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Day 351 6/21/14: More Deep Sea Gossip
1. Have space aliens created an underwater base off the coast of Malibu? 2. I hope this is true: Great white numbers surging. 3. Can you handle the cuteness of baby pygmy sea horses? 4. Great news:...
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Orca Breaches Next to Stunned Kayaker
Thanks for this video, Brandy. It’s a stunner. Sorry if viewers must sit through a Gary Busey commercial first.
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Day 358 6/28/14: South Africa’s Intoxicating Marulla Fruit
I love Randall (of the famous Honey Badger video) because he’s funny and truly loves animals. This video of tipsy South African animals is pretty great.
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The View From the Top
(Thanks again to Peter E. for this cool photo from our Apex Expedition!)
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The Circus is Over (If You Want It)
The Chik-Fil-A cows danced, but no one seemed to be having much fun outside the Citizens Arena in Ontario, California. The costumed shills gyrated, goofed and sauntered in that exaggerated “Keep on...
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The Path of Playing Cards (Or the Gospel of Salty Junk)
On Tuesday afternoon, walking to the parking garage after work I passed a perpetually trash-strewn patch of plants and stopped to free a Macy’s bag impaled on a thorny branch. Grumbling with fatigue,...
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Writers on Animals
I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake...
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2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,000 times in 2014....
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When Obsessions Collide: Big Cats and Sharks
Read all about the bobcat shark encounter here.
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Roundtable Debate: What SeaWorld and Blackfish Mean to San Diego
These are the closing remarks of the June 5th discussion about the ethics and future of SeaWorld. Read/Watch more about this historic debate below.
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Shark Dreams Redux
I’m thinking of reviving this moribund blog. I miss writing about sharks and poetry. I miss posting unfunny jokes like this one.
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Try To Praise the Mutilated World
By Adam Zagajewski Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine. The nettles that methodically overgrow the abandoned homesteads of...
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Encounter by Czeslaw Milosz
We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn. A red wing rose in the darkness. And suddenly a hare ran across the road. One of us pointed to it with his hand. That was long ago. Today...
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