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NC lab workers who abused beagles (including mine) indicted
Huckleberry Looks to Heaven Four workers who worked at the NC lab busted by PETA were just indicted on felony animal cruelty charges. Since two of the 200-some animals they abused are now in my family,...
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Birders hoping (in vain) The Big Year will make them cool
Birders are readying for the spotlight. The improbable big budget comedy about cutthroat birding, The Big Year opens today. Variety says Audubon is spending upwards of $100,000 on screenings and promos...
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On the internet, everyone knows you love dogs
Huckleberry's powerful cuteness may be why people are so chatty about animals online. Do you see lots of dogs for adoption and petitions against pet lions online? Social media may be great for...
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What 60 Minutes’ Love Letter to TX Canned Hunts Got Wrong
simitar oryx hunting Laura Logan thanked hunters on 60 Minutes for saving endangered species by paying thousands of dollars to shoot them on canned hunts in Texas.* She gulped down the game ranchers’...
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The Hunter: Crushing the fantasy if the Thylacine wasn’t extinct and someone...
If I could see any surviving animal on the planet, I’d probably pick a Tasmanian Tiger. Also known as a Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), it’s a cult favorite of animal tourists because it’s...
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Explorers hope for less boring critters on upcoming seafloor trench dives
Richard Branson hopes the Puerto Rico trench is less boring than the Mariana Trench. Director James Cameron made a huge, historic dive to the Mariana Trench last week, only the second mission in...
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How to find a dog-sitter online, sorting through the DogVacay, Care.com and...
Gratuitous adorable picture of my beagles, Moxie and Huck, killing Barney Our dogs come with us on all possible trips. But sometimes it’s impossible to bring them–thanks, mostly, to antiquated and...
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Rarest rhino species may be saved by crowdfunded drones
Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy is trying two new technologies to save what are possibly the last four northern white rhinoceroses (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) from poachers, who sell horns for Middle...
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Closing MT’s only wildlife rehab center, home to bear, lynx, Ted Turner’s...
Mountain lion has a place to hide at Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary. The Yellowstone Sanctuary, the only real place for damaged wildlife to live in Montana, may have to shut down because of some...
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Green heron nest survived Googa Mooga
An adult green heron feeds two chicks in Prospect Park The green herons nesting in Prospect Park stuck it out through the huge and hated Googa Mooga festival and now are feeding two chicks. I saw one...
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