Pelicans and flying devil rays

Stolen from Pai on Facebook: Source.

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Was the Hare Indian dog a domesticated coyote?

Scottish naval surgeon and naturalist Sir John Richardson was the first document a peculiar hunting dog among the Slavey or Hare people of Northern Canada. This particular dog was much smaller than the typical qimmiq or “Eskimo dog” that was found throughout the region and was also often used to hunt. It was also quite [...]

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William Stratton and the brindle retriever

This portrait by Edmund Havell was painted around the year 1840. It is called “William Stratton, Head Keeper to Sir John Cope of Bramshill Park, Hampshire.” The original copy no longer exists. For some reason, it was displayed at the British Embassy in Tripoli. Earlier this year, when Libya was in throes of a bitter [...]

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Black serval

It might give me nightmares.

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Caracal vs. Hyenas

Caracal catches stork– in the air.  Then the hyenas show up Source.

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Charlie, Cammie, and Rhodie

Asleep on the couch in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Charlie the English shepherd belongs to my cousin Laura Atkinson in Georgia. He’s a good dog. And the JRT pups are, too– when they are asleep.

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A Newfoundland-type travois dog

This is a Lakota woman and her travois dog. This photo was taken on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. I don’t know the date on which this was taken, but her dog is not a traditional travois dog. It appears to be heavily derived from the Newfoundland/St. John’s water dog type. These dogs [...]

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The alco and “the carrier dog of the Indians”

Believe it or not, but this image is of two domestic dogs. “WTF?” you say. Yep. This image comes  from The Natural History of Dogs (1840) by Charles Hamilton Smith and William Jardine. On the left is an alco. If one reads the description of the alco, it is a small dog of Meso-America, probably something [...]

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Did Cheetah die at the age of 80?

A few days ago, I received this news in my inbox:  The chimp who played “Cheetah” in the Tarzan movies died on Christmas Eve at the age of 80. I didn’t cover it for one really big reason. I’ve never heard of chimp making it to 80. I’ve heard of them living into their 70′s. [...]

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Identify the species

It took me a while to figure this one out. It’s not what you think. The Answer.

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