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25 Winged Chameleon This is not a bird. Anthropologist Laura DeLind, while sketching it in 2010 Like the grey catbird, which it sometimes becomes, morphing into cat or sprouting into bird, the winged chameleon sings meow meow meow hidden in the bush, scrambling in the branches like a pair of itself entangled, thrashing its way out to imitate what it hears next, the tree frogs croaking, poking holes in sound, and if alarmed the mallard quacking from across the pond, but it’s the tail, the striped appendage it can curl, its what am I question mark puffed up as any plumage, parakeet or peacock, that’s most appealing when it sits Cheshire grinning in its new zebra suit, the epitome of avian alchemy. ...

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