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Cats, Science/Nature

Friday Catblogging: Catcams for Science

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Karin Bruillard reports Catcam videos reveal cats don’t sleep all day. (Just some of it.): What does a cat do when nobody’s looking? One way to find out is to set up a pet cam to spy on kitty at home. Another way is to put little video cameras on cats’ collars, set the animals…

Cats, History, Music

Hep the Hepcat (December 1946)

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From the Library of Congress: Caption from Down Beat: Probably no dance band ever has played to so many empty tables consistently as the Sam Donahue ork [orchestra] during the recent double booking with Lionel Hampton at the Aquarium. The operators decreed that Sam should play afternoons, and the place isn’t open in the afternoon!…

Cats, Conservation, Nature

Friday Catblogging: Lion Relocation

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John Adams on Twitter How the world’s largest lion relocation was pulled off https://t.co/5KvE5wiUMz via @NatGeo Paul Steyn reports How the world’s largest lion relocation was pulled off: When he [Jorge Thozo, chief of the Thozo community] was a child, numerous prides of lions roamed the game-rich wetlands of the Zambezi Delta. But their numbers…

Cats, Faraway Places, Good Ideas

The Lanai Cat Sanctuary

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Hawaii may seem a paradise, but even within that wonderland there’s a cat paradise: Although he regularly greets guests at the Lanai Cat Sanctuary, Keoni Vaughn will never forget one passionate visitor who showed up a couple of years ago. “He came to the cat sanctuary … from Japan to spend the day with us…