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The Okapi and the Sloth and soon...a Tucan

Hi, Page Turner here! A few days ago, I sort of dared myself to write a post that included ice cream, calendars, a mailman, unicorns, poetry, and, oh yeah, an elephant. (I just threw the last one on as I was ending that post. ) Okay, here I go!
   My favorite animals are like ice cream flavors, calendar pages, weather patterns, and the times...they are a changin'. Yup, like the aforesaid, my favorite animals are always changing. Of course, I will always love my Fox, my dog, and Fluff, Snowball, Peanut, and Groucho, my cats, the best. But the other animals...those be a changin'. Like right now, I love the okapi.This creature looks
a little like a giraffe, with knob-like structures on its forehead. It can actually lick these structures with its tongue! Yes, the tongue of the okapi is an amazing muscle designed by God, with far-reaching abilities! Also, the okapi was once thought to be a unicorn. Not only that, but this amazing creature wasn't discovered by the scientific community until a little over a hundred
years ago! That's a long time for such a noticeable and important and large animal. The okapi is actually considered a living fossil, which is great evidence for creation! For more information, go to Answers in Genesis. :) Okay, so I mentioned that favorite animals are like ice cream flavors, and we all know that we have MULTIPLE ice cream flavors at all times, so my other favorite animal right now is the sloth! This little guy is so cute and
funny--the picture doesn't do him justice! Amazing and unique creatures, God created the sloth in such an amazing way. They are the slowest mammal, lack the muscles to shiver, sleep 18 HOURS a day, and can swim 3 times faster in water. Also, they still so long that they grow fungus and algae on their fur that helps them blend in. That's just so cool! God designed the slow-moving sloth with everything it need to live. That's just so cool! He is an amazing Creator!

 Well, that's it! Next time I'll be talking about Prattling with Paige, inspired by Adventures in Odyssey's own mailman and his blog. Also, I'll include poetry. That's right, just like an elephant, the only mammal who can't jump, I remembered! (I'm like the elephant because I remembered, not because I can't jump.) Hah! I did it! I got it all in! See you later! As the sloth to the right says, "Hang Loose!"
---page turner

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