Showing posts with label extinction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label extinction. Show all posts
Saturday, July 30, 2022

There Were Millions, Once Upon a Time

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Cleaning an elephant skin for display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, June 1933. Source . Museum st...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

Non-Extinct Terriers & Other Mysteries

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Many of the terrier breeds that people now lament the "extinction" of never actually existed except in the minds of Victorian...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017

The Spread of Tanukis (Raccoon Dogs)

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The Tanuki or Raccoon Dog is an interesting animal that is hunted with terriers in Finland and, increasingly, in other European countr...
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Thursday, April 06, 2017

From Near Extinction to Common Pest in 50 Years

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It is hard to describe the destruction of American wildlife between 1850 and 1900 . By 1850 all the Elk had been shot out in the East ...
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Sunday, July 24, 2016

Hunting Ethics and Terriers

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A repost from June 2005. The hunting community has given a LOT of serious thought to ethical hunting and perhaps this is a topic over-...
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Saturday, June 25, 2016

Eggs Past and Eggs Future

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The picture above is a shot of a Victorian-era museum collection of wild bird eggs. These kinds of fantastic collections began around th...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Coffee, Birds & the World Bank

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American Redstart It is pathetic, but true, that there are 391 Starbuck's coffee houses within an hour's drive from my house ...
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Monday, October 19, 2015

Monarchs & Mexico

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A repost from this blog, 2009. "I understand more and more how population is the problem. I was asking almost every peasant I me...
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Friday, December 30, 2011

Time to Return the Golden Bear to California!

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A wandering radio-collared wolf has entered California from Oregon , making it the first wolf to return to that state in 80 or 90 years. ...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Let Us Give Thanks for Wild Turkey and Uncle Sam

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Wild Turkey Feathers. This is a repost from Nov. 2008 Let us give thanks to the Wild Turkey, America's largest ground-nesting bird. ...
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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Excuse Me, We Are Not Extinct!

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Gilbert's Potoroo Over at Wired Science they are talking about extinction.     It seems a couple of University of Queensland scient...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Group Sex and Porn

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A repost from this blog from May 2007. In mid-June horseshoe crabs start to roll up on to the beaches in the mid-Atlantic states. They c...
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Friday, July 02, 2010

Where the Buffalo Roam -- Again

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A repost from this blog, circa December 2004. Thanks to Teddy Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold, Gifford Pinchot, the American environmental movement...