How jd2718 won a prize

No, not one of those great School Me! Teablogs like Frizzle or 3 standard deviations to the left (and others) got. This was not a prize for good blogging.

I solved a puzzle on Jenny Kissed Me, and the owner, Leigh, rewarded me with my own limerick. I only needed to name the topic, and he would write it.

Over on Evolving Education, the owner (a middle school math and science teacher, from the Midwest, but teaching in the south) had been wondering about “island dwarfism,” and if it extends to cave-dwelling species. The topic caught my interest.

Skeleton of a dwarf elephant from Sicily

For some extra details, and a link to my poem, click –>
“Island Dwarfism,” also known as insular dwarfism, is the tendency of some species to evolve into dwarf forms when isolated on an island. Some examples are pre-historic dwarf elephants from Sicily and other Mediterranean islands (the species from Cyprus apparently weighed about 200 pounds, too small to play in the NFL), island dinosaurs, but I also find hits for snakes and sloths and flies and a host of other animals.

So I asked for a limerick about insular dwarfism, and I got it. Have a look, here.