LOCUSTS (Carob)
Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, LOCUSTS (Carob): The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. Carob beans are a sweet treat & famine food, and the basis for the gemstone & gold unit of measurement.
SPERM WHALE
Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day: Sperm Whale (Parmacety): And telling me the most sovereignest thing on Earth, was parmacety for an inward bruise. Sperm Whales were almost hunted to extinction for the spermaceti in their heads, they are still endangered today.