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Fish Migrating Off Your Plate ...
Discovery News - Technology —
Authority: 736
... And you cant just stab it with a fork to make the slippery beast stay put. This is one of the many other ways climate change is making itself unmistakable: Fish are emigrating as their waters warm. Fishermen are ...15 hours ago -
Hey Everyone, Pigs Are Smart
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
Authority: 726
With all the bad press that pigs have been getting of late, owing to the swine flu scourge, it’s good to see that an academic journal, Animal Behaviour, has given our porcine friends a PR boost in the form of a study that proved pigs know how to identify themselves, and explore their surroundings, using mirrors. ...1 day ago -
Spike says goodbye
Paws 'n' Claws —
Authority: 135
One last pic of the cutest girl ever. Normally on a free Saturday I’ll go to Diane’s class then chill and do the Times crossword puzzles then whatever…but last Saturday, as you can see from post from below, I got nothing done because of time spent with this cuddly one. Spike’s getting ready to go home here, ...1 day ago -
Monster Fishs Creepy Eating Habits
Discovery News - Technology —
Authority: 736
I am jealous of the slingjaw wrasse (Epibulus insidiator). We humans are pitiful, prissy eaters by comparison. In order for me to eat a meal, I not only have to sit at a table, but manipulate utensils to cut food ...1 day ago -
Polar Pals
Animal Planet: Animal Oddities —
Authority: 118
Heres another example of odd animal companions, a topic that Ive blogged about here before . The range of behavior and adaptability of some species of animals truly is amazing. These polar bears are not just robotic slaves to instinct and their primal urges to eat and reproduce. If they were, this would be a ...1 day ago -
Hunting across Southeast Asia weakens forests survival, An interview with Richard Corlett
Mongabay.com News —
Authority: 137
A large flying fox eats a fruit ingesting its seeds. Flying over the tropical forests it eventually deposits the seeds at the base of another tree far from the first. One of these seeds takes root, sprouts, and in thirty years time a new tree waits for another flying fox to spread its speed. In the Southeast Asian ...2 days ago -
Reconciling Difference
Blogs —
Authority: 159
Her joys, her woes, Her highs, her lows, Are second nature to me now; Like breathing out and breathing in. . . .Ive grown accustomed to the trace, Of something in the air; Accustomed to her face. -My Fair Lady Today, Frederick Loewes My Fair Lady raises more than a few politically correct eyebrows, yet the ...3 days ago -
Babysitting Spike
Paws 'n' Claws —
Authority: 135
Oh joy! Rapture! Got the best wake up call from Diane asking me if I could mind Spike after class for the day, as she had lots of driving around and visits to make, and while Spike is too big a girl to be carried in the car all day, the wee one still needs feeding etc. Lucky me! Hi Spike! As any cat owner knows, the ...3 days ago -
You Could Be Hurting Your Animals’ Feelings!
Naked News —
Authority: 172
As a pet owner you can be helped in a number of ways with animal communication. Understanding your animal from their perspective allows you to give them the best life possible. It can be very easy to place our own thoughts and understanding on animals without really understanding them. This is why animal communication ...4 days ago -
Worlds first video of the elusive and endangered bay cat
Mongabay.com News —
Authority: 137
Rare, elusive, and endangered by habitat loss, the bay cat is one of the worlds least studied wild cats. Several specimens of the cat were collected in the 19th and 20th Century, but a living cat wasnt even photographed until 1998. Now, researchers in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, have managed to capture the first film of ...5 days ago -
Taking a small break
Paws 'n' Claws —
Authority: 135
P&C friends, I’m taking a bit of a long weekend and stepping away from the computer (I hope!). I don’t even want to pay bills or see what classmates have found me from schools I never went to (you get that spam too? drives me crazy!) In the meantime, however, Stanley will be keeping an eye on you while I’m ...5 days ago -
Pet radio
Paws 'n' Claws —
Authority: 135
Got this the other day on behalf of the people who bring you “Animal Magnet Pet Radio.” Personally, I prefer to read me, but then again, I don’t have guests and you can listen to these guys at work without anyone knowing, which is hard to do with a blog. So I give you permission to listen. Just remember where ...5 days ago -
The Secret Lives and Loves of Great White Sharks
80beats —
Authority: 654
Great white sharks, much like humans, tend to stick to familiar turf, according to new research. Also like a lot of people, they like to hang out along the coastal waters of California. Sharks tagged with acoustic devices often spent up to 107 days at four key sites along the central and northern California coast ...6 days ago -
The Year of the Dog, I
GARY PRESLEY —
Authority: 118
We are dog people, my wife and I. I am so by nature. I have had dogs since I was six. She says she was free of the disease until infected by me. We now have another dog, a Boxer puppy, a young female who came into our life because six years ago my wife met a handsome Boxer named Trooper in a hotel elevator in ...6 days ago -
Palm oil threatens Borneos rarest cats
Mongabay.com News —
Authority: 137
Oil palm expansion is threatening Borneos rarest wild cats, reports a new study based on three years of fieldwork and more than 17,000 camera trap nights. Studying cats in five locations—each with different environments—in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, researchers found that four of five cat species are threatened by ...6 days ago -
Californias great white sharks are a distinct population
Mongabay.com News —
Authority: 137
Researchers have long thought that white sharks Carcharodon carcharias migrated across oceans, but a new study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows that the population in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, along California, hasnt mixed with other white sharks for tens of thousands of years.1 week ago -
Kenya’s Man-Eating Lions Not as Man-Hungry as Previously Thought
80beats —
Authority: 654
According to legend, the infamous Tsavo man-eating lions dined on 135 people near a Kenyan labor camp prior to their capture in 1898. The two maneless lions have been a crowd favorite at Chicago’s Field Museum, where the stuffed beasts have been on display for over 80 years. But after analyzing fragments of the ...1 week ago -
Wolves keep forests nutrient-rich
Mongabay.com News —
Authority: 137
As hunting wolves is legal again in two American states, Montana and Idaho, researchers have discovered an important role these large predators play in creating nutrient hotspots in northern forest environments. Researchers from Michigan Technological University found that when wolves take down their prey—in this ...1 week ago -
Happy (belated) Halloween
Paws 'n' Claws —
Authority: 135
The city of Peekskill in Westchester celebrated the opening of its new dog park at Tompkins Park on Saturday and yep, you guessed it, they made it a Halloween event with dressed up dogs!! The park has been in the making for the past 16 months as a joint partnership between the city and the volunteer Peekskill Dog Park ...1 week ago -
Tsavo lions ate 35 people, not 135
Mongabay.com News —
Authority: 137
A recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that the two man-killing lions of Tsavo very likely did not kill and eat as many people as claimed. Looking at hair and bone samples from the pair of male lions, now resting in the Chicago Field Museum, researchers were able to determine ...1 week ago
