Nhubia does a good coyote, and kills the lure (Germany)
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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 …
Sanliurfa
The Kurdish Peshmerga from Iraqi Kurdistan are gathering in the southern Turkish province of Sanliurfa, south of the ancient city once known simply as Urfa, less than forty miles north of the border, looking south, and southeast, where a Kurdish Syrian town is besieged by an ancient enemy with a new face, one seen on …
Made in China
Earlier in the week, I visited the contemporary art galleries at the Denver Art Museum and saw this fabulous resin sculpture of a T-Rex (or maybe that’s an Allosaurus) by Sui Jianguo called Made In China. I confess I no sooner saw this than I heard Steve’s voice in my head saying, “Shoulda had feathers!”
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When we were together…..Dixon would never converse much. He did not need to. He was one of those rare and wonderful companions who did not carry with them a requirement that one engage in constant conversation. We had our occasional discussions of matters quite profound, but for the most part while visiting he would draw …
Quick Links & Pics
Not a hornet. Thagomizer Thagomized! Chorus: “Allosaurus shoulda had FEATHERS.” Southwestern petroglyphs and hallucinogenic plants. Cave art and auditory illusions. “Do you write, Mr. Faulkner?” Sounds like William Gibson has his best novel in a long while. I’m ordering it! It is a shame that one of our greatest living writers must resort to crowdsourcing …
Poorest of People Caught in Anti-Hunting Crossfire
In March 2011, a coalition of animal welfare groups opposed to the hunting of African lions petitioned the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for protection of this lion subspecies under the Endangered Species Act. FWS responded this week by proposing to list African lions as “threatened” – not the “endangered” status sought by the groups. …
Predator
Cooper’s hawks, quintessential Accipitrine stealth predators, transform themselves from hidden to active in an instant. Dan Gauss gets it here. But how did Audubon do something nearly identical about 175 or more years ago? I will try to find but this is better a search in books than in the electrosphere, books I assume that …