Category: Inappropriate animal behavior
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Tag the Destroyer has a new bad habit. He goes to the side yard and barks. Bark bark bark bark. Pause. Bark bark bark bark. Pause. Bark bark bark bark. It's a strange pattern. He ignores our cries of rage and despair. Tag's getting deaf. He no longer barks at the loathsome package delivery trucks,…
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Last week’s post was of swans, mayhem, and the devotion of a husband and father. Afterward my attention was drawn to a recent incident in Britain, in which authorities felt compelled to relocate a family of swans. The father of the family, Hissing Sid, had maintained a desirable territory on the River Chelmer, Essex, for…
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Five representatives were ranting and frothing in Congress the other day about how the economic recovery bill included a $30 million earmark for San Francisco mice. Representative Jackie Speier, who represents San Francisco and San Mateo counties, was surprised. She looked into it and wrote something on her findings for the San Francisco Chronicle, a…
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Mike Wood is a scientist who studies salmon. He has a little remote-control submarine for observing salmon underwater, a self-propelled fish cam about the size of a slightly flattened washing machine. It was poking around the sea floor west of Vancouver Island in 2005 when it was suddenly attacked by a giant octopus. In the…
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