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The Chernobyl Disaster May Have Also Built a Paradise

Via: bob-nelson • Pets & Animals • 12 Comments • 5 years ago

They burned down forest for pastureland and cut down trees for timber—or for fuel to make glass and vodka. By the middle of the 20th century, most of that industry was gone, and...

Feral Parrots Are Taking Over America

Via: bob-nelson • Pets & Animals • 25 Comments • 5 years ago

The United States was home to just two native parrot species, the Carolina parakeet (now extinct) and the thick-billed parrot (now only found in Mexico). But that doesn’t mean Americans...

One Million Species at Risk of Extinction, Threatening Human Communities Around the World, U.N. Report Warns

Via: bob-nelson • Pets & Animals • 10 Comments • 5 years ago

Our world is losing biodiversity, and fast. According to a report released today by the United Nations, up to one million species could face extinction in the near future due to human...

When life is but a stream, insects need something extra-sticky to survive

Via: bob-nelson • Pets & Animals • 1 Comments • 5 years ago

Mercifully for these minuscule creatures , they’re hatched into the world with something of a superpower for surviving the tough terrain: a versatile silk, dispensed from glands under their...

Will we ever know the difference between a wolf and a dog?

Via: bob-nelson • Pets & Animals • 8 Comments • 5 years ago

A female wolf and her pup in Canada. Photo by Enn Li Photography/Getty Living in the Canadian Rockies allows me ample opportunities to get out into nature. In an hour outside the...

The mistakes people make at the dog park that put their pet at risk

Via: perrie-halpern • Pets & Animals • 12 Comments • 5 years ago

By Dana McMahan If you've got spring fever and are itching to get out and play, you're not alone. Pups across America have a winter's worth of energy they're ready to unleash, so their people...

Australia is trying to kill its cat population by dropping poisonous sausages from planes

Via: john-russell • Pets & Animals • 5 Comments • 5 years ago

Australia is trying to kill its cat population by dropping poisonous sausages from planes Australia is waging war, but it has an unlikely opponent. The Australian...

Things to Know on Dog Farting Awareness Day - Today April 8th

Via: kavika • Pets & Animals • 23 Comments • 5 years ago

Who farted? Credit: Mike Burke Unsplash Even before the children’s book Walter the Farting Dog hit bookstores in 2001, the youngest members of society have known the truth....

Yes, Giant Technicolor Squirrels Actually Roam the Forests of Southern India

Via: bob-nelson • Pets & Animals • 17 Comments • 5 years ago

The multi-hued, three-foot-long squirrels currently taking the internet by storm are no Photoshopped mythical creatures. As Jason Bittel reports for National Geographic , the...

Dog breeds are mere Victorian confections, neither pure nor ancient

Via: bob-nelson • Pets & Animals • 1 Comments • 5 years ago

Before the Victorian era , there were different types of dog, but there were not that many, and they were largely defined by their function. They were like the colours of a rainbow:...

Meet Piper the Airport dog

Via: sparty-on • Pets & Animals • 17 Comments • 5 years ago

Wildlife Control at Cherry Capital Airport K-9 Piper’s function is to increase safety by responding directly to reports of wildlife and conducting regular patrols. He spends most of his time...

Where eagles flirt: A Capitol tale of love, loss and raccoons

Via: perrie-halpern • Pets & Animals • 16 Comments • 5 years ago

By Associated Press WASHINGTON — It's a tale with everything you'd need for a soap opera: star-crossed lovers, a stable relationship threatened by younger suitors, pregnancy and loss, and a hungry...

California science exhibit explains the dog-human friendship

Via: jasper2529 • Pets & Animals • 5 Comments • 5 years ago

Did people domesticate dogs or was it the other way around? And why do these two species seem to think so much alike, act so much alike and get along so well? The California Science Center...

Caption This!

Via: krishna • Pets & Animals • 34 Comments • 5 years ago

What caption would you use for this?

A cardinal that is half male, half female puzzles scientists, delights birdwatchers

Via: perrie-halpern • Pets & Animals • 10 Comments • 5 years ago

By Ben Kesslen Shirley and Jeffrey Caldwell don’t fashion themselves professional birdwatchers, but they dabble. “We just watch out the window, and we have some feeders,” Shirley told NBC...

Cat Box (English Subtitles)

Via: the-irascible-harry-krishner • Pets & Animals • 21 Comments • 6 years ago

Two Cats on a Treadmill (LOL!)

Via: the-irascible-harry-krishner • Pets & Animals • 2 Comments • 6 years ago

Who cares if dogs aren't exceptional? At least they're better than humans

Via: perrie-halpern • Pets & Animals • 67 Comments • 6 years ago

I don’t care if science says my dog is dumb, because I already know that she is. She’s afraid of paper bags, for Pete's sake. She’s snapped her nose in a mouse trap more than once. She runs from...

13 Things You Do That Your Cat Actually Hates

Via: johnrussell • Pets & Animals • 4 Comments • 6 years ago

Do you really think your kitty likes being picked up by your toddler nephew? Experts explain which human behaviors irritate our cats most. Tummy rubs Kutikova Ekaterina/Shutterstock...

Our Dogs Give More Than They Take

By: johnrussell • Pets & Animals • 65 Comments • 6 years ago

The life of our pet dogs has sometimes reminded me of the line from the play "I have depended on the kindness of strangers". For that is what our dogs do. When they come to us they don't know...

These domesticated foxes were 60 years in the making

Via: bob-nelson • Pets & Animals • 3 Comments • 6 years ago

Does the future have pet foxes? Scientists are uncovering new clues to the origins of domestication in an unlikely creature: foxes. After nearly 60 years of selective breeding in Siberia,...

Parrots Think They’re So Smart. Now They’re Bartering Tokens for Food.

Via: bob-nelson • Pets & Animals • 2 Comments • 6 years ago

Chalk up another achievement for parrots , with an odd twist that raises questions about whether the experimenters or the birds know best. Image is clickable A test of four different...

Scientists Have Discovered the First Known Omnivorous Shark

Via: bob-nelson • Pets & Animals • 5 Comments • 6 years ago

A bonnethead shark. D. Ross Robertson/Wikimedia Sharks are virtually synonymous with carnivorousness , but the bonnethead shark, as new research suggests, is a true flexitarian,...

Why the Earth Has Fewer Species Than We Think