Best cure for skunk spray ever
It’s spring. A time when pets and skunks sometimes mingle. In my experience it tends to happen late at night, just before bed, and usually when you have an important meeting scheduled the next morning.
Sy Montgomery: How to be a good creature
From hairy-nosed wombats to gorillas to gregarious pigs, nature writer Sy Montgomery says animals have taught her how to be a good creature.
Hen Zen: what the chickens have to teach us
Life lessons from a chicken? Watch this interview with Terry Hill and her hen Mrs. Grey and you may discover that chickens can be more sensible than some of your friends.
A vaccine to save devils?
Finally, there might be a breakthrough in the effort to save Tasmanian devils. The beautiful and much maligned marsupials have been dying of a strange and contagious cancer—called devil facial tumor disease…
Tell us what you think is happening in this 19-second bird video
I had seen two mourning doves on my deck and several times, they seemed to “cuddle up,” with one placing a wing over the other. I did manage to get a 19-second video of the behavior. I’m no birder, but…
Go ahead and argue, it’s natural
Part of cooperation is conflict. It’s like the law of gravity. And once you know it, you can relax a little bit about the inevitable friction in working with or even just interacting with the people around you.
Flying turtles: from tank to tarmac
By Vicki Croke and Christen Goguen–The airlift of three rescued loggerhead turtles has been something of a nail biter. And the looming ice storm barreling up the East Coast, threatening to derail today’s departure, is just the latest peril for Biscuits, the oldest and largest of the evacuees.
Modern dog science and a sentimental sniff
Years ago, returning from a hike with my dog Sage, she walked up to a rake my neighbor Mike had dropped off in the yard while we were gone. She sniffed the handle where his hands had held it, and began to wag her tail…
Napoleon got it right about dogs
“In the deep silence of a beautiful moonlit night, a dog, leaping suddenly from beneath the clothes of his dead master rushed upon us and then immediately returned to his hiding-place, howling piteously. He alternately licked his master’s hand, and again flew at us, as if at once soliciting aid and seeking revenge…
Tree kangaroo orphanage: Serious work, seriously adorable video.
We first learned about Margit Cianelli by eavesdropping on a Facebook conversation between two tree kangaroo experts: Nature writer Sy Montgomery, and the world’s leading expert on these animals, Lisa Dabek.