Today’s otter comes from Local Life and Little Histories, where the blogger wrote and audioblogged about a visit to the Chestnut Centre Otter & Owl Wildlife Park in the Derbyshire Peak District. This family sanctuary houses four different species of… Read More ›
environment
What a tail
This is just one shot of a snow leopard captured by a camera trap in the Himalayas by photographer Steve Winter. There’s a gallery of his shots up at National Geographic. The length of the tail helps the big cats… Read More ›
Otterday! And Open Thread.
See staff at SeaWorld San Diego hand rearing an orphan sea otter pup – feeding, grooming, and having a swim. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in… Read More ›
Otterday! And Open Thread.
Julie Zickefoose was thrilled to spot giant Amazon otters in the wild in Guyana. These otters only survive in numbers – and not large numbers, at around 5000 individuals – in Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname, in a fragile rainforest… Read More ›
Happy Dance: the planet has 2,000 more orangutans than we thought
Discovered in a remote area of Borneo that is, fortunately for them, ao rocky and mountainous that it is totally unsuited for timber plantations. And it’s “up to” 2,000 more, extrapolated from the discovery of more than 200 nests in the region. But how wonderful, eh?
Otterday! And open thread.
Nyac, survivor of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and co-star of the Otters Holding Hands video, died late last year. She developed chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, a cancer not previously known in sea otters, but associated with petroleum contact in other… Read More ›
Otterday! And open thread.
Today’s North American river otters were spied among the ice on the Charles River in Needham, Massachusetts. Boston.com continues: The Charles River Watershed Association hailed the documented presence of otters so close to Boston as a mark of important progress…. Read More ›
G’day to the quake zone
There’s just been an earthquake in Melbourne. Twitter has exploded; Google News is yet silent. Nothing on USGS yet; and the Aussie Seismology Research Centre is inaccessible. (Broken, or quake-dotted?) I hope our Melburnian Hoydens are all ok. I blame… Read More ›
Ebooks, pleasure reading, and the planet
Naomi Alderman writes: “A novel idea: curl up in bed with a virtual book” Recently I’ve been intrigued by the idea that ebook readers could be a greener way to spread the printed word. And since I started using one… Read More ›
I never thought I’d say this
but in some ways we Aussies are fortunate in our public opiners, despite the regularly boggling bloviations of Bolt, Blair, Devine, Albrechtsen et al: at least
Hoyden About Town 