James Gorman reports How the Cat Gets Its Stripes: A team of geneticists reported Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications that it had identified a gene in domestic cats that plays a key role in creating the traditional tabby stripe pattern, and that the pattern is evident in embryonic tissue even before hair follicles start…
Nature
Conservation, Daily Bread, Nature, State Government
Daily Bread for 9.2.21: Wolf Quotas by ‘Amateur Auction’
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 79. Sunrise is 6:21 AM and sunset 7:26 PM, for 13h 04m 28s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 21.2% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM. On this day in 1945, the Japanese Instrument of Surrender…
Cats, Nature
Friday Cat Blogging: Arizona Bobcat Notices She’s Being Watched
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Film, Nature
Film: Treeline
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Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Jaguars Could Make Make a Southwestern Comeback
by JOHN ADAMS •
Embed from Getty Images Coral Murphy Marcos reports Jaguars could be reintroduced in US south-west, study says: Jaguars could be reintroduced in the south-western US, where hunting and habitat loss led to the big cats’ extinction, a new study says. Scientists and other environmentalists make the case for bringing back the third-largest big cat, after tigers…
Animals, Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Cat-cus
by JOHN ADAMS •
“Catcus?” You may be cool, but you’ll never be bobcat sitting in a cactus cool. Perched on a saguaro, this bobcat finds itself in a sticky situation @OrganPipeNPS. Perhaps it’s scanning the landscape for dinner or just enjoys lookin’ sharp? #NationalParkWeek pic.twitter.com/HLXXC4II74 — National Park Service (@NatlParkService) April 22, 2021 See also Bobcat in a…
Animals, Birds, Film, Nature
Film: À Deux Pas…
by JOHN ADAMS •
Cats, Natural Disasters, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Cat feared dead in 2018 California mudslide found alive
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Film, Nature, Plants
Film: The Life of Flowers
by JOHN ADAMS •
Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Rare Scottish Wildcats
by JOHN ADAMS •
Adventure, Documentary, Environment, Film, Nature, Weather
Film: Glacier Exit
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Animals, Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: How Lions See & Hunt at Night
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Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: A Cougar in Utah
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Anastasia Tsioulcas reports Man Escapes Cougar: ‘Dude, I Don’t Feel Like Dying Today’: Twenty-six-year-old Kyle Burgess was on a 10-mile run on Saturday up Slate Canyon in Provo, Utah. He told the Deseret News that when he saw four cougar cubs on the trail, he took out his phone and started filming. But when Burgess…