It’s a Dog Life - Common Jobs for Dogs

Have you ever thought of signing your dog up to volunteer for a job? Dogs are not only great pets, they also help us make work a bit easier. Letting them volunteer is a great way for them to get enough exercise and avoid developing degenerative myelopathy. Many organizations and industries need dogs to when completing tasks and workloads.  You might be interested in helping out or you could also be working in a field where your dog can serve together with you.Below are common jobs for dogs and how your four legged friend can help. Police/military dogsMost police and military tasks are gi

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Wooly Bear Caterpillar

Have you seen those large spiny and hairy caterpillars abundantly crawling on sidewalks, pathways, bicycle paths and roadways during summer? These are Wooly bear caterpillars, simply called the Wooly Bears. They belong to a large group of moths called tiger moths and usually begin existence during spring as a plant-eating caterpillar. The moth is known to have two different names depending on its two main stages of life.  The adult is named Isabella Tiger Moth and the larva is called the Banded Wooly Worm or in most cases, the Banded Wooly Bear. The larva of the Banded Wooly Bear usually

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Silky Anteater

Among the living anteaters that are existent today, the Silky Anteater is the smallest one there is of its kind.  Also known as pygmy anteater (Cyclopes didactylus), the Silky anteater is a species of anteater found in South America as well as in Central America. The Silky Anteater is different from the species where it belongs because it has rather a proportionately shorter face and larger cranium compared to the others. Most adult anteaters are quite long having a length measurement that ranges from 360-450 millimeters, approximately 14 to 18 inches long. They have thick and quite dens

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The Tasmanian tiger

Among Tasmanian’s native animals, it seems to be that the least understood is theThylacine (ThylacinusCynosephalus). Also known as the Tasmanian tiger because of its striped back, it is native to Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea.  It has been believed that Tasmanian tigers had been already extinct in the 20th century.Due to its queer look and appearance, one which looks like a large and long dog with a big head coupled withthe body having short soft brown fur with a combination of dark brown-black stripes that extended from the base of the tail to almost the shoulders. It has a heavy s

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Names of Some Endangered Birds in America

It is a fact that the United States used to be the home and habitat of such a bounty and overflow of avian populace with colorful and eye-catching birds that travel its wonderful skies.  Due to many years of hunting, human encroachment and more land development plus numerous migration of people, the birds in the United States have slowly disappeared, resulting to extinction of some unique birds and most of all, threatened the status of many birds.Just recently, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has an existing record to date, that as many as 91 species are extremely threatened and on th

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Lipizzan Horses

As a horse breed, the Lipizzan Horse (also known as the Lipizzaner) has long been linked with the Spanish Riding School of Vienna in Austria, one of the world’s longest forerunners of “high school” movements and haute ecole when talking about horse movements, actions, mannerisms and activities.The 1963 Walt Disney released feature entitled Miracle of the White Stallions is one of the few movies to have featured the Lipizzan, with the movie telling the story of how the Spanish Riding School of Vienna had evacuated their horses during the course of World War II.The Lipizzan horse breed’s origin

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Dogs and Birds – Can They get Along?

The problem with having a family that loves to take care of pets is that you might have one or more type of pets in your home. A common combination would be dogs and cats, but in some households, they keep both dogs and birds under the same roof. Is it safe to have birds and dogs in the house at the same time? Well if you train them properly then yes. This might sound like an unlikely combination but birds and dogs can get along very well as house pets.Below are a few tips on taking care of dogs and bird together. Keep their sleeping areas separatedYou don’t want to wake up in the middle of t

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The Hairy Yeti Crab

Discovered early 2005 somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, this unique, quite large- sized decapod grows to a maximum of 15 centimeter long and is distinguished from the rest of the crabs because of its prominent silky blond hair which largely resembles to fur all covering its legs including the claws.Formerly known as the Kiwa Hirsuta, this crustacean was first found along the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge, 1,500 kilometers south of Easter Island at a depth of 2,200 meters, approximately 7,200 feet. Then shortly after, a second species, Kiwa puravida was discovered in 2006.Dubbed as the “yeti crab” or

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The Dumbo Octopus

Have you ever seen an octopus with two ears? Although not functioning as the hearing sense, the Dumbo Octopus has ear-like fins virtually protruding from the top of their head-like bodies. Obviously, the extra-large and queer looking ears of the Disney elephant character, Dumbo have been likened to this unique octopus that poses the exact resemblance, hence the name.This wonderful yet weird looking sea creature thrives in the bottom of the ocean and in depths up to 7,000 meters below sea level, approximately 23,000 feet the deepest so far for any known octopus to reach, identifying them as on

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Pygmy Marmoset

As one of the world’s smallest primates, the Pygmy Marmoset is known to weigh somewhere between 120 to 140 grams, measuring between 5.5 to 6.3 inches in length.Found in the rainforests of South America, mostly in river edge forest areas, Pygmy Marmosets are known to be found in the southeastern portions of Colombia, eastern areas of Ecuador, eastern portions of Peru, northern areas of Bolivia and in western Brazil.A quadruped, the species remains to be a member of the New World monkey order and is quite well documented, a status which hails from its rather unique small size. Known to have a d

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The Blobfish

One look at the rarely seen Blobfish would readily explain why the deep sea fish species is named as such, with the fish species bearing a blob-like form that makes it look like a creature from out of this world.Found in the deep waters surrounding Tasmania and Australia, the Blobfish is one of the world’s deep sea fishes, currently at risk of extinction due to bottom trawling or deep sea fishing activities.Known to be found in deep sea depths of up to 2,000 to 3,9000 feet, the most definitive characteristic of the Blobfish is in its gelatinous mass, one that bears a slightly less than water

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The Alpaca

Though they do bear certain similarities with llamas, Alpacas are different in these sense that they are significantly smaller in shape and size, with Alpacas not kept as “beasts of burden”.Typically found in domesticated enclosures and habitats in South America, Alpacas are more favored for their “fiber source” purposes, with Alpaca fibers generally used in the making of various fabrics and textiles, just as with wool.With the average Alpaca weighing somewhere between 48 to 84 kilograms, the Peruvian Alpaca is quite famous in the textile industry, with the general Alpaca fiber category known

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The Aye-aye

Known for being the world’s largest nocturnal primate, the Aye-aye is one of the more interesting of lemurs found in Madagascar, with its way of finding food being most its most notable trait.As a lemur, the Aye-aye’s features mirror the base physical characteristics which have defined lemurs as a whole, but it is unique with a thin middle finger that simply stand out from its hand, along with a set of rodent like front teeth.With the use of its rodent like front teeth, the Aye-aye finds grubs by gnawing holes on wood, then uses its long and thin middle finger to pick and pull the grub out. T

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