Accidental Domestication

One of the hazards of breeding wild animals in captivity is that the forces of natural selection no longer act upon them. Specimens that thrive well enough of captivity are very often fundamentally quite different from those that would thrive in the wild. Those individuals who thrive well enough to reproduce may pass on traits [...]

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Setters

My assessment of this piece by George Horlor is the red dog and black and tan dog represent are most likely Gordon setters. The other dog is a prototype of what became the English setter. These dogs are more heavily-built setters than we typically imagine them today, even when we consider that Gordon setters are [...]

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Bigfoot reunion

Source. In case you didn’t know, this clip is what that video is lampooning. And if you weren’t already aware of it, here is the famous Patterson film (what should be called “the Buxom Planet of the Apes Costume Film”) that is being referenced: Source.

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The Realm of the Maned Wolf

Source. All South American dogs are derived from North American ancestors. Although North America, Eurasia, and Africa have a certain level of diversity among their canine species, none matches South America for the diversity of wild dog species. At one time, North America surely once had a great diversity of these animals, but they were [...]

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Creatures of the Swamp

Source. This is one of those things that teaches you while you learn.

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A goodbye

After a week of productive and insightful blogging, my co-blogger has decided that blogging on this established blog just is not for her. Liz hopes to return to blogging at some point, but at this point in her life, she really does not feel she can do the kind of work she wants on this [...]

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More on the North Carolina Bigfoot

Source. This guy is something.

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It’s Friday afternoon

Remember when I said there would be a chat room tonight. “Something suddenly came up.” Bonus points if you know the reference.

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Quotes from the Grizzly Man

I nearly died this morning  after reading quotes from the Grizzly Man film. Here they are in all their glory. My favorite didn’t make the list. “Melissa is eating her babies!” The “gift” from Ms. Chocolate did make it, though.

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Willie is pissed

Willie is pissed at anyone who rough-talks or high-pitches his daddy.

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