How To Help A Hurt Or Abandoned Baby Animal
KEY POINTS Determine if the bird is injured or abandoned. Sometimes baby animals appear to be abandoned, but the parents are actually nearby, out of eyesight. Do not attempt to keep a wild animal of any species as a pet, or attempt to do rehab on your own. Depending...
Racing Extinction: An inspiring and eye opening film
Not too long after we had placed second at a startup event for CritterFacts, we sat down to watch a documentary called Racing Extinction. At this stage, we were still figuring out what CritterFacts was going to mean for us and were even evaluating if it made sense to...
This deaf and blind dog will warm your heart
Meet the sweet and loving dog Plum. Plum was born both deaf and blind which as anyone could imagine is very challenging for any animal. Much less a potential owner. While working at an animal hospital Aiden, Plum's owner, spotted plum with one of his coworkers that...
Leech
Leeches can ingest amounts of blood five times bigger than their own weight allowing them to go up to a year between meals!
Wildlife corridors are key to unlocking new habitats
In 2007 as a, newly elected Mayor, my community was working on a Comprehensive Plan. As it sounds, a comprehensive plan covers everything in a community. One of the key items I focused on was our parks, trails and natural areas. I have always viewed these as more than...
10 Bizarre Wildlife Facts You Need To Know
1. Asian Giant HornetEver seen the movie 300? Well the Asian Giant Hornet must have impaled the soldiers of Sparta and morphed with their DNA, or perhaps these hornets are reincarnated Spartans. Whatever the case they love to wreak havoc on poor honey bees. And their...
Meat-eating ducks can be found on this remote island
A meat-eating duck. It sounds like something out of a bizarre horror movie – or from the tall tales of an 18th-century explorer. But that is exactly what Captain James Cook’s expedition found in 1775 when its members set foot on the remote subantarctic island of South...
New study outlines how to repair the worlds oceans
The future for the world’s oceans often looks grim. Fisheries are set to collapse by 2048, according to one study, and 8 million tons of plastic pollute the ocean every year, causing considerable damage to delicate marine ecosystems. Yet a new study in Nature offers...
THE EXOTIC FELINE RESCUE CENTER
On a cold a rainy day we decided to visit one of the largest big cat sanctuaries in the United States: The Exotic Feline Rescue Center (EFRC) near Bloomington, Indiana. The EFRC is a 502c-3 nonprofit that is home to over 200 exotic cats including lions, bobcats,...
Has 2020 become the lost year?
2020 has become the lost year—the time when we are all being held captive to Covid19. We have the lost year for housing, hi-tech, employment, movies, sports, education, and pretty much everything. An article by Neil Mackay got me thinking about this along with my...
