The Fisher King

Look at this fisher! He’s getting ready to go up that tree. What’s he after? Could be a porcupine.

www.nysm.nysed.gov/ WildSci/mam_picts/fisher.jpg

Here’s a sketch of a fisher taking a look at a porcupine. I’m afraid it’s going to be curtains soon for the porcky.
Credit: http://www.ecosystem.org/fisher/graphics
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Lou B has seen two of these creatures. See her comment under the White Rabbit thread.

Here’s another live one. Cute, huh?

www.defenders.org/wildlife/ new/meso/fisher.jpg

But who was the Fisher King??
For a good summary see here.
And here’s a strange little poem from that website:

And a man stood there, as still as moss,
A lichen form that stared;
With an old blind hound that, at a loss,
Forever around him fared,
With a snarling fang half bared.

–Madison Cawein, “Wasteland”

. . . . . . . . The Black Jaguar! . . . . . .

Hey, Dude, what’s happening?