Playing at the National Zoo – Tian Tian woke up this morning to a lot of snow, and he was pretty excited about it. ?? #blizzard2016 pic.twitter.com/GrhI9t1u7j — National Zoo (@NationalZoo) January 23, 2016
Animals
Animals
Virginia Farm Meets Goat-Cuddler Quota
by JOHN ADAMS •
Embed from Getty Images Of course they did – WASHINGTON — An Albemarle County farm is no longer seeking volunteers to snuggle its baby goats after an “overwhelming response” from interested cuddlers. Caromont Farm in Esmont, Virginia, expects 90 baby goats, or kids, will be born by mid-February and asked for volunteers to provide extra…
Animals, Science/Nature
The Insects on a Faraway Island
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Animation, Science/Nature
Sunday Animation: The Living Fossil Fish
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Good Ideas
A Coffee Shop with a Spot for Stray Dogs
by JOHN ADAMS •
A photo has been making the rounds on social media showing a group of stray dogs napping comfortably on a bench of cushions as a result of one business’s act of kindness. The image was reportedly snapped at a café in Greece, where management sees fit to offer refuge to homeless pups after closing up…
Animals
How to Move Mountain Goats (If One Should Be So Inclined)
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Conservation, Environment, Nature, Religion
The Nature Display at St. Peter’s Basilica
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Weather
Pup’s First Rainfall
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Weird Tales
What Can Happen When You Sleep in a Subway…
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Science/Nature
Cricket Ballet
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Nature
Why Don’t Sleeping Bats Fall Down?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Nature
First-Ever Video of the Rare Omura’s Whale in the Wild
by JOHN ADAMS •
There are, even in the twenty-first century, new discoveries and observations to be made – Dr. Salvatore Cerchio of the New England Aquarium and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and an international team of whale biologists have just released images and detailed descriptions on the first scientific observations in the wild ever of Omura’s whales,…
Animals, Good Ideas, Technology
Kangaroo-Avoidance Technology
by JOHN ADAMS •
Only a matter of time — Stateside, as large mammals go, deer are probably the single biggest threat to cars traveling the highways. Now, imagine a smaller, “very unpredictable” deer that hops on two legs: that’s the hell of driving in Australia, where some 20,000 kangaroo collisions are said to happen annually…. There’s no word…