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Owls
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Thursday, 19 January 2012 |
Do owls see better than cats?The short answer: The short answer is, it depends. Most owls see light better at night and have a wider range of vision, but cats see color better, and usually see better in daylight, with some exceptions in specific owl species. Owls see best at long distances, while cats see better at short to mid range distances. In some ways, cats and owls share similar sensory characteristics. For example, they both have appendages that help enhance other senses, and compensate in settings with low vision. |
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Domestic Cats
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Thursday, 19 January 2012 |
Do owls see better than cats?The short answer: The short answer is, it depends. Most owls see light better at night and have a wider range of vision, but cats see color better, and usually see better in daylight, with some exceptions in specific owl species. Owls see best at long distances, while cats see better at short to mid range distances. In some ways, cats and owls share similar sensory characteristics. For example, they both have appendages that help enhance other senses, and compensate in settings with low vision. |
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Desert Habitats
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Saturday, 24 December 2011 |
Desert Location:The Great Victoria Desert is the biggest desert in Australia and consists of many small sandhills, grassland plains, areas with a closely packed surface of pebbles (called desert pavement or gibber plains) and salt lakes. The Great Victoria Desert is over 700 kilometres (430 mi) wide (from west to east) and covers an area of 424,400 square kilometres (163,900 sq mi) from the Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia to the Gawler Ranges in South Australia. The Western Australia Mallee shrub ecoregion lies to the west, the Little Sandy Desert to the northwest, the Gibson Desert and the Central Ranges xeric shrublands to the north, the Tirari and Sturt Stony deserts to the east, while the Nullarbor Plain to the south separates it from the Southern Ocean. |
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Desert Habitats
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Saturday, 24 December 2011 |
Desert Location:The Great Sandy Desert is a desert located in the far northwestern outback of western Australia, straddling the Pilbara and southern Kimberley regions. The Great Sandy Desert is the second largest desert in Australia, after the Great Victoria Desert, and encompasses an area of 284,993 square kilometres (110,036 sq mi). The Gibson Desert lies to the south and the Tanami Desert lies to the East of the Great Sandy Desert. There is a different Great Sandy Desert in Oregon state, USA. |
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Health Aids
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Monday, 22 November 2010 |
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If you already have fleas in the house, (and you almost certainly do if they are to the point you are noticing them on the dogs or you are being bitten), you will need to bug bomb the house as well as treat the dogs, and probably your yard, or they will just get reinfected and the problem will get worse and worse as the fleas continually multiply. One flea can produce over a trillion decendents in her 9-month adult stage of life. |
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amphibian reptile pets
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Monday, 21 December 2009 |
AUTHOR: Bonnie Hope
Lizards can make great pets for those who aren’t interested in pets with fur, fins or feathers. Choosing the right lizard depends on your personality, your commitment and whether you have other pets or children that could potentially be harmed. |
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Bison - Buffalo
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Tuesday, 04 August 2009 |
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When the English first settled in Virginia in the 1600s, the buffalo numbered as many as 60 million from coast to coast, surpassing in size even the vast wildebeest herds of Africa. |
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Cougar News
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
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Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) officers are issuing safety advice while they continue to look for a cougar reported in several west Olympia locations over the past few weeks. |
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Wolf Conservation
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
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BILLINGS, Mont. (July 19) - A federal judge has restored endangered species protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, derailing plans by three states to hold public wolf hunts this fall. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy in Missoula granted a preliminary injunction late Friday restoring the protections for the wolves in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. Molloy will eventually decide whether the injunction should be permanent. |
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Wolf Conservation
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
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A California lab recently developed DNA-sequencing techniques to genetically distinguish gray wolves (Canis lupus) from wolf-dog hybrids or domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris). The genetic make-up of wolves and dogs is so similar that previous tests were unable to distinguish the two. Wolf and dog DNA differs by only two-tenths of one percent (0.2%). |
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Wolf Conservation
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Saturday, 12 July 2008 |
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Based on results of a howling survey on July 8, 2008, in response to reported wolf sightings in Okanogan County, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department think they have verified the presence of a breeding pack of wolves. |
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Wild Mustangs
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Monday, 23 June 2008 |
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Over the past 7 years the BLM has been mandated to remove thousands of wild horses and burros from public lands - from their legal ranges. Areas that the law states should be used primarily for wild horses and burros. There are now more of them in government holding pens than there are in the wild. |
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Dog Info
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008 |
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Here is a list of places where you can get some help paying for emergency vet bills. If you know of others, please let us know about them so we can add them to this resouce.
This information is primarily for individuals with companion animals in a permanent home, but some of them also help rescue organizations for individual animals, or help handicapped people purchase, train, and care for service animals. Perhaps this list of organizations that will help with emergency vet bills may be able to help you in times when the determining factor in saving your pet's life is the ability to pay an unexpected or costly vet bill.
Note: These organizations help only in EMERGENCY situations such as accidental injuries requiring immediate care, or long term health problems requiring surgery or ongoing treatment, such as orthopedic repairs or chemotherapy for animals with cancer. They are not for people who can't or won't provide basic care for their pets.
Most of these organizations also accept donations, and many are tax deductible, so if you are able, these would be worthy causes to donate to, where your donation will go directly to help an animal in need. |
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Wolf Conservation
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Saturday, 24 May 2008 |
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The Idaho Fish and Game Commission Thursday, May 22, adopted the first regulated hunting season on gray wolves in the state's history. Around 400-500 wolves will potentially be killed. |
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Whales
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Saturday, 12 April 2008 |
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Right whales don't have teeth or horns or claws to prevent the other males from mating with the female, so they have developed an interesting way to compete called "sperm competition." |
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Rodents, Other
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
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The American Beaver (Castor canadensis) is a large semi-aquatic rodent native to Canada, much of the United States, parts of northern Mexico, and the most southern province of Argentina, Tierra del Fuego. Common names include North American Beaver, or simply Beaver in North America, as well as its subspecies names, the most common being the Canadian Beaver. The american beaver and the European Beaver are the only two animals in the castor genus. However, the American Beaver has several sub-species. |
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Hamsters
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Wednesday, 26 March 2008 |
Hamsters are mammals that fall into the class of rodents ie same family group as mice, rats. Rodent actually means "to gnaw" in Latin - so you can have a pretty good idea what hamsters are inclined to do. Rodents (hamsters included) all have incisor teeth which grow throughout their lives.
Here are some interesting questions and answers about these furry pocket pals, the hamster. |
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Dog Memorials
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Wednesday, 26 March 2008 |
SUNKA PEJUTA, MY MEDICINE DOGSunka Pejuta means "Medicine Dog" in the Lakota language. Sunka was conceived on the Pow Wow Trail at one pow wow and born in my bed at another. She is now six years old. |
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Wolf Dogs
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Wednesday, 26 March 2008 |
MY WOLF DOG EWOKTAEwokta is 75% gray wolf and 25% german shepherd. He is a F1 (one generation removed from a full wolf ancestor) mid-content wolfdog. |
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Wildlife Facts
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Wednesday, 26 March 2008 |
•Clownfish live in such a rigid social structure in the wild that if one of the dominant breeding adults is removed, the size, status and even sex of the other clownfish change rapidly to return the group to the status quo. If the female of the group dies, the male changes sex and becomes the breeding female, while the largest non-breeder becomes the breeding male. Some other species of fish are known to do the same thing.
• Elephants are the only animals that can't jump, but they can smell water three miles away. |
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