This is Suzanne's cricket, Santiago, one of the few survivors of the dissection table. You see, we were doing some insect preservation the other day, and had leftover crickets, so Suzanne decided to keep one of them.
He neither flies nor jumps, and is quite content standing still on human hands. This photo was taken en route to Times Square.
Eventually, it fell upon me to take him home for a day as Suzanne and Denise had to lug two large bags of Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth (our MUET holiday reading assignment) which they bought for the whole class.
By the way, Santiago is a field cricket, Gryllus pennsylvanicus.
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