Monday, August 9, 2010

The Flora and Fauna of the Navajo Nation, Exhibit #1


The Beefalo, Americanus beefalolus

This fertile hybrid of cattle and bison, the American Beefalo, can be found roaming the red sand roads and high hills of the Navajo Nation, here in St. Michael's, Arizona. In the morning, the Beefalo typically feeds on the wet grass that lines the road to St. Michael's Mission. At night, the Beefalo feeds on the flesh of children who bike this road.

Be careful, this animal is extremely dangerous! He is prone to spontaneous running! He is likely to want blood!

Identifying features include a large black body, pronounced head and horns, distinct guttural moo, and Lincoln-esque beard. The Beefalo also tends to pose for black and white pictures. (See above.)

As noted the Beefalo is particularly dangerous at night. Against the darkness, the Beefalo moves surreptitiously through the woods and around the trailer court, impossible for any resident to determine whether or not that sound is a violent, dangerous bison-cattle hybrid, or a pack of violent, dangerous wolves.

Nevertheless people can often place him by the sound of his pan-flute, playing high in the vertiginous hills of this quiet land, playing for his company any song or spiritual that comes to his mind.


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