Tag: animals
See baby hippo refuse to get out of pool until he gets ‘mom stare’
There appears to be something universal about the “mom stare.”
A video of a funny interaction between a baby hippo and his mother has gone...
Officials scramble to stop flesh-eating pest advancing toward Texas | Houston Public Media
The New World Screwworm continues to advance north through Mexico, toward the Texas border.
Screwworms are parasitic flies that were once devastating to ranchers, since...
Who’s the top dog? Wave-riding canines compete in the World Dog Surfing Championships
Charlie the yellow lab likes surfing so much he'll grab his surfboard and run toward the water, so much so that his humans sometimes...
Coastal Prairie Conservancy enters preservation agreement with Three Oaks Farm in Waller County | Houston Public Media
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The Coastal Prairie Conservancy has preserved another 220 acres of land in the Houston region.
The organization has entered into...
Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized
To play polo at the highest level, you have to love horses or be filthy rich. Ideally both. A team might field around 40...
Is It Time to Stop Protecting the Grizzly Bear?
But the ESA was only meant to safeguard against “reasonably foreseeable future threats,” Willms argues. Congress has the ability to protect species indefinitely—like it...
