The calanoid species more frequent in the Pyrenees is Diaptomus cyaneus, species with a relict occurrence in Dalmatia, endorreic and litoral lagoons of the western Mediterranean countries and frequent in the Pyrenees and in the North African Atlas.

In the early 30's, a humorist named Charles Rice attached labels to certain cartoon devices. He called sweat drops plewds and the dust clouds behind a running person briffits. This inspired Mort Walker to do some further research and, in 1964, he produced an article for the National Cartoonists Society magazine titled, Let's Get Down To Grawlixes. It was a tongue in cheek spoof of the plethora of comicana found in most comic strips.

But rescuers have a dwindling window of opportunity, with forecasters predicting the return of heavy monsoon rains in the coming days, effectively sealing off the cave until October.

They are legally mandated to intrude and imprison “the problemsome” on the grounds of dangerousness, whether “the problemsome” are truly dangerous or not and despite the fact that psychiatry's own research and amicus briefs indicate that psychiatrists have no reliability whatever in predicting dangerousness.