With a little help from my friends– Carlos, Brad, Jim. I am not doing big game these days except in a group, hard in NM if you don’t pay top dollar. Which is why I may move my meat hunts north if health permits… All animals here provided feasts including long- gone lion– see Don …
Month: November 2014
Quote
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. – Richard Feynman, Cargo Cult Science
Programming Note
Steve asked me to put up a post to let everyone know that he is in Deep Springs visiting Jackson, Nikki and Eli. Internet access isn’t the best there, so he will most likely not be posting much for the time being.
Arrived…
If you prefer featherless Dinos…
… like those in Jurassic Park, you might also think chickens look like this:
The usual Doggage Heroine
Nhubia does a good coyote, and kills the lure (Germany)
Doggage # 1
Before Nhubia and company: Mark’s wirehairs in the early eighties, and the first alligator they retrieved, in a damper part of Texas…
Women’s Working Equine Partners
Shepherd’s burro in Bulgaria A new report estimates that there are 112 million working equine animals in the world, providing support to hundreds of millions of poor households in both rural and urban areas throughout the developing world. The breakdown includes: • 43 million donkeys; • 11 million mules; and • 58 million horses. Here …
Pluvi wins a big one
Helen Macdonald has just won the Samuel Johnson Prize, a VERY big deal. Nice to see prizes go to someone whose writing eminently deserves it, especially when her choice of subject is so quirky, even controversial, as falconry. It may say something about literary England– or nature loving England– that they would give a prize …