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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

10,000 Birds

Nitin hopes to enlarge his collection of photos of Tigers. In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. Anyway, it is winter and the snakes should be hibernating.

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Utah's Shelters Providing Strays to Labs for Research

Critter News

Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. University officials say they only collect animals from shelters willing to participate and pound animals are steered toward nonlethal experiments. From the AP.

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The Bluebird by John Burroughs

10,000 Birds

Hearing and seeing a bluebird bring to his mind the process of tapping trees and boiling the sap collected down to syrup. He is happy the bluebird has returned and he hopes that it will nest by his house in “Downy’s cell,&# that is, the abandoned hole of a Downy Woodpecker. Wicked, right? Get yours today!

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

10,000 Birds

There is a photo of him caring for a White-chinned Sapphire in the book, the only human pictured in Dunn’s 16-page collection of hummingbird photographs, and it is inspiring. He sat…his crown giving searing shafts of violet as the light caught the feathers at just the right angle. Jonas D’Abronzo.

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Kermie

Animal Person

Based on whatever data she collected, she’d alter her course and continue her search. When I informed Dave of what Emily and I were doing, he reminded me that some frogs are fatally poisonous to cats. He started frolicking with abandon in the dried green moss at the base of Bob, our resident Spathophylum. Translation?

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Happy “Howl-a-days”!

4 The Love Of Animals

They are collecting sweaters to help dogs in shelters keep warm in the winter months. A fun and easy holiday treat to make for your dog, and for the other dogs in your life, can be found right here. Get down on the floor and play, maybe even invent a new game with your dog or cat. Relish time to just cuddle. source }.

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