Cheetahs forced to cross roiling rivers, owls battered by storms \u2026 the tone of this look at how extreme weather affects animals is all a bit disaster movie. Subtle, it is not<\/p>\n
You have a thick neck and poorly defined calf muscles and you live in South Dakota with your feckless partner and your five expressionless children. You are an owl. Your days consist of lengthy stretches of nothing, punctuated by sudden bursts of unimaginable terror. Coyotes, badgers and snakes are all bent on reducing your beak to marmalade.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s the weather that poses the biggest threat. Specifically, shouts Force of Nature, it\u2019s the \u201cMONSTER STORMS\u201d that rumble ominously across the prairies, each of which forces you and your family to scurry into your burrow, whereupon you will stand with your trembling backs to the wall, legs wide apart and fluffy britches a-flap, like anxious viscounts in the court of Charles II. Will you survive? Or will you be eviscerated by the \u201ccluster bombs of tornadoes<\/em>\u201d that churn with increasing frequency through the midwest?<\/p>\n
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