Regarding the unknown picture of a fish in the TMORA exhibit, a reader has an identification:
The “top creature” is a pike (Esox lucius) by the way. They are native to North America as well as Northern Europe and Russia.
Cool. Thank you. A fish often mentioned in Minnesota.
Which reminds me of a story involving either a pike or a northern I heard many years ago. The teller of the story was canoeing on a Minnesota lake one day …
… when I saw a squirrel looking at an acorn, sitting out on a tree limb above a little bay. Finally, the squirrel went scampering out onto the branch, eager for his prize, and >SPLASH!< a pike leaped from the water, clamped the rascal in its jaws, and took the squirrel away to a watery fate.
My goodness! exclaimed the audience.
No, that’s not the amazing part, said the storyteller.
Really?
The storyteller nodded. Yep. Not five minutes later, I saw that pike again. He was balancing an acorn on his nose …
