Hitchhiking Animals

About how wild animals and humans affect one another--reported with touch of whimsy. Animals under the hood of your car... flaming squirrels... read on....

Thursday, December 15, 2016

How to deal with pesky woodpeckers

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. Ever hear a tap-tapping on your house, while you are having breakfast or working at your desk? It's hard to tell where it's comi...

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Pollinators in the news

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. Pollinators and flowers are one of the best examples of interdependence. They show why preserving biodiversity is important. Fl...

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Do tigers eat people?

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. Definitely, they do. Generally, it's thought that only tigers that can't catch their ordinary prey turn to eating people. An i...

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Rat bites--how dangerous are they?

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. Recently I was reading Katherine Boo's nonfiction book-- Behind the Beautiful Forevers --about life in the slums of India. It's ...

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Dog survives 110-mile ride under the hood of a pickup truck

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. This blog started when my neighbor asserted that rats sometimes lived in cars. I didn't believe him. I thought, "Maybe YOUR ca...

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Mice on airliners

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. I've seen a number of reports about rats on airliners, usually foreign airlines (Pakistan was one). But mice are almost anywhere, so...

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Can you name these wetland animals?

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. Take the skull challenge... Can you name the wetland animal that matches each skull? The relative sizes are shown. The larges...

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