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__Greg's Adventure__ One day a blue grouse named Greg woke up to find him and his wife's eggs missing from their nest. In a panick he went to go tell his wife. "Oh no, you must go look for them!" said Gabby the Wife Grouse. "But the temperate rainforest is just so big" said Greg. "How will I ever find them?" "It doesn't matter, you have to go look!" said Gabby. With that, Greg left his home, a lovely western red cedar tree, to go find the eggs.



As he was flying along he got very tired and had to land on the ground for a little bit. While on the ground he caught a glimpse of a pink velvet worm catch and eat a fall webworm moth. But, he couldn't stay long because he had to get going to find the eggs. Once he got going again he decided it would be best to fly close to the ground so he could be on the lookout for the eggs. But, because he was flying so closely to the ground he ran into a black-tailed deer. "Hey!" Greg called to the deer. "Did you happen to see an animal come by here with some eggs?" "No" said the deer. She looked very sad and had a depressing tone when she talked. "Is something wrong? You dont look so good." asked Greg. "Yes. Actually, I have treponema padillum in my liver. It's making me feel awefully sick." said the deer. Greg felt very bad for the deer but he knew he had to get going. "I sure wish I could help but, I have to get a move on if I'm ever going to find my eggs." said Greg. "It's okay, my sickness will go away eventually." said the deer.



Greg knew that the deer wanted him to go find the eggs so, he said goodbye and then went off in search of them. While hopping along, because he was tired of flying, he picked up some salmon berries. For some odd reason, he started thinking about how his eating the berries was an example of mutualism. Greg put the thought out of his mind and pushed forward, following a snake's trail. While he was walking he saw many sights, other birds flying, frogs hopping, trees swaying, and Samantha the Snake slithering away with Gabby's eggs. What?!?!?! Greg took off toward the sky and divebombed Samantha. Greg's beak missed and slammed the ground so hard that Samantha slithered away right out of her skin leaving the eggs behind. Greg didn't know it would be that easy to scare off Samantha. He then gathered his eggs and started off toward home. Greg was as happy as a blue grouse could be and when he got home, so was Gabby. Now all was well and they lived happily ever after.

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