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
. . . . . . 
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.
I looked at the man; I saw him plain;
Like a dead weed, gray and wan,
Or a breath of dust. I looked again–
And man and dog were gone,
Like wisps of the graying dawn…
–Madison Cawein, “Wasteland”
. . . . . . . . The Black Jaguar! . . . . . .
Hey, Dude, what’s happening?
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May 17, 2005 at 12:28 pm
zgirl
Hey! Judging by that photo, it seems to me that I saw a Fisher!
But, I thought Fishers were fast-moving?
The one I saw waddled much like our cat Bunky.
May 17, 2005 at 4:50 pm
og
Geez, zgirl, you may be right. It could be when fishers are not in a hurry they sort of waddle? Did it have a head like the ones in the pictures? Porcupines basically have no neck at all and a smallish head.
og
May 18, 2005 at 9:07 am
nash
Pretty good stuff, I’m sure he’s got a good bite. The black Jaguar I saw in Mexico though may have a little bit more pop.
Of course he lived in the zoo we visited.
Another neat guy we saw was the spider monkey. Those guys were fun to watch.
May 18, 2005 at 1:14 pm
Mahdey
Wow, Nash, a black Jag! Now that’s serious stuff. I don’t think it would pay for a fisher to get wise with that guy. As you say, he may have a bit more pop!
Hey, and spider monkey’s too. You must have had fun in Mejico!
zDadzio
May 20, 2005 at 9:27 am
nash
Thats him. Pretty tough looking cat. When he gets hungry, look out!
May 23, 2005 at 9:28 am
zgirl
I saw that critter again, and it waddled along.
Now I believe it was a porcupine, just for the record.
December 5, 2005 at 8:50 pm
TL Savarino
oh.
I gotta go
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