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Greece's Riot Dog (www.thisblogrules.com)There has been lots of riots and protests from both anarchists and workers in Athens, Greece specially the past few years. One interesting thing is that there is one dog that is spotted at these riots from 2008 till today
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snopes.com: Lucky Coyote (www.snopes.com)Eight hours, two fuel stops, and 600 miles later they found the wild animal embedded in their front fender - and very much alive.
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Bees under galss (slightlywarped.com)In an interesting experiment, this beekeeper decided to see what would happen if he put a glass jar over one of the holes in a beehive.
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Deepest Part of the Ocean | frozenly.com (frozenly.com)The Mariana Trench is located in the Pacific Ocean, just east of the 14 Mariana Islands (11″21′ North latitude and 142″ 12′ East longitude ) near Japan.
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5.Holy Moose! (www.nofofoto.com)
My friend took this photo of a moose north of Elliot Lake Ontario… while it doesn’t look real due to its size.. I am told it is.. Holy crap!
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The beautiful nature » Swimming with whales (delightnature.com)Underwater Photographs
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Majority in favour of Sudbury dog park (www.thesudburystar.com)As of early Sunday afternoon, a narrow majority of readers (275 or 48%), who voted on the newspaper's website, were in favour of a dog park being created.
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Red-winged blackbird hanging around (www.nugget.ca)This red-winged blackbird, besides the availability of food, has the other key requirement for surviving the winter months, the adjacent cedar trees where the bird roosts. The cedars provide a sheltered area to protect the individual from both the wind and predators. The birds are able to survive the cold. Protection from the wind is much more important.
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Moscow's Stray Dogs Evolving Greater Intelligence, Including a Mastery of the Subway | Popular Science (www.popsci.com)For every 300 Muscovites, there's a stray dog wandering the streets of Russia's capital. And according to Andrei Poyarkov, a researcher at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, the fierce pressure of urban living has driven the dogs to evolve wolf-like traits, increased intelligence, and even the ability to navigate the subway.
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Espanola game and fish club featured in magazine (www.thesudburystar.com)the Espanola Game and Fish Protective Association organized its first ever winter children's fishing derby just two years ago, in 2008. It was so successful, it had over 400 children and their families take part.
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North Bay dog park group back on track (www.thesudburystar.com)A group of dog owners are hoping to put their best paw forward this year and regain some ground in their efforts to bring an off-leash dog park to North Bay.The group, formerly known as A Walk in the Park, changed their name to the Nipissing District Dog Owners Association last year and held their annual general meeting Sunday afternoon.
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Wild animal rehabilitation centre moving (www.thesudburystar.com)Wild at Heart ... moving to a new wildlife refuge centre:Wild at Heart rehabilitates orphaned, injured, and sick wild animals so they may be released back into the wild. We treat approximately 500 wild animals per year and are expanding into our new 5,000 square foot education and care centre to accommodate many more.
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One biologist’s quest (thechronicleherald.ca)Biologist Soren Bondrup-Nielsen first delighted readers with his memoir of a winter spent in the Temagami wilderness, Winter on Diamond. With his latest book, he takes us into his search for proof that a small, shy species of owl lives and nests in northern Ontario.
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Abandoned moose results in $2,500 fine, lost licence (www.northernlife.ca)A Sturgeon Falls man has been convicted of illegally killing and then abandoning a bull moose, netting himself a $2,500 fine and licence suspension.
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Animal clinic puts injured loon down (www.thesudburystar.com)The bird was rescued from Whitewater Lake by Alex Stevenson, of Chelmsford, and his friend."These two men, they went out and got the loon. It was frozen to the ice in a bay," said Sarah Wendorf, education program developer/co-ordinator for the Wild at Heart Wildlife Refuge Centre in Lively.
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Chicago river poisoned to block feared Asian carp (ca.news.yahoo.com)Some 200,000 pounds (90 tons) of dead fish are expected to be collected, weighed, inventoried, and dumped in a landfill.
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17.Your Weather: Olympic Cow - The Weather Network (www.theweathernetwork.com)
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Old fish makes new Great Lakes comeback | Great Lakes Echo (greatlakesecho.org)Lake sturgeon, one of the oldest surviving species from prehistoric times, is making a small comeback in the Great Lakes region.
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Enforcement blitz leads to 200 charges and animal seizures (www.baytoday.ca)From October 11 to 25, 2009, conservation officers checked over 2,800 hunters and uncovered 409 violations leading to 217 charges and 192 warnings.
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Australia 'disappointed' at Japan whaling mission (ca.news.yahoo.com)ustralia said it was "deeply disappointed" after a fleet of Japanese whaling ships set out to kill hundreds of the giant ocean mammals on their annual hunt.
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Lithuanian horse club was CIA 'black site': (ca.news.yahoo.com)The CIA is alleged to have constructed thick concrete pillars inside the facility, which it bought using a front company.
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Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters dispute Endangerd Species Regulations (www.thedailyobserver.ca)One can safely assume also, that within these unmarked 'confidential' sites on Crown land, that all existing Crown land forest roads will be posted against motorized travel, as are so many others already posted, to avoid possible road kills of wood turtles.
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Tall Trees Curlies - Curly Horses breeders (www.talltreescurlys.com)All our foals are imprinted from birth, and all our horses are handled daily. We currently have a selection of weanlings, yearlings, 2 and 3 years old fillies/colts/geldings for sale.
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Harper announces judicial inquiry into disappearing B.C. salmon stocks (ca.news.yahoo.com)How did more than nine million sockeye salmon disappear in the Pacific Ocean?The federal government announced Thursday it will call a judicial inquiry into the collapse of the Fraser River sockeye fishery in hopes of answering that question.
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25.Dave Salmoni: Cat plight (www.nationalpost.com)
Salmoni's career with animals started in his last year of a biology degree at Laurentian University. His research project was to work with Canada's Ministry of Natural Resources to manage some nuisance black bears near Sudbury, Ont.
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