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The gray short-tailed opossum ( Monodelphis domestica ), a small (60-150 g) marsupial native to scrub forests of southeastern Brazil, provides new opportunities for study of olfactory communication and pheromonal activation of reproduction.
But sainthood, I learned soon enough, is a fateWorse than life, nights on call for the demonsIn a vomiting lamb, a dry breast, a broken radio,And days spent parroting the timeless adages,Spent arbitrating water rights, property lines,Or feuds between rival herdsmen over scrub brush,Spent blessing every bride and anyone's big-belliedFourth or fifth wife, praying that they deliver sons.I thought back to the time, not ten feet from him,I heard a homily delivered by old John XXIII,Sounding wholly seraphic in his murmured Italian.
scrub ( n .) A small, mean person.
Each plant species indicative of intermediate levels of moisture, such as juniper, pinyon pine, scrub oak, and rabbit brush were given a score of 0.5.
A large part of this end of the island has been designated as the Bali Barat National Park, and the road crosses a small section of it, an area covered with woodland and scrub, with plenty of grey monkeys.