May 20, 2022
Who’s smarter, dogs or cats? Cat owners, prepare to extend your claws. Studies at Oxford University suggest canines are smarter than felines, because dogs are more interactive. Cats prefer to be left alone and mollycoddled. To a dog you are family, to a cat, you are staff☺. Dogs also have to listen to all our...
Jan 21, 2021
Recently, a pilot helping to fight the fires in California had an unexpected guest board his helicopter mid-flight. Dan Alpiner, a pilot with Sky Aviation, was helping conduct water drops over the Creek Fire in Medera county when mid-flight, an owl flew in through the window and perched calmly inside his helicopter!...
Sep 11, 2020
You may have heard about the fox that was caught stealing shoes from people’s porches and gardens in Germany.
Berlin resident Christian Meyer noticed that his expensive running shoes went missing from his porch and decided to investigate the theft. After checking with neighbors, he learned he was not the only one...
Sep 6, 2020
Is an African grey parrot smarter than a Harvard University Student? Probably not, but it does appear to be better at the classic Shell Game!
The perspicacious parrot did as well as or bested the Harvard students in 12 out of 14 trials, using his beak to point! Perspicacious is another word for wise or shrewd....
Oct 18, 2019
Did you know that cows may have regional accents just like humans? According to the BBC, this phenomenon was first detected by dairy farmers who noticed that their cows had different moos, depending on where they came from. John Wells, Professor of Phonetics at the University of London, said regional twangs had been...