The Instant Wild app, free and newly released by the Zoological Society of London, streams images to your iPhone or iPad from camera traps in Kenya, Sri Lanka, Mongolia and England’s Whipsnade Zoo. Images can also be seen via browser. “It’s amazing for people to just be sitting in their office or walking in the street and…
Animals
Animals, Conservation, Nature
DNR Establishes Anti-Poacher Hotline
by JOHN ADAMS •
I saw that the WI DNR has established an anti-poacher hotline. Not a bad idea, and especially nice to see that (as with similar hotlines) the state readily embraces a principle of anonymity: Help the wardens protect your natural resources and wildlife from poachers and violators. If you see anything suspicious during the pending 9-day…
Animals
Rats Cause Broadband Outage In Scotland
by JOHN ADAMS •
The loss of service was due to rodent damage to some underground cabling,” it said. “On Monday morning our engineers were on site as soon as possible and worked at the highest priority to repair the damage, with service restored early evening on Monday…. “Further damage was incurred on Tuesday afternoon and our engineers returned…
Animals, Government Spending, Police
Update 4: On Edgerton, Wisconsin’s Former Police Dog
by JOHN ADAMS •
There was a follow-up story in the Janesville Gazette about Edgerton’s former police dog, an animal that bit two people (one a police officer from another department, the other an office worker) before it was finally sent away. The cost of settling injuries to the police officer (apparently the lesser of the two injuries) was…
Animals
Friday Poll and Comment Forum: Dolphins in Captivity?
by JOHN ADAMS •
There’s a story in Wired about whether dolphins should be kept in captivity. In the confines of an aquarium tank, two dolphins crashed into each other, and one was killed: The dolphin, a 4-year-old named Nea, died on the afternoon of Sept. 5 at the [Chicago] Brookfield Zoo. According to a zoo press release, trainers…
Animals
Baby Hippo Ballet
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Weird Tales
Now Montello Children Get in on America’s Latest Craze
by JOHN ADAMS •
Of course they do – they’ve seen the future, and that future is in Mysterious Creatures. Last week, a Juneau County man claimed he found a hairless, mysterious looking creature along side a highway just outside Elroy. A debate ensued — was it just a sick animal, the legendary goat-sucking Chupacabra, or something else? Whatever…