Mervyn, in the meantime, had had his solitary meal in the famous back parlour of the Phoenix, where the newspapers lay, and all comers were welcome.

I think that if we had a barge instead of being an open-hatched barge like this is with four long cylinders lying on it and vulnerable to being swamped by water getting over into the hole, instead of that, there was an especially designed barge for this, that had buoyancy in itself, then this problem would be certainly remitigated.

Perhaps we will have to settle for Spiderman, a fairly positive—if arachnologically correct—spider-based role model.

For instance, native plants in the Mascarenes developed several adaptations, such as serrated leafs and leafs with red venation, to deter tortoise browsing (Cheke & Hume, 2010).