wasp, Polistes exclamans.

They seem to be correct, I missed that. It could also be dorsalis. Given the spp I'm less certain it's a male too! If the face is all yellow, then it is a male - the low saturation in the video makes it hard to tell. That said, the colonies are so small for all of the Texas native species that they really don't want to tango with you most of the time!

They're omnivores - they eat rodents, bugs, small reptiles etc, and also fruit and berries. They're not any more aggressive than you would expect for an animal that often kills to eat. We hand-feed a couple of ringtails who will come to us when we're sitting out on the deck and they are very gentle with us.

Yes, they do. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polistes_exclamans

Or a ringtail eat wasp world.

We don't raise chickens. We have heard that raccoons will kill chickens, though we've never seen the ones around here hunt or kill at all. We also see lots of gray foxes and coyotes around, and they will kill chickens if given a chance (and they kill young raccoons).