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Friday Catblogging: Bobcats in Connecticut

Embed from Getty Images Connecticut, parts go which are suburbs of New York City, isn’t a place presently associated with bobcats. That perception should change, as   Daniel Figueroa IV reports North America’s most common wildcat has a large, but nearly invisible, home in the Nutmeg state: If you have, over the last few years,…

Daily Bread for 6.29.22: Wisconsin’s Beautiful Dark Skies

Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 84. Sunrise is 5:19 AM and sunset 8:37 PM for 15h 17m 39s of daytime.  The moon is new with 0.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1987,  Vincent van Gogh‘s painting, the Le Pont de Trinquetaille, is bought for $20.4 million…

Friday Catblogging: Pumas as Influencers

Phoebe Weston explains why the puma is a leading influencer in the animal kingdom: Researchers reviewed 162 studies published between 1950 and 2020 looking at how pumas – also known as mountain lions or cougars – enrich ecosystems and support other species. They found the large cats contribute 1.5m kilograms of meat a day to…