A LITTLE ANIMAL HUMOR...YEAH, VERY LITTLE...

(Once in a while – believe it or not – we like to lay off the serious stuff here at El Rrun-Rrun and share a few fish stories. Actually, the fisherman left, but animal stories will do. One gets weary of cataloguing the peccadilloes of local politicians. There seems to be no end to it. So we though we'd share a few laughs with you. Hope you get a few laughs out of them.)

By Juan Montoya
"I coulda been a contendah..."
Stop me if you head this one.
A mouthy and obnoxious chimp was walking through the zoo when he came upon a bunch of elephants peacefully feeding on their hay. He began to goad the beasts with stupid comments until
one of the patient pachyderms had had enough and approached the monkey to make him shut up.
This only set off the shrill chimp and he laid into the elephant again. The elephant grabbed him with his trunk and gave him a thrashing until zookeepers saw him beating the animal senseless and rescued the chimp.
"We better put this monkey in a cage for his own protection," said one and picked the unconscious animal up and threw him in a cage.
In the morning, when the chimp regained consciousness, he looked around and saw he was in a cage with bars.
"What an ass beating I must have given that elephant ," he exclaimed. "It's no wonder they put me in jail."

"Gotta pee....gotta pee!"
Ever wonder why those egrets and storks standing in the shallow waters stand on one leg and hold up the other?
Listen to what was overheard at the Gladys Porter Zoo when a little boy asked his dad the question.
"Dad, why is that bird holding one leg up?"
"Well, son, I think he wants to go pee and is trying his best to hold it in. You wouldn't pee in the same water you're going to drink and eat, would you?"|

"Is it safe to breathe now? 
Every person who drinks mezcal for the first time probably came across the bottle with the worm in it. Seems that there is a whole story behind the marketing of quality mezcal by the color of the worm in the bottle. The following comes from the official tequila website that knows about these things.
The site states that if you'r'e looking for a bottle with a worm, don’t look for it in a bottle of tequila — only mezcal is bottled with a worm. Mezcal is not the same as tequila — the two should never be confused. Tequila is made exclusively from the blue agave plant, whereas Mezcal can be distilled from blue agave, in addition to the other varieties of maguey plant native to the area.
 The use of the worm, or gusano is exclusive to mezcal. When you drink a bottle of mezcal con gusano – "with worm" – what you actually have in your bottle is the larva of one of two moths that live on the maguey plant. It is a mariposa worm, which feeds on the agave plant, from which Mezcal is made.
Now, why does the worm turn red in the bottom of the bottle?
Would you believe that it's holding its breath in order not to imbibe the mezcal and get drunk?