4 The Love Of Animals
JUNE 26, 2012
A Farrier is a professional with a very unique set of skills, they are able to care for and treat ailments found in hoofed animals including horses, ponies and some other animals. This act was created to ensure proper care is provided to horses by eliminating unskilled people from attempting to shoe them.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2022
The altruistic vampire, back at the roost after a meal of horse or cattle blood, will regurgitate the blood to feed not only her own pup, but other adults and their pups too, all of this prompted by being groomed by the donee and, in particular, by being licked on the lips.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 30, 2015
They fly from extreme northern North America to the southern tip of South America and are seldom seen perched during migration. The goals were visiting Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Monument. Nest at Blue Mounds State Park, Minnesota. Photo Alfredo Begazo. I later learned about the Barn Swallow’s amazing annual migration.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2013
We boarded the 8:40 pm red-eye from JFK to Reykjavik on May 28; the intention was to sleep on the plane but with the excitement of travel and possibilities swirling around my head I didn’t sleep a wink (*tip – Iceland Air offers free stopovers for up to seven days as you travel from the US to Europe!
4 The Love Of Animals
JANUARY 14, 2011
Read on for some fascinating tips on how working with animals relates to our own weight! Using my Balance Differential number and other tips I learned, I have reduced my average daily calorie intake by only 100 calories — and now I weigh 30 pounds less! I have battled with my weight since age fifteen.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2011
Hat-tip to Stella. The naming of the hornbill family is a bit farther fetched. Wikimedia Commons Bucerotidae is etymologically opaque to most birders, I’d venture, but when Rafinesque described the family almost two centuries ago, he had kine on his mind. Wicked, right?
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2018
And, there is a fairy named Moth in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a superhero named The Moth, appropriately from Dark Horse Comics, the poor cousin to the two big comic book companies. It isn’t till page 9 that we find out that if the antenna is clubbed at the tip, it’s a butterfly and that “if it’s threadlike or feathery, it’s a moth.”
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