The Voyageurs Wolf Project set up a trail cam to record wolf activity in Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota. The video below features four frisky four-month old wolf pups, who are adorable.
Fortunately, no tourons are around to cause trouble.
The Voyageurs Wolf Project said of the video, "there are 4 different pups in this footage, though only 3 are ever in the frame at the same time. — Read the rest
A couple of weeks ago we saw a surprisingly loud 4-week-old wolf pup in Minnesota as it tried out some new howls. But the same can't be said for its Northwoods mate above. As hard as the baby wolf tries, the attempted howls don't quite cut it, at times sounding more like a timid cat. — Read the rest
This four-week-old baby wolf in Minnesota experiments with howling for the first time on its own, according to Voyageurs Wolf Project, and it's much louder – and cuter – than I expected. Way to go pup!
In the summer of 2016, a gold miner in Canada's Yukon Territory found an unexpected treasure. While blasting a wall of permafrost with a water cannon to release whatever riches might be found inside, Neil Loveless saw something melting out of the ice.
Good Music to Ensure Safe Abortion Access to All is an incredible benefit compilation of more than four dozen songs by the likes of REM, Wet Leg, David Byrne, Pup, Pearl Jam, Soccer Mommy, Ty Segall, My Morning Jacket, Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros, and other exceptional artists. — Read the rest
In this experiment, a realistic-looking robotic wolf cub was placed near some real wolf cubs and their mom. The robot pup had a built-in hidden camera. Upon noticing the robot, the real wolf cubs got excited by the robo pup and ran over to it, but soon lost interest when they realized it wasn't able to play with them. — Read the rest
A friend of mine showed me this moving sculpture created by contemporary artist Jordan Wolfson a few years ago called "MANIC/LOVE." It has stuck with me ever since. This large sculpture is of a red-haired puppet boy in chains being dragged around, dancing to the beat of music, and rolling its digital eyes around in its head. — Read the rest
YouTuber Dollightful repurposes old toys into fun new ones. She was planning to turn an old doll into a dragon, but stopped mid-build to redo it as an amazing werewolf. Very detailed documentation of her creative process. Worth watching to the end for her delightfully scary stop motion and puppetry. — Read the rest
"Lorne was born at a zoo in Georgia who breeds a select number of wolf pups to be used for educational purposes and for ambassadors for their species."
My friend Julie Wolfson is in Japan, and is sharing some of her photos. This is from a pet store in Roppongi, where the puppy cubicles face the street.
UPDATE: Boing Boing reader Goemon has an interesting comment about this place. — Read the rest
Alexander Liebermann, an accomplished composer living in Berlin, has been challenging himself to transcribe the sounds of penguins, whales, and other animals as an exercise for ear training.
Give his videos a look/listen. Partial notes included:
Gray wolf:
The Gray Wolf (Canis Lupus) is one of the most widely distributed land mammal species.
Over the years we've brought you many stories of kangaroos attacking or otherwise attempting to harm dogs, and you'll no doubt remember this story from last fall where a kangaroo tried to drown a man's dog. You might have found yourself wondering why. — Read the rest
Powerbanks are sorta like dogs. They come in so many different shapes and sizes, it's hard to believe they all belong to the same species sometimes.
Like, you've got your tiny ones that can fit into a little pocket in your wallet or purse that, even when fully charged, can only get your dead iPhone to about 25 percent, but that's fine because it's really just there in case you need a little extra juice when your bus gets caught in traffic. — Read the rest