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Two weeks ago, the FW comment forum asked, in comments and a poll, what would be Whitewater’s First 70-Degree Day this Year? Today was that day (using the Weather.com data for Whitewater), topping out at over 80 degrees. (The National Weather Service data for the Whitewater area, using Janesville information, showed a high temperature of…

Primates are naturally fascinating, and here’s a video showing a white-faced capuchin —

Master falconers Eric Wittak of North Prairie and Gary Cox of Elkhorn fly their Harris’s hawks on a hunt in Waukesha County. Visit the link below for the gallery at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel‘s website — Via Falconry – JSOnline.

“A red fox listens out for mice scurrying six feet beneath the snow before diving head first into the drift to snap up its prey.”

National Weather Service forecaster Mark Gehring says the tornado went six miles in six minutes…. It also knocked down power poles, uprooted trees and moved a dog house across a yard with a dog in it. Gehring says the dog was fine. Via “Wis tornado moves dog house with dog inside” by Latest News —…

Conservation efforts have helped a few species avoid extinction, but the impact hasn’t been broad enough to stem the long-term decline in biodiversity, new research finds. The assessment, in two papers published Tuesday in the journal Science, concludes that the survival of one-fifth of the world’s vertebrates is threatened. However, the losses for three specific…

Several videos — See which you like best. My favorites: Cobra v. Mongoose, and Jaguar v. Crocodile. Cobra v. Mongoose Jaguar v. Crocodile See, Jaguar vs. Crocodile, Cougar vs. Bear, Shark vs. Octopus And 9 Other Epic Animal Showdowns (VIDEOS).