Some grizzly bears doing grizzly bear things to take you into the wee hours. Bring your pickanick baskets!
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by Adam L Silverman| 76 Comments
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Some grizzly bears doing grizzly bear things to take you into the wee hours. Bring your pickanick baskets!
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by Adam L Silverman| 68 Comments
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Here’s a family of bears that decided to join in the fun at Lake Tahoe a few days ago:
Open thread!
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I dunno what is going on lately, but I am in a struggle with Steve to retain my status as alpha male of the house, and Thurston is taking advantage of the leadership void. I stood there for thirty seconds saying get out of my chair at louder increments until I went and got my camera, took this picture, yelled at them to get up, and all I got was a look from Thurston before putting his head back down and going back to sleep. I had to dump them to get my chair back.
I had a prolonged argument with Steve earlier, too. I was washing dishes and heard him meowing at the front door, and I went and let him in and he immediately started bitching for dinner. I told him it was his fault he missed breakfast because he was outside the perimeter wilding, and he was having none of it bitching louder and louder until I finally yelled “Fuck you, you’ll eat when I’m done” at my cat. He huffed off out the dog door giving me the stink eye.
I’m losing control and I’m scared.
*** Update ***
Great, he knows I have been talking about him online.
by Adam L Silverman| 274 Comments
This post is in: Dog Blogging, Foreign Affairs, Lizard Blogging, Nature, Open Threads
These two dogs are an Australian penguin’s best friend — with skills that have saved as many as a two thousand birds in the last ten years.
Foxes had nearly decimated the population of ‘little penguins’ on Middle Island — killing nearly 200 a year.
But, since 2006 when Eudy and Tula started guarding the species, which is the smallest type of penguin in the world, there hasn’t been any evidence of a predator attack.
After the dogs started patrolling the island, the flock grew from a low of just 10 birds to more than 150 today.
It was a local chicken farmer, Swampy Marsh, who first suggested using the large, white Maremma sheep dogs as penguin guardians because they were so good at protecting his free range hens.
The community of Warrnambool sponsored the dogs’ training and still provides homes for them through the winter.
During the penguins’ mating season, the dogs patrol the island five days a week, spending their days off at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, where they meet visitors and help educate people about conservation.
(H/T: to a commenter in one of yesterday’s posts at Little Green Footballs)
And because its in the title:
Smile and Wave Boys, Smile and Wave: Dogs and Penguins EditionPost + Comments (274)
by Adam L Silverman| 133 Comments
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For those who just can’t be bothered, here’s the world’s laziest wolf who can’t be bothered getting up and actually responding to the other wolves.
Late Evening/Early Morning Open Thread: I Can’t Be Bothered EditionPost + Comments (133)
by Adam L Silverman| 139 Comments
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For your drifting off to sleep enjoyment this evening you have your choice: 15 foot bull gator toddling about a golf course in Florida, the two female protagonists from The Ring and The Grudge promoting their new movie by throwing out the first pitch at a Japanese baseball game, or both! Pleasant dreams!
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by Hillary Rettig| 50 Comments
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Kudos to Hillary Clinton for launching an official page on Protecting Animals and Wildlife. It’s short on specifics (the very thing Clintonistas like to rap Sanders for), and the free trade policies she’s enamored of directly undermine environmentalism and animal welfare in many ways, including:
Still, it’s a welcome development – and she hits many good notes, including protection for farmed animals and ending horse slaughter.
Sanders had a pro-animal page much earlier – although not on his official campaign site.
Huge kudos to my fellow animal activists for their decades of hard work that has brought, and is continuing to bring, animal issues more and more into the mainstream. Because animal welfare = human welfare = eco welfare, we all benefit.
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