When you first see an Okapi your initial immediate thought is that someone left the barn door open and a horse met a zebra. Yet, the strange looking animal actually is more closely related to the giraffe than it is the zebra! With somewhat long necks and massive tongues, they are a breed unto their ...

Mongabay: Every school child knows the giraffe: with its record height, small horns, and tell-tale spots, it is hard to miss. Although well-known among school children and the public there has been a vacuum in giraffe research until recently. Dr. Julian Fennessy probably knows the giraffe better tha...

Mongabay: Every school child knows the giraffe: with its record height, small horns, and tell-tale spots, it is hard to miss. Although well-known among school children and the public there has been a vacuum in giraffe research until recently. Dr. Julian Fennessy probably knows the giraffe better tha...

Agence France-Presse: Humans and farm animals were known to emit harmful greenhouse gases through digestion, but German researchers said Tuesday that aquatic worms and bugs are also culprits, releasing laughing gas. Scientists at the Max Planck Institut and Denmark's Aarhus University found that mus...

Times (UK): The beaver is a gentle, retiring creature. He's a rodent lumberjack and he's OK: he works all night and he sleeps all day. And he makes a lovely waterproof hat. But this shy herbivore has now become the focus of a ferocious battle, at the very moment the wild beaver is returning to these...

Times (UK): The beaver is a gentle, retiring creature. He's a rodent lumberjack and he's OK: he works all night and he sleeps all day. And he makes a lovely waterproof hat. But this shy herbivore has now become the focus of a ferocious battle, at the very moment the wild beaver is returning to these...

Times (UK): The beaver is a gentle, retiring creature. He's a rodent lumberjack and he's OK: he works all night and he sleeps all day. And he makes a lovely waterproof hat. But this shy herbivore has now become the focus of a ferocious battle, at the very moment the wild beaver is returning to these...

Discarded plastics and styrofoam are destroying our environment. They wreak havoc especially hard on marine wildlife. I recently came across a textbook example of how such trash can injure and kill in the form of this unfortunate brown pelican ( Pelecanus occidentalis californicus ) which is entangl...

Just thought I'd share some shots with you on this beautiful but cold sunny morning in the Vancouver area.  Snow coming this weekend.  Great- snow in March and the daffodils are already about a foot high and ready to bloom. There is a big old dead tree not far from the house where 1 or 2 eagles pe...

Agence France-Presse: Humans and farm animals were known to emit harmful greenhouse gases through digestion, but German researchers said Tuesday that aquatic worms and bugs are also culprits, releasing laughing gas. Scientists at the Max Planck Institut and Denmark's Aarhus University found that mus...