Showing 86 posts from September 2009
Well, it took all day, but someone finally got it.
It is a clouded leopard skull.
What’s a clouded leopard?
It’s probably the coolest big cat in the world.
And yes, it’s a big cat. It’s not physically big, of course, but it is genetically connected to the pantherine big cats. The cougar (puma/mountain lion/catamount) is actually larger than [...]
A few days ago, I happened to mention that polar bears were actually somewhat hard to classify. They do represent a specific niche in a specific ecosystem, but they are very closely related to brown bears (European brown bears, grizzlies, and Kodiak bears are subspecies of the brown bear [Ursus arctos]). Indeed, there are populations [...]
What follows is political. Ignore if you disagree.
Source.
Look at those canines!
Newfoundlands were used for retrieving shot birds. Yes, this includes the large black and white dog that eventually became the modern Newfoundland and FCI Landseer breeds.
This painting is by Edmund Bristow.
So yes, Newfoundlands were used as retrievers in both the United States and Europe.
One of the problems in determining what dogs were in the early [...]
