Martin Gumucio

Working at SLU, the Swedish Agricultural University has its upsides. For one there is a good amount of fun research going on. One of those projects use special GPS collars fitted on moose, that allow researchers to track the habits of the swedish king of the forest.

It’s from this project that the following astounding piece of data comes:

Apparently it’s quite common that when the female moose are about to give birth to a new little moosling (I wonder what the proper term is), that they swim out to a small island, free from predators. 400 meters of swimming in this case. Pretty cool, but more amazing is that it did the return trip in the company of the calf, when it was only three days old. Well done little fella!

Simon has been starting to say quite a few words recently, so i though it would be proper to assemble a list of the more cryptic parts of his current vocabulary. Consider it a handy guide for conversations with him.
His very first word I think its safe to say was ‘No’, and short thereafter he started to use his new word in contexts learned from his older brother such as ‘no i dont want to’, ‘no! i want to walk’, ‘no i don’t want to sit’ etc. That has been going on for months and months, but he still has not taken the time to learn to say ‘Yes’

The most frequent utterance from this pedandic fellow has to be ‘ OJ NEJ! ‘ ‘ OH NO! ‘ expressed in a dramatic voice whenever he discovers a drop of milk on the table, a smear on his pants or in similarly traumatic situations.

kaj ‘cold’, but also ‘water’
hihi bicycle
a-ha his older brother Aron
huhu dog
maoo cat

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