The Desert Speaks

Jumping Cactus & Other Myths

Did you know the porcine javelina is not a pig! If you’re lost in the desert, you can always get water by cutting open a cactus, right? Wrong! The show focuses on such myths as “the jumping cholla,” a type of cactus that seems to leap onto unsuspecting bystanders; whether owls can rotate their heads 360 degrees; do hummingbirds ever rest, and do they really hitchhike on the backs of wild geese?

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