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Friday Catblogging: Which Big Cat Has the Strongest Bite?

Embed from Getty Images Sarah McPherson asks Which big cat has the strongest bite and just how deadly is that bite for humans?: The jaguar has the strongest bite of any big cat relative to its size. Research by Adam Hartstone-Rose and colleagues at the University of South Carolina, who compared the bite forces of nine different cat species, reveals…

Daily Bread for 6.19.26: The End of Ridglan Farms

Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 74. Sunrise is 5:16 and sunset is 8:36 for 15 hours 20 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waxing crescent with 26 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1865, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas,…

Daily Bread for 5.8.26: Improving a Habitat in the Central Sand Plains

Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 67. Sunrise is 5:39 and sunset is 8:03 for 14 hours 24 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 62.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1945, the German Instrument of Surrender signed at Berlin-Karlshorst comes into effect. (The…

Friday Catblogging: Cat or Otter?

Embed from Getty Images Cat! Over at Discover Wildlife, Catherine Smalley has the answer: The jaguarundi is one of the strangest-looking cats in the Americas. Long-bodied, short-legged and sleek, it has more than a hint of otter or weasel about it, which explains why it is sometimes called the otter cat. Yet this elusive hunter…

Daily Bread for 6.24.25: Prairies & Pollinators

Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 84. Sunrise is 5:17 and sunset is 8:37, for 15 hours, 20 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 1.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1812, Napoleon’s Grande Armée crosses the Neman river beginning the invasion of Russia. An interlude for…