It’ll be very awkward if you call somebody’s baby by the wrong name. Animals, fortunately, won’t mind. In fact, it’s perfectly acceptable to call a critter’s offspring simple a “baby something.” Still, though, if we call our pets’ spawn puppies and kittens, maybe we should extend the same courtesy to all animals. To help you …
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Did you know the teeny tiny hummingbird has 100 different species and that they don’t eat with their long beak but rather lap up sweet liquids like a cat and milk? Here are more teeny tiny hummingbirds. There is a lot of variability with the color and look of the iridescent parts of hummingbirds. The …
It’s not the time when summer is over and fall is here but it’s about that time. Which of these activities will you get into before the end of the summer? Go see small town America Make tomato recipes-because they’re in season and they taste great right now! You could use them for canning as …
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Bears are complex creatures. Depending on the individual bear, the time of day, and the position of the stars, they can go from raging monsters to silly furballs of the forest. Over the years, we at Oddee have encountered a lot of bear-related stories. Sadly, not all of them have enough substance for a dedicated …
Some parents might tell children that a big bad wolf will come and eat them if they don’t behave. In northern India, they wouldn’t have to bother. They could just point at the wolf and go: “See that?” The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has a serious problem with the biggest and baddest kind of …
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Imagine you’re facing a difficult problem. How would you go about solving it most efficiently? The mature and sophisticated way would be to carefully analyze its root causes and address them with intricately planned measures. Or you could just bomb it until everything in a 100-mile radius around the problem is a lifeless wasteland. Look, …
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What do you know about dolphins? Most people think they’re cute and sweet but these facts will tell you differently! Dolphins may try groping humans and in recorded cases they have touched humans inappropriately. Dolphins hunt for food and for “fun.” They hunt in pairs usually and find new ways to hunt their prey. They …
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Every year, the insurance company Nationwide hands out the Hambone Award. This most distinguished of awards acknowledges the most harebrained pet insurance claims of the year. This year marks the 16th time the Hambone Award has been handed out to a misbehaving or unfortunate pet. Nationwide just announced the results, with the winner being a …
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When you see a lot of animals in one spot, it’s easiest to say you just saw a “bunch of cows” or something. If you want to be more specific, you might say you spotted a “flock of seagulls.” But when you really get down into the nitty gritty, many groups of animals have specific …
In nature, things are often not as they seem. A gluttonous bald eagle in Missouri recently demonstrated that by causing animal conservationists unnecessary worry. The bird was spotted sitting around without doing anything, which isn’t something they usually do. Believing the eagle was injured, they captured it without much resistance. Yup, that sure sounds like …
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