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Roaming Charges on Eagles’ GPS Trackers Bankrupt Russian Researcher Team
Some steppe eagles got into trouble with their researchers for sending text messages that resulted in huge cell phone bills. Bad, bad birds! Researchers at the Russian Raptors Research and Conservation Network were studying the steppe eagles to learn more about their summer migratory patterns. To track the eagles, researchers tagged the birds with GPS monitors...
There’s a Cat Shrine with a Cat Monk in Japan…So Maybe You Should Go Ahead and Book Your Ticket
Are you a cat lover? If so, you know that our fuzzy feline friends have a lot of personality and they like to play by their own rules. Well, in Japan, there’s a shrine where the cats are in charge and us mere humans are just there to admire them…and pet them, if they are...
This Priest Brings Stray Dogs into His Masses so They Can Find Loving Homes
Those are people who talk the talk, and then there are those who walk the walk. And a priest in Brazil named Father João Paulo Araujo Gomes definitely falls into the latter category. Father Gomes heads a parish in the city of Gravatá, and he allows stray dogs to come into his church during mass....
Border Collies Are Helping to Reforest Scorched Chilean Wilderness After Deadly Wildfires
Go ahead and add reforesting burned land to the many things that dogs can do to make our lives better. When wildfires destroyed large swaths of land and 1,500 homes in Chile in 2017, border collies were called upon to help with the reforestation effort. https://www.instagram.com/p/BS9_pi8B9Lh/?utm_source=ig_embed The fires torched roughly 593,000 square miles of land...
This Horse Hates Being Ridden, so He Plays Dead Until Riders Go Away
I might not know a ton about horses, but I never imagined they could be total drama queens. Like this horse, who goes to great, Oscar-worthy lengths to avoid carrying people on his back. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Periódico New Station (@periodico_new_station) on Oct 23, 2019 at 11:08pm...
Before Typhoon Hagibis Struck Japan, the Sky Turned Vivid Purple
On October 11th, the evening before Typhoon Hagibis hit Japan, an unusual sunset painted the sky a vivid shade of purple. The violet sky may have been simply stunning under different circumstances, but for people in the typhoon’s path, it was an omen of the devastation – including the loss of at least 40 lives...