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!
Via Laughing Squid
From National Geographic:
— Read the restIn 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.
"Wolf puppies hunting for mice. Polar Park 2014."
You're welcome. — Read the rest
Nikai is 8 weeks old. Nikai has hiccups. [Wolf Conservation Center via Laughing Squid]
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
Taji Ameen adopts a baby werewolf and carries it around NYC in this VICE video. Artist Asia Charity Eriksen has made hundreds of "WerePups" since 2010. The dolls are so well crafted that they look alive, and have gained a cult following. — 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."
Wolfgang Matzl (creator of 2011's Inception-as-Victorian woodcut video) writes, "This time I made something a little bit different – a stop motion animation with puppets made out of meat."
(Thanks Wolfgang!)
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:
— Read the restThe Gray Wolf (Canis Lupus) is one of the most widely distributed land mammal species.
PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien and I had a conversation with The Madeleine Brand Show (a Los Angeles-based radio show on which I'm a regular guest), to discuss Miles' recent PBS NewsHour report on the return of wolf hunting to the American West. — Read the rest
An adorable but fed-up Shit-Tzu pup was in no mood when her human pretended to play Rock Paper Scissors with her for food.
Sitting in front of a plate of turkey, lettuce, and Cheerios, the man is seen pounding a fist into his hand, saying, "Rock, paper, scissors, shoot! — Read the rest
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
In 2020, David linked to a site that promised to automatically self-destruct if ever it went 24 hours without someone adding a message to its guestbook. The creator, FemmeAndroid, posted last week that the time had come [twitter.com].
"Well, the website is down. — Read the rest
