Posted in Identify the species on September 22, 2010 | 5 Comments »
This is a North American squirrel. I have actually seen one of these. They aren’t that common.
Hint: Look at the head. Ignore the color.
Posted in Identify the species on September 22, 2010 | 6 Comments »
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Posted in Absolute Piffle, wildlife on September 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
If he does that to a man, just imagine what happens when a cat or another introduced predator shows up.
Most birds run from cats.
This one wants to hump them.
Posted in Absolute Piffle, creationism, evolution, tagged creationism, evolution, Ken Ham on September 21, 2010 | 5 Comments »
This critique is scathing and very thorough. However, all you have to see are his diagrams showing coyotes as an intermediate stage between wolves and domestic dogs. And he also thinks dholes and African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) are just feral domestic dogs.
(Another good reason to change the name of Lycaon pictus. It’s not a feral dog at all. It’s really a living member of the old Xenocyon lineage.)
You don’t need to listen to the rest of it. You know he’s way off just from his failure to understand basic canid taxonomy.
The coyote species is older than the wolf species. How could coyotes be the missing link between dogs and wolves?
Posted in wildlife, tagged Sandhill crane on September 19, 2010 | 15 Comments »
I was wondering what kind of dog retrieves birds like these. Considering how sharp their bills are, I don’t think it would be safe. (That’s why dogs should never retrieve shot crows.)
We don’t have many of these in West Virginia, and when they pop up, everyone assumes they are whooping cranes. And the line is “You better not shoot those, or you’ll go to jail!”
Of course, where I live people think great blue herons are cranes.
That idiom come from the Scots dialect in Northern Ireland, where the grey herons are (were?) called “hern cran” (heron crane).
Posted in Identify the species on September 19, 2010 | 12 Comments »
It’s a terrible depiction:
Posted in Willie on September 18, 2010 |
Willie is daring his dad to take his chipmunk away from him.
And throw it for him.
I don’t think it’s working.
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