Long-eared Jerboa Video

These bouncy little guys should be the stars in a future Pixar film! Or maybe a major science fiction pic – they’re too cute to be real.

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Wolves of the Coastal Rainforest

On the western coast of Canada lives a population of small wolves that are likely genetically distinct from their grey wolf cousins.
Pacific Coastal wolves are  have red-tinted hair instead of grey, exist largely on a marine diet and spend much of their time swimming between islands. This makes this wolf population unique in behaviour, looks, [...]

Essential Frog Pee

Here’s a question you’ve no doubt pondered many times – are there frogs living in the Arctic?
Frogs after all, are amphibians who must have ponds, marshes or other bodies of water to survive. Water keeps their skin moist, and is essential for the development of the young. With temperatures plunging far below freezing in the [...]

A Black-footed Future

A small, cat-sized carnivore with masked eyes has returned from the brink of extinction.
The black-footed ferret was once found throughout the Midwestern plains of North America. Catastrophic habitat loss and the near eradication of prairie dogs by farmers were blamed for their demise, as they eat almost nothing except prairie dogs. Fifty years ago, scientists [...]

How Smart Is a Crow?

I knew members of the Crow or Corvidae family were smart, but this video blew me away! He tries it, thinks about it, then fixes the problem. Too spooky!

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Snake Ahoy

When people think of prairie rattlesnakes, they generally think of sand, cactus and hot dusty rocks. Here’s an alternate view!
These pictures were taken in southern Alberta, just north of Dinosaur Provincial Park, and yes the park has a healthy rattlesnake population.  Whether this big guy was too hot, or just trying to get to the [...]

More Frogs!!

Good news in frog world this week.
Scientists from the Spanish Scientific Research Council have found more than 200 new species of amphibian on Madagascar.
The discovery almost doubles the number of known amphibians on the island, and suggests the find of between 129 and 221 new species of frogs could also double the number of amphibians [...]

Bone Bustin’ Birds

In the high mountains of southern Europe, Africa, India and Tibet lives a large bird that exists on a diet of bone.
The lammergeier, or bearded vulture, eats almost exclusively the bones of dead animals – up to 90% of their diet is bone. They are the only vertebrate in the world with this diet, and [...]

Sea Turtle News

I have a real fondness for sea turtles. Gentle, unassuming, charismatic creatures just trying to live their lives as they’ve done for millions of years.
In spite of the size of our oceans, these big reptiles are facing a number of threats to their survival. Pollution, changing ocean temperatures, man-made lights on the beach, disappearance of [...]