Here's a picture of a swamp that I saw on my hiking trip to Hontoon Island. How do I know it's a swamp and not a marsh or bog? AHA! That information I learned back in 8th grade, and I still recall it....vaguely....well, at least I knew there was a difference at all!
Doing research, it seems a swamp is a habitat that remains under standing water for most of the year. Marshes have plants growing in them, like the Marshes of Glyn, which I've visited when staying with my cousins on St. Simon's Island, Georgia.
A bog is the same thing as a mire, which is made of peat and looks as if it could suck you under and petrify your remains.
Remembering watching Basil Rathbone in The Hound of the Baskervilles when I was young, I recalled something called The Great Grimpen Mire, which one was never supposed to cross, and I think that's what happens to the villain in the end. It is the reason that I get a chill when I think about mires...the Hound lives there!
Anyway, this was a swamp, the least interesting of the three (my apologies to swamp-lovers). I didn't see a trace of animal-life around it, except for maybe a few bird calls. But then again, maybe all the animals got sucked in and suffocated...oh wait, that only happens with mires. ;)
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