Nature & Wildlife
Eyes are our primary sensory organs, allowing us to perceive about 80% of incoming information, to navigate safely and to perform daily tasks like reading and work, while also acting as vital indicators for our overall physical health. They’re also central to our nonverbal communication.
Nature & Wildlife
Today, in what seems to be our never-ending search for happiness, we often describe our longings as the quest for “quality of life.” That idea and the coinage of that phrase, though, actually date back to the 1960s and 1970s, when they were often used in debates about social crises and social progress.
Nature & Wildlife
How we humans perceive time is a fascinating and intriguing topic. We know that we can see colors, hear sounds, smell odors, taste flavors and feel textures. Some aspects of the world, then, can be perceived through one of our five, basic senses.
Nature & Wildlife
Greyhounds have been a part of my life for more than two decades. In fact, in 2019, when my husband and I got the call inviting us to visit the local kennel to adopt what would be our 10th greyhound over a span of 26 years, we found our new “fur baby” within 30 minutes.
Nature & Wildlife
“Finding your voice.” We hear that phrase a lot, lately. It means that you know who you are at your core, and you express it. Voices are extremely important for humans.
Conservation
As we begin to close out the days of 2021, it’s only natural to take a look back at the year that’s about to end and dream of what we’d like to see change and what we hope will happen in 2022.
Nature & Wildlife
Anyone who has ever lived with dogs knows that they can count. Try to short your best friend on daily treats, and you’ll quickly find out that he or she is keeping track. We now know that a wide variety of other animals can count, too.
Canada & the North
A polar vortex over the Midwestern states has kept me cold and inside for most of this month. I’ve had to stop my daily walks with my dog, because her paws get too cold.
Travel Tales
You can’t help but have a big adventure in the amazing Yosemite National Park. But doing small things here sometimes makes for the most lasting impressions.
Conservation
For thousands of years, dogs have been our best friends, our sources of comfort and happiness, and even our aids in helping to save threatened species. But now, they’re finding new employment opportunities in another sector of meaningful work.
U.S. National Parks
Encounters between people and wildlife in our national parks can sometimes go wrong. That’s why the National Park Service is enlisting some very special rangers. Gracie is just one of this new “breed” of park employees. She works at Montana’s Glacier National Park, is only two years old and walks on four legs.
News & More
While dogs have been working at airports around the country for some time as narcotics officers and runway-geese police, some animals are now finding gainful employment in terminals in, well, more “fluffy” roles. But the seemingly softer nature of their careers doesn’t mean their positions are any less consequential.
