I’m fascinated by animals who work as guardians to livestock. Here’s a post from Cat Urbigkit about her beautiful Akbash dogs who share duties with some guard burros.
Livestock guardian play: All this commotion caused pains to our guard animals, especially to the older pair of burros, which don’t like any change at all. But [...]
Here’s some amazing road-cam footage of a dog helping to save another dog who had been hit on the highway. (Hard to watch that footage of the first dog being hit, but amazing to see the other dog helping.)
I know it’s evil of me to spoil the good feeling, but I can think of [...]
Observers are wondering where the acorns are in parts of Northern Virginia, according to this Washington Post article, Acorn Watchers Wonder What Happened to Crop:
Whatever the reason for no acorns, foresters and botanists are paying attention.
But they say they’re not worried yet. “What’s there to worry about?” said Alan Whittemire, a botanist at the U.S. [...]
How about some strange critters? Check out WebEcoist’s list of “20 Strange and Exotic Endangered Species:
“The bladder-chewing guppy not enough for you? Can’t stop thinking about exploding ants, boyfriend-devouring she-monsters of the sea and blood-spurting lizards? Don’t worry – terrifying oneself is a common ailment of the intertubes. Unfortunately, there is no cure…but there [...]
Especially for our friends over on Spotty Horse News, here’s some amazing dressage work…on camel…
via Stephen Bodio’s Querencia
Duncan, in Victoria, Australia, writes the Ben Cruachan – natural history weblog, and posts some beautiful photos for Macro Monday.:
“I put the moth light out last night, first time for a while, the weather just hasn’t been suitable and I’ve been busy. Very little in the way of moths came in before I pulled [...]
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