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Bunnies at Meigetsu-in (明月院), Kamakura. The temple is associated with the moon (meigetsu means full or bright moon) and hence with rabbits (according to East Asian folklore, a rabbit lives on the moon).

In ancient times, karasu, the crows and ravens of Japan, were not maligned as garbage-strewing pests, but revered as messengers of the gods and bringers of good fortune. In Japanese mythology, the three-legged Yatagarasu guided legendary first emperor Jinmu, and many Shintō shrines still hold obisha matsuri around the lunar New Year in which parishioners pray to an archery target  bearing the image of karasu.

The Japanese language lumps five distinct species of corvids together under the term karasu, the most common of these being the hashiboso garasu (”narrow-beaked crow”) and hashibuto garasu (”broad-beaked crow”). The migratory miyama garasu (rook), kokumaru garasu (jackdaw), and watari garasu (northern raven) are less dispersed, but can be spotted in some areas during certain times of the year.

The Clever “Karasu”: Wise Old Birds Living Side by Side with Humans

I want one!

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Galileo’s sketches from Sidereus Nuncius (1610), the first published scientific work based on observations made through a telescope

Penguins Pringle and Charlie make new friends during Christmas care home visit

Excuse me I too would like to register for a visit from Pringle and Charlie the Comfort Penguins. 

[ID: A photograph of three elderly women sitting down in front of a bank of windows; looking up at them from the floor are two alert and sleek-looking penguins. Two of the women are laughing while the third looks on.]

Corvid plays fetch.

- Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

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The Red Deer & the Jackdaw

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