Burns described himself as a “Trump Republican.” He compared the province’s threat of restricting American access to New Brunswick’s fish and wildlife to something his president would do. ‘Just plain panic’: Fears mount as N.B. considers restricting U.S. hunters, anglers 847 comments on Meta More I have corresponded with Burns a bit. I have to wonder what …
Dog-guided cameras and weasels
For the second part of the study, the researchers relied on detection dogs. They placed cameras where the dogs alerted to possible weasel presence, resulting in 16 new camera locations. The researchers captured 77 weasels on camera in just over 200 nights. That’s a camera success rate of 81% compared with 1.5% without dogs. Not …
Bird Kite
At a field day at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland that featured walking robots and self-driving trailers, Savanna Institute researcher Lily Hislop was equally impressed by a low-tech innovation: kites designed to look like birds of prey to frighten away birds, rodents, and other farm pests. You can hear more about Lily’s recent …
Shiny Moose
Bob Kuhn (1920 – 2007)In His Prime (1991)acrylic on board14.5 × 18.5 inches21 × 25 × 1.5 inches (framed)signed lower left.The artist wrote, “The moose, with all his bizarre conformation, has a variegated and lustrous coat. You must first lay in the local color, which in art talk is the actual color without the …
Bird carvings: old ones, really old
Archaeologists have discovered two remarkable mammoth ivory carvings in southwestern Germany: intricate miniatures that are about the size of your thumbnail and date back 40,000 years. One depicts a resting bird, possibly brooding over its eggs, with a clear shape and a carefully carved head, beak, and eyes. The other seems to have its …
Languages spoken in China.
A point often forgotten. China is not a Han Chinese monolith.
A Moment with Sighthounds
Returning HomeOil on canvas18.25 x 26 in / 46.3 x 66 cmby Alfred von Wierusz-Kowalski (1849-1915)Polish painter and representattive of the Munich School As usual, open in a new tab for a bigger pic.
Fooled Again
Somewhere in early Pleistocene South Africa… An adult hominin searches along a stream; the distressed calls from an abandoned infant have awakened its parental instincts; even if the baby has been abandoned by a rival clan, it cannot remain indifferent. Unfortunately, there is no baby, and it has instead walked into an ambush… This piece …
Annie Dillard (April 30, 1945 – September 15, 2026)
I heard it on the radio yesterday. I read some of her work but memory fails on the specifics now. She was mentioned frequently in the past. We could use more talent like hers, especially now. When I saw the picture I was uncertain if I had ever seen an image of her before. I …
Human-like helpless infancy in Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis plus related claims
A long period of helpless infancy after birth is one of the most unique and mysterious characteristics in human life history. Because this trait is intimately linked to rapid postnatal brain growth, which is essential to produce the large human brain, researchers have long been interested in when it evolved. In a new study, researchers …