Mr Mow Town wrote in :

It seems huricane Katrina has done more than expose the vulnerability of
the N.O. dike system, but has also exposed a new species of plant life
not indigenous to that area that has local botanists 'stumped'.

Can anyone identify these bushes?

http://img16.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bushvaca2gd.jpg

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Of the three animals in the foreground, which one would you believe to have
the highest IQ ??

I believe that the answer would be ... the fish ... in spite of it's
obvious comatose state.