Tuesday, September 19, 2017

We have a new USA resident living in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona, 50 miles north of the Mexican border----The Jaguar(named Sombra) that was spotted last November in the Dos Cabezas Mountains in the southern part of the state has seemingly found Arizona to his liking and can be seen on video cam by clicking on the link below.............."Within just the past few years, three different jaguars have been spotted in Arizona, including a famous big male named El Jefe – photographed over one hundred times in the Santa Rita Mountains – and a younger male named Yo'oko, who seems to have staked a claim to territory on the Fort Huachuca military reservation"......... "The jaguars are crossing the southern US border from imperilled populations in Mexico, re-taking some of their former home range".............If Sombra turns out to be a female, she would be the first documented female Jaguar in the USA in over 50 years, providing hope that this species might jump-start their recovery in our Country............Of course, the question of wildlife crossings necessary to facilitate continued migration of Jaguars back and forth into Mexico continues to be debated in light of the proposed border wall to stop people from illegally entering the USA

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CLICK ON LINK BELOW TO SEE THE LATEST VIDEO OF THE JAGUAR KNOWN AS SOMBRA, IN THE CHIRICAHUA MOUNTAINS OF ARIZONA https://www.earthtouchnew...
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Monday, September 18, 2017

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Sunday, September 17, 2017

While it would seem to me that common sense would lead one to conclude that wild Wolves would be more highly advanced than domestic dogs in seeking out food without needing human cues, it has taken a recent University of Vienna study to verify it----"During the study, both dogs and wolves were able to follow communicative cues to find hidden food"............ "However, without direct eye-contact, neither the dogs nor the wolves chose the correct object"..................... "In the absence of a human to show them where the food was located, only the wolves were able to make causal inferences"............""The results of our study suggest that domestication has affected the causal understanding of our dogs".............. "It cannot be excluded however, that the differences can be explained by the fact that wolves are more persistent to explore objects than dogs"............. "Dogs are conditioned to receive food from us, whereas wolves have to find food themselves in nature".............As most of us would agree, if you are constantly given food, clothing and shelter without needing to work for it, you are likely to lose the ability and drive to go about acquiring these things using your own initiative..........Bottom line common sense and reinforced in nature is the fact that the animals(non-human and human) that have to problem solve and go out and make a living on their own without help from others will be able to be more successful acquiring that "living"" than those relying on a handout from someone

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https://phys.org/news/2017-09-wolves-effect-dogs.html Wolves understand cause and effect better than dogs September 15, 2017 ...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

As you Blog readers might recall, Long Island, NY is the last bastion in the Americas where there(to our knowledge) is not a breeding colony of Coyotes........Our "Songdogs" are found in every state, except Hawaii, every Canadian province, and every Central American country except Panama............And we were on the verge of this changing last Summer when a breeding pair(likely emigrating out of the Bronx or Westchester County, NY) took up residence in Queens at the Laguardia Airport..............Of course, Airport Officials went right ahead and killed the breeding pair, their 8 pups and a non breeding adult as if they were vermin----NOT!.................Back in 2011, a lone Coyote was photographed(picture below) on the South Fork of Long Island and it is believed that this "lone wolf" is still making a living as a bachelor(bachelorette) out that way-----Seen this past Summer outside of Southhampton!............There will be more attempts made by the 4 breeding Coyote pairs in the Bronx to make it to the Long Island............The majority of the pups of the year leave their natal territories in the Fall seeking out mates and territories of their own to fill............Like New Jersey(3000 Coyotes during Sumer months, 1500 in Winter), suburban Long Island offers Coyotes a smorgasboard of eateries--rabbits, squirrels,raccoons, rodents of all kinds, Canadian Geese eggs, et al...........Stay tuned for the next Coyote "mad dash" to the Island

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https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/East-End/532906/Long-Island-Coyote-Update...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

This one comes under the headline of RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT---A woman driving to Calgary(Canada) from her home in Airdrie going highway speeds, slams into a Coyote crossing the road,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,The woman assumes the Coyote is dead and keeps driving...................100km(62 miles) later as she gets out of the car in Calgary, what does she see stuck inside the grill in front of the car?..................The Coyote, embedded inside the metal grill but awake and seemingly uninjured.................And sure enough, after the Wildlife biologists and Emergency Crews freed him, the Coyote was pronounced "fit as a fiddle",,,,,,,Returned to one of the open spaces in the Provincial Parks outside the City.................."In many Native American origen stories, the Coyote is known for his crafty intelligence, stealth and voracious appetitite, a "comic trickster whose sometimes risk taking behaviour gets him into trouble while ultimately his cleverness gets him back out"...................I would say this episode of surviving a direct car hit reinforces all of these characteristics that Indians saw in our SONG DOG-THE COYOTE

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https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.kamloopsbcnow.com/news/news/National_News/Miracle_coyote_hit_by_car_on_Alberta...
Monday, September 11, 2017

Are you a person who feels the impact of both the place that you reside in and the season of the year?..............As an October baby, I know that I am a "PLACE AND SEASON PERSON" for sure, reacting to the smells, sounds, landscape, people and wildlife around me with primal intensity as one season passes to the next................As NORTHERN WOODLANDS MAGAZINE Editor Dave Mance states so knowingly- "Some months, like some people, have a very strong sense of who and what they are".........Read his column below and see if you agree with his description of you based on birthday and "place"

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