Greenlight for Saiga?
Series: January 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
From: Pat Maxwell
Length: 00:01:30
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Remember playing with animal match books? By flipping the left- or right-hand pages you could match the picture of an animal’s head with its body. Well, the saiga antelope looks like someone mismatched pages in the matchbook. Picture a small deer’s body matched with a very large camel’s head -- that’s a saiga...
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Piece Description
Remember playing with animal match books? By flipping the left- or right-hand pages you could match the picture of an animal’s head with its body. Well, the saiga antelope looks like someone mismatched pages in the matchbook. Picture a small deer’s body matched with a very large camel’s head -- that’s a saiga...
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