Weasels, otters and their cousins | Dungeness River Audubon Center — SANTA MONICA BAY AUDUBON SOCIETY BLOG

[Posted by Chuck Almdale, thanks to Carol Prismon-Reed] I received this at the last minute. If you like these furry critters, the show is tomorrow afternoon at 4 PM, December 9, 2020, but REGISTER FIRST. I hope you can read this as I didn’t have time to change any of the formatting, and it might […]Weasels, …

Pancake Comment Period Almost Over — Western Horse Watchers Association

A news release published yesterday by Friends of Animals urges you to tell the BLM that you oppose the removal of wild horses from the Complex. Don’t do it.  BLM already knows that. The problem is in the RMPs listed in Section 1.0 of the Draft EA and those documents are not up for review […]Pancake …

Rescue Animals Are TIME’s 2020 Pet of the Year — TIME

“In the end, I’ve got antibodies and a dog named Fauci.” That’s how Los Angeles-based lawyer Kari Milone says she’s choosing to look back on the eight months that she spent trying to adopt a rescue dog in 2020—a time period during which she not only lost her second dog in less than a year,…Rescue Animals …

G(e)nomic Wisdom — TwilightBeasts

When I first started doing ancient DNA way back in two thousand and [polite cough], every base pair was a win. Nature papers were published with less sequence than you’d now expect a fresher to produce in their first lab practical. The exciting thing about being in a new and expanding field was the way […]G(e)nomic …

Winter’s Song Dogs: Eastern Coyotes! — Oakland County Blog

WILDER SIDE OF OAKLAND COUNTY Aldo Leopold wrote: “There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.” I consider myself an unabashed member of the latter group. Coyotes certainly represent “wild things,” but they are not restricted to rural sections of our county. They are extremely adaptable creatures, and it’s perfectly…Winter’s Song …