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Have you ever wondered why there are so many squirrels in your yard? Milena Shattuck and Scott Williams, doctoral candidates in anthropology, have found that tree-dwelling mammals live longer than those who live on the ground. Humans are an exception, but tree-dwelling ancestors may explain that. View the article, “Tree-dwelling mammals climb to the heights [...]
The Texas desert tortoise is a pretty cool animal. Its range extends from South-Central Texas in the United States southward into the Mexico. According to “The Nature Report: Tortoise Awakening“, an article in ValleyCentral.com, desert tortoises are well adapted to the dry brush country, and they can go very long periods of time without drinking, [...]
This video shows a large bull moose rescued from frozen Loon Lake in Spokane Washington. I’m happy to see they were able free such a large animal from the ice. Have you ever wondered what you would do if you were in this situation? We are lucky to have people like firefighters and police officers [...]
My aunt, a retired elementary school teacher, sent me this cute video of two baby moose with their mother playing in a sprinkler in Anchorage, Alaska. I hope it adds some humor to your day.
I read the article, “Pentagon Making Room for Wildlife at Military Bases“, today in The New York Times. The article points out that as residential development encroaches upon military bases, the Pentagon finds itself in the precarious position of managing habitat and preserving wildlife. “The military has a tremendous interest in keeping candidate species off the [...]
A groundhog bursts into song about hibernation, then a chipmunk sings about semi-hibernation, followed by a duet with a woodpecker . . . this is one of the songs from our upcoming film First Snow in the Woods: The Movie, based on the best-selling children’s book First Snow in the Woods by Carl R. Sams II and [...]
Filmed over the course of two fall seasons in Michigan, this is the first sneak peek of our new children’s movie, First Snow in the Woods: The Movie, based on the children’s book First Snow in the Woods by Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stoick. The movie is directed by the sister/brother team of Laura [...]
Getting kids outside can be very beneficial to their health and fun too! In this video, National Wildlife Federation Naturalist David Mizejewski shares some backyard critters with the Today show and gives some reasons why you should be out there too! Check out the sensational stick insects and eastern screech owl. Our children’s books and [...]
Thousands of sea turtles, chilled into catatonic states, floated helplessly throughout shore waters, inland waterways and shallow brackish waters from the Panhandle all the way down to the Keys last month, according to the article “Sea Turtles Saved from Florida Frost” in The New York Times. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” said David Godfrey, [...]
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