Burning Bridges Like Matchsticks

One of the more charming habits of entomologists is their habit of keeping particularly large and showy insects as pets. One of their less charming habits is the way that said pets inevitably end up pinned and labeled in a Cornell box upon scuttling off this mortal coil. Thank goodness that mammologists don't do this.



This is a former pet of mine. I used to feed him baby yellow perch every week. Very well behaved, but he never learned to play fetch or roll over.