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“Daddy,” I say, “you are acting like a child. You are cared for here, fed, and given medication, yet all you keep saying is, “I want to go home,” over and over again. I’ll be better off at home since I haven’t been there in a year. The son declared, “I will take you without…
Although beauty is only skin deep, there is something to be said about the beauty that we see with our eyes. We know that we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but seeing something beautiful can really make you feel good. Of course, this sometimes is taken to an extreme and people will avoid…
It’s fair enough that you may not associate your local swimming pool with jogging, but the benefits of running in water are astonishing. This training method, known as aqua jogging or deep-water running, is considered an effective cross-training for anyone seeking escape from the humdrum of their usual exercise routine. Running in water has traditionally…
Here are 22 different animals that you have probably never even heard of before. Some of these are so amazing and interesting, while others seem to be some sort of design mistake. Either way they are all unique and beautiful. 1. The Dhole is native to south and southeast Asia. 2. The Babirusa is native…
The Voyageurs Wolf Project is a collaboration between the University of Minnesota and Voyageurs National Park which tracks and studies wolves throughout the warmer months. In 2018, the project studied six northern Minnesota packs, creating a map that showcases the intensely territorial way the animals behave, and how tightly they stick to their packs. The…
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Gray wolves are thriving at Isle Royale National Park five years after authorities began a last-ditch attempt to prevent the species from dying out on the Lake Superior island chain, scientists said Wednesday. Meanwhile, the park’s moose population continues a sharp but needed decline. Overpopulation of the lumbering mammals were…
Yellowstone National Park on Wednesday cautioned tourists to postpone travel to and inside the park because of a “significant winter storm” that created hazardous driving conditions. At the same time, researcher Taylor Rabe was afield in the park studying the Lupine Creek wolf pack. “Yellowstone’s Northern range had its first very big snow today, and…
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (AP) — The endangered red wolf can survive in the wild, but only with “significant additional management intervention,” according to a long-awaited population viability analysis released Friday. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service also released an updated recovery plan Friday for “Canis rufus” — the only wolf species unique to the United…
PHOENIX (AP) — A female Mexican gray wolf that a group of schoolchildren nicknamed Asha has been returned to the wilds of Arizona after she was found wandering in northern New Mexico outside of a zone set up for the recovery of her subspecies, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday. The wolf was…
Dogs evolved from wolves, but is one smarter than the other? Is this Karelian bear dog more intelligent than this trained wolf, or does the wolf have more smarts? At least 15,000 years ago, dogs evolved from groups of gray wolves, leading theories suggest. But does that mean modern-day pooches are smarter than their canine…