Imagine, if you will, as the crystal ball of your inner eye takes you back into a primordial time, when life was primitive and brutal, and only those able to sniff out the elusive piffle-clam and it's symbiotic but tasty companion, the snot louse, were able to forage the protein needed to carry on the fragile thread of life. Vivid in colorful plumage, huge migratory herds of these beasts covered Eastern Europe, from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Siberan tundra. Now nearly extinct, a few may be found wandering the shores of lakes in Turkey, and in local petting zoos. Although normally gentle, care should be taken not to startle them, because once they flash their eye-spots (^shown above), they are almost certain to stampede.
