Glossary

arboreal

Tree-living

Artemis

Greek goddess of the hunt and the moon

carnivorous

Eats meat

chaparral shrubland

Shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild, wet winters and hot dry summers) and wildfire, featuring summer-drought-tolerant plants with hard sclerophyllous evergreen leaves, as contrasted with the associated soft-leaved, drought-deciduous, scrub community of coastal sage scrub, found below the chaparral biome. (Wikipedia)

dogwood

Deciduous shrub

hibernate

Sleeps during the winter

moon

test

nymph

nature-deity

omnivorous

Diet includes both plants and animals

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