Category Archives: Animalia
Peppa Pig has missed a vocation
Starved of spicy stories or constipated by covid, the British media wrote about Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s bad hair day. In a speech to business leaders, he lost track of the message and, presumably to preserve poise, he ad-libbed about … Continue reading
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Tagged Animal welfare, Peppa Pig, Yorkshire pig
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Yarns about Mountain Lions
Ask local folk if mountain lions (aka cougars/ pumas/ panthers) still prowl the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia and you’ll likely get a nod or they might bend your ear to tell a tale. But if you visit the WV … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, Memoir
Tagged Division of Natural Resources, mountain lion, Pocahontas County, West Virginia
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Living or Livid with Nature?
We weren’t always doggedly efficient extirpators—of insects for eating crops and stinging, of moles for spoiling perfect lawns, of predators for preying on livestock, and so on and on … Not so long ago, humans tolerated annoying wildlife with a … Continue reading
Alpha in a Wolf Pack is a Fallacy
Studies of wild wolves reveal family and without pecking order Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, nature, Wildlife conservation
Tagged Ellesmere Island, Lamar Valley, operant conditioning, Wolves, Yellowstone National Park
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Virginia is for Oyster Lovers
“Why then the world’s mine oyster, which I with sword will open.” Thus, Shakespeare gave us a new idiom in the Merry Wives of Windsor repeated ever since, and Oscar Wilde wielded it with customary wit: “The world was my … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, Environment, nature
Tagged Chesapeake Bay, Oscar Wilde, oyster, Shakespeare, VIMS, York River
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