A Boston peacock named Snowbank broke quarantine last week to go find a mate. Anyone single and sheltered in place can identify with the bird’s screw this-attitude, as he wandered away from the Franklin Park Zoo. He didn’t make it far, spotted by a suspicious citizen in the Roxbury neighborhood. That citizen approached officers on …
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The Kentucky Derby, America’s longest continuously running sports event, got postponed because of the pandemic. Like all other sporting events this year. Because of COVID-19 and social distancing, packing racing fans into Churchill Downs is just too dangerous. It’s an exceptional disruption to the lengthy history of the Triple Crown kickoff; the very first Derby …
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Cabin fever is taking on a new meaning across the world. I’ve watched my friends go from tracking days in quarantine on Instagram by posting their #OOTD to weeks of silence. America is weary. What was pitched as a two-week shutdown to flatten the curve of new cases will last months longer. Some have taken …
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Do you remember pizza rat from New York? There’s a YouTube video of a rat dragging a slice of pizza down the stairs to a subway platform. The world was a simpler place back in 2015, and as a nation we celebrated how pizza rat was just like us. Who has time to sit …
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The upside of spending so much more time indoors is you’ve got more time to look at cool dogs on the Internet. The labradoodle (Labrador and poodle) was the first “designer breed” that boasted widespread popular appeal. They were first created in the middle of the 20th century. They didn’t gain popularity until the early …
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While the photos of dolphins in Venice were a (delightful) hoax, nature is creeping back into urban areas as people shelter-in-place. Seeing a herd of deer wandering city streets would be a pleasant distraction from not touching your face and washing your hands. But it doesn’t take a worldwide pandemic to cause friction between humans …
If you haven’t found a quarantine buddy yet, it’s too late. You can’t make new friends without exposing yourself to the novel coronavirus. If you already have a quarantine buddy, you may be at the point where you’re wondering how it’s possible to spend so much time with a person without turning just a little …
Thanks to Darwin and the Galapagos Islands, we know that environment and likelihood of reproduction determine most everything about an animal’s appearance. But sometimes, a genetic anomaly doesn’t condemn an animal to death who strays too far from the species’ norm. And sometimes, these genetic variations manifest as unique coloration that stands out from the …
When you think about deadly animals in the world, images of giant sharks leaping into the air with mouths filled with rows of teeth may come to mind. However, sharks don’t even rank in the top ten. I’d argue these deadly animals are even more terrifying since four of them are unseen. They’re also very …
Standing on public transportation at 7:30am trying to get a coffee stain out of your shirt and unable to find the source of a weird smell, you might feel you have the worst commute in the world. But animals make insane trips all over the globe just to mate, give birth, or find food. They …