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John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.
Category: Carnivores
A few weeks back, I updated you on the story of Macho B, the male jaguar that was captured in southeastern Arizona and subsequently euthanized due to apparent chronic kidney failure. The Arizona Republic is reporting that Sharon Dial, a...
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Asian small-clawed otter pups @ San Diego Zoo. More here....
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Category: Carnivores
This is Toby, a red panda at Houston Zoo. This article lead to this comment: Don't be fooled. The Red Panda's "cuteness" is simply a reflection of the human tendency to anthropomorphize animals. In reality, the Red Panda is...
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Category: Carnivores
Last week I reported that AZ Game and Fish had recently captured, collared and released a jaguar for the first time. At that time, folks were speculating whether the specimen was “Macho B,” a male that had been seen...
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Category: Carnivores
Zooborns asks us to ponder the question: “What’s cuter than a fennec fox?” As if there can be any reply. More photos over at Zooborns....
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Category: Carnivores
I've written before about efforts to study jaguar (Panthera onca) populations here in the desert southwest and Mexico, most recently to note that the Bush administration had declined to formulate a recovery plan for the species in the Southwest....
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Category: Poetry
The Stoat Walking in the warmest afternoon this year has yielded yet, through slopes of whin that made the shadows luminous, and filled the slow air with its fragrance, we went down a narrow track, stone-littered, under trees which...
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Category: Carnivores
Bornean clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi) ... now with mounted headlights. See here for previous story on the species. (click for larger version / image source)...
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Category: Carnivores
Eno, a four month old American river otter (Lontra canadensis) at the North Carolina Aquarium (source). Click for larger version....
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Category: Monday Mustelid
I've been remiss for a while and those of you who like the Monday Mustelid haven't been getting your fix. So here is a little something to tide you over. Three video full of badgery goodness. The world's most fearless...
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