Adam grinned. "I happen to know its mum lives pretty far away. It's here all by its lonesome with only its friends the spectaclemonster and the ruggersmonster to protect it."

Then he blushed slightly, shaking his head. "Didn't you pay any attention in Sunday school? Says right in Genesis that 'God created every livin' creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind.' He made all the animals first. Otherwise the world'd just be covered in eggs with no one to sit on 'em."