Sammy’S Science

By Chester Thompson

Sammys Science is a collection of nature science facts told in story form, as heard on the Donkey Dan radio broadcasts that spanned four years of Sunday mornings on the old KLKY Prescott Valley Arizona Station. Many stories were told on the Farmer Family Album segment, and these are some of the science stories as told by George. These stories are based on the real-life moments of George growing up and when he had a family. Some stories were just notes and never made it to the show before we ended. Sammys Science will give you fun facts about our natural world of both animals and plants. Though it geared toward ages 916, adults would still like the science facts.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 9, 2018
• ISBN: 9781546250289

Chester Thompson

Chester Thompson was born on January 18th, 1945 at Amarillo, Texas on poultry ranch owned by his grandfather and father. His parents were told that he would die before he reached age two, but by age two he was very much alive. When he was two his grandmother died and his parents left Amarillo to move to Philadelphia to be near his mother’s family. However when he was in the third grade the family doctor told hismother that she and his younger brother Tom, needed to move to a dryer climate. So the family moved to Phoenix, Arizona. Chester entered the fourth grade when school started and attended school in Phoenix until he graduated from high school. He began his writing career doing reports on animals during his fifth grade and sixth grade school years. He was turned onto mystery books at the Maricopa county library branch in his Phoenix neighborhood while in the sixth grade. Being an avid reader he read many books on several topics. Detective and mystery books were among them. Books like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and Franklin W. Dixon’s ‘The Hardy Boys’ to name a few. Today at nearly 74 Chester enjoys writing on various topics but especially detective mystery. Mr. Fenton and ‘The Halloween Moon Case’ is just such a book.

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Published by AuthorHouse 07/06/2018

ISBN: 978-1-5462-5027-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5462-5028-9 (e)

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Contents

Introduction

Dedication

The Black and White Of It

We Dig Dirt

A Fish Story

A Special Visitor

Red And Black

Speedy

Is It Praying

The Amazing Honey Bee

The Shadow

A Terrible Tasting Beauty

The Cabbage Inn

A Hop Skip And Jump

Roscoe

Sly

The Worlds Hardest Working Bee

The Shadow Of The Red Eagle

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Introduction

Hi,

I’m Sammy Skunk of the Farmer Family Album from the Donkey Dan radio broadcast that spanned four years on the old K.L.K.Y. station out of Prescott Valley Arizona. Perhaps you have seen me crossing a road or at the edge of the forest. You may have seen me passing through the yards in your neighborhood looking for a meal. Did you know, that outside of people the only other real enemy a skunk has is an owl. Owls have no ability to smell the stink a skunk can shoot off. Even the great Alaskan brown bear will often go out of his way to make a wide circle around a skunk.

On the show Daphne Skunk and I took turns hosting the show and telling the stories of the Farmer Family. I personally worked the majority of my stories into the world of nature or as I like to call it natural science. Why not? After all skunks are a part of nature and for that matter so are you. So in the following stories I intend to teachyou a little about some of nature’s special creatures whether they are plants or animals.

Un-Stinking

Yours,

Sammy Skunk

DEDICATION

Sammy’s Science

Is Dedicated To Everyone

Children or Adults

Who Desire Knowledge

Of The Living Things Around Us

The Black and White Of It

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S ammy was sitting by the warm fire in the old oak tree house and Bonkers was sleeping on his rug near the fireplace. Momma skunk was out for the day with a few of her friends. Erasmus and Ewald came into the room very upset. What is all the arguing about? asked Sammy? Sorry dad but Eddie beaver said that skunks are pest, said Ewald.

He did! But it all depends on how you’re looking at it, said Erasmus.

Let me tell some facts about skunks, said Sammy daddy skunk. When Tremor heard that he dropped what he was doing and sat on his thimble by his mouse door behind the old grandfather clock. The wee little mouse loved Sammy’s stories and was so excited that he squeaked a bit too loud. Bonkers awoke and headed toward the old clock to see if he might catch Tremor off guard but as usual it didn’t happen. That is when a knock on the door happened. Ewald answered the door to find Eddie beaver asking if he could come in.

Come on in, said Sammy.

We are about to learn some things about skunks, said Ewald. The three boys sat on the couch near Sammy’s chair. Old Bonkers gave up his search for Tremor and wandered back to his rug.

"Well began Sammy, did you know that four different kinds of skunks live in North America. Skunks are very adaptable and opportunist. Of the four types the most common skunk is the stripped skunk. Then there is the eastern spotted skunk, the hooded and the hog nosed skunk. All skunks are black and white except for an albino now and then.

I didn’t even know that there was more than one kind of skunk, remarked Erasmus.

I knew that there was at least two kinds in North America, said Eddie. In the wild they live normally to four years old and weigh from 6 - 10 lbs, continued Sammy. As long as food, water and shelter are available they can live almost anywhere.

They seldom go more than a few miles from their dens which they locate within couple miles of a water source. Normally these dens are located in hollow trees, hollowed out logs, brush piles, or burrows from which other animals moved out of. But they can also be found under porches, storage buildings, in crawl spaces under houses and in other structures built by man.

A friend of mine found out that a skunk had a den under hisporch, said Ewald.

What exactly do skunks eat, asked Erasmus?

Skunks are omnivore which means they have a flexible diet. They like beetles, grasshoppers grub worms, bird eggs, and small rodents like mice. They will eat frogs, fruit, mushrooms, berries and just about anything else.

Why don’t we see more of them, asked Eddie?

It’s because they are mostly active at night, said Daddy Skunk.

I have never seen one in the winter. Do they hibernate,