We’re all about zoo animal escapades, like our post about Snowbank, the peacock who escaped a Boston zoo. Here’s another almost unbelievable one, given the notorious clumsiness of pandas. That they’re even considered a bear is laughable. Somehow, a remarkably athletic panda escaped his enclosure at a zoo in Copenhagen, becoming our favorite news story …
You’re familiar with Balto’s story; he was the Alaskan sled dog who raced through storms and danger to bring essential medicine to the small town of Nome. He was a sled dog doing the job he was bred for, but he’s still considered a furry hero. There’s a statue of him in Central Park. You …
There are so many reasons not to go into the ocean. Sharks, pollution, islands of plastic, whales pee in it; the list goes on and on. Granted, I’m an indoor kid, but you have to admit ever since Jaws came out, the ocean has felt less like summer fun, and more like a low-level menacing …
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There are few things more obtrusive than people who call instead of text. But people who drop by unannounced are for sure higher on the list. And also on a separate list of the worst things you can do to another person. So I’m impressed by Susan Geshel, who went to the door when a …
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I’m right there with you if you get to the end of this story and realize there’s not much difference between you and a 250-pound juvenile black bear. We’ve done a few posts on how the quarantine and shut-down of cities worldwide have the delightful side effect of more animal sightings. Granted, some of those …
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As the world shut down, it was hard not to get a little glass-half-full about the situation. Sure, we’re all stuck inside our homes, but given the havoc humans wreck on the planet on the daily, you’d think the planet would be benefit now that we’re grounded. Environmentalists were quick to warn that any benefit …
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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