Emotional connection to a single species

Amoeba · #1 (**permalink**) 15-10-2009, 08:17 PM

Is there any particular species of plant, animal, fungus, etc. that you feel you have a deep-rooted (or simply just deep) emotional connection to, even if that connection is just one way? A particular species that makes you feel warmer and fuzzier inside than any other? A species that perhaps stirs fond memories, or simply stirs something inside of you that you can't explain?

2dogs2000 · #2 (**permalink**) 15-10-2009, 08:36 PM

Skylark has that affect on me. Takes me back to my childhood when I used to lie in fields trying to see the lark up in the clouds. Sadly the area is very much housing now and I don't hear them as often.

eeyore · #3 (**permalink**) 15-10-2009, 09:10 PM

wolfies

eeyore · #4 (**permalink**) 15-10-2009, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by 2dogs2000

Skylark has that affect on me. Takes me back to my childhood when I used to lie in fields trying to see the lark up in the clouds. Sadly the area is very much housing now and I don't hear them as often.

if you get a chance you should drive down to the berkshire/oxfordshire downs - last year we were working on bury down near the a34 and there were so many larks up the song was virtually deafening.

high point came when one landed on the truck bonnet while we were sitting i the cab having lunch.

Merrow · #5 (**permalink**) 15-10-2009, 09:26 PM

it's got to be bottlenose dolphins and seals for me

fairplay · #6 (**permalink**) 15-10-2009, 09:29 PM

I'll take you up on the last part of your last sentence Amoeba:

"...stirs something inside of you that you can't explain"

I happen to love 'Wood Blewitts' (an edible fungi) but everytime I eat them, something stirs inside of me, and sends me off to the loo.

I can't explain that.

Neil.

Sorry.

Jenny W · #7 (**permalink**) 15-10-2009, 09:37 PM

I'm fond of Tree Sparrows since I did my dissertation on them a while back.

teknomage · #8 (**permalink**) 16-10-2009, 07:02 AM

Swallows. I really miss them when they fly back to Africa and can't wait for their return in the spring. I love to watch their superbe flying all round the house and farmyard when they are here. Their song with the ending of clicks that sounds just like some kind of data transmission is a real sign of summer.

tekno.mage

treecreeper · #9 (**permalink**) 16-10-2009, 02:21 PM

I love finding earthstar fungi. Geastrum pectinatum comes up every year in Meols, in one of the parks. I'd love to live in Norfolk for a while and see some of their rare ones.