Subject: Wildlife

• Whale Tale

  July 20, 2006

• Republic Tigers Listening Party Announced

  April 23, 2008

• Where are all the acorns?

  The title of this post is basically the question brought up this past Sunday in the Washington Post. The article notes the lack of acorns up and down the east coast and that poor little squirrels are having a tough time coping.As I was reading the article I realized that hey, I haven't seen any acorns this winter in Kansas City either. Forget Washington D.C. -- Kansas City is in the midst of a great acorn shortage as well, and It's not like there's a lack of oak trees lining many Kansas City nei

  December 4, 2008

• Best Canoe Trip

  October 19, 2000

• Best Calamari

  October 19, 2000

• Squirrels on the menu

  The latest game-meat fad in Britain is squirrel. Yes, cute, precious gray squirrel. Not to be confused with the slightly more cute, slightly more precious red squirrel. Gray squirrels effect the population of red squirrels, and because red squirrels are cuter (just look at picture) the gray squirrels must go -- right into stews and the menus of posh London restaurants.Apparently, it's just coincidence that this gray-squirrel-eating craze coincides with a recession. But desperate times call for d

  January 8, 2009

• Best Socially Conscious Shopping

  October 18, 2001

• Gravy Images

  February 14, 2002

• Drunk as a skunk? Stoned as a squirrel?

  sportingnews.com There was a time when I was so ridiculously intoxicated that I was accused of being "drunk as a skunk." It never occurred to me, drunk or sober, to wonder where that expression came from. Only later -- with a clear head -- did I learn that its historical roots date back to at least the 14th century, when "drunk as an ape" or "drunk as a mouse" were commonly used. The word skunk, I discovered recently, is of more recent vintage. A reference to the stink-spraying animal, as

  January 26, 2009

• Best Guy to Hire to Get Horrible Wild Animals out of Your House

  October 17, 2002

• Is groundhog edible?

  Yesterday an incredibly uncomfortable looking Punxsutawney Phil -- "seer of seers, prognosticator of prognosticators" -- came out of his stump and declared six more weeks of winter. The crowd booed and Phil was put back into safety.Or was he? Would it be possible for for those guys in top hats to eat a plump Phil or one of his brothers?Despite being nicknamed whistlepigs, groundhogs are firmly in the rodent family, on the same branch as the quite edible squirrel. More importantly, they are in a

  February 3, 2009

• Best Place to Teach a Kid about the Laws of Nature

  October 9, 2003

• Shoot Out

  November 20, 2003

• Best Insect Infestation

  October 7, 2004

• Kansas City Reptile Show

  September 11, 2008

• Kung Fu Panda

  June 5, 2008

• Looking for Clues

  March 6, 2008

• Wag the Frog

  February 28, 2008

• Bird Tales

  February 21, 2008

• Gonna Need a Bigger Sleigh

  December 20, 2007

• Koalas at the Zoo

  May 10, 2007

• Beachfront Plague

  July 19, 2007

• One Big Dog

  August 31, 2006

• Shark Bites

  June 22, 2006

• Monkey See

  Whatever the women do in Judy Onofrio’s sculptures, monkeys do, too.

  February 2, 2006

• The Penguin Factor:

  December 29, 2005

• Circus Act

  Jill Foote-Hutton's Carnivale Pilgrimage is a circ du ceramics.

  November 24, 2005

• Earth

  April 23, 2009

• Miracle on Ice

  The life of the emperor penguin isn't easy, but it might make yours seem better.

  July 7, 2005

• My Shark Places

  Susan Casey goes into the deep

  June 16, 2005

• Trot Shots

  Kemper Arena hosts Harlem hoopla on Thursday.

  January 6, 2005

• Shark Bait

  Open Water delivers more flaws than jaws.

  August 19, 2004

• Just Shoot Me

  At Cabela's Yukon Base Camp Grill, the food chain is missing a few links.

  December 18, 2003

• Mean Old Frisco

  UniverSoul's hip-hop circus can't shake old-fashioned allegations.

  November 6, 2003

• Art of Insecticide

  Catherine Chalmers' American Cockroach exhibit may really bug some people out.

  September 4, 2003

• Animal Control Freak

  A Jackson County officer monkeys around.

  January 16, 2003

• Predatory Practices

  At WildCare, birds of prey didn't have a prayer.

  October 10, 2002

• Deep Freeze

  In the Ice Age, three mammals and a baby try to keep us warm.

  March 14, 2002

• Conundrum

  At the same time hundreds of dead gray whales were washing up on beaches, their birthrate was plunging. Theories around, but little hard data has been gathered to solve this environmental puzzle.

  December 20, 2001

• Night & Day Events

  Week of September 20, 2001

  September 20, 2001

• Dying Breeds

  Siberian Eskimos on the edge of the Earth and the brink of starvation saved their lives and their culture by reviving the lost tradition of whale hunting. Now they worry the gray whales are poisoned.

  April 5, 2001

• Rabbits Don't Rest

  Ken Ferguson's ceramic rabbits run all over the Kemper.

  December 21, 2000

• Jungle Heat

  April 30, 2009

• It's probably best to avoid much contact with Missouri's feral hog population right now

  Day four of "Panico 09!" is upon us, and everybody is treating anything having to do with hogs or pigs as un-kosher. So this is as good a time as any to offer good lifetime advice: Avoid Missouri's feral hogs!Yes, Missouri has a small but stout population of wild pigs, just roaming around and waiting to infect city folk with their terrible swine flu. OK, that's not true. Every single case of swine flu in America came from other human beings, not pigs, and there is a very good chance that none of

  April 28, 2009

• For the Hedgehogs

  June 18, 2009

• Reptiles!

  June 18, 2009

• The Cove

  September 3, 2009

• It's man vs. hog in Missouri

  ​Missouri is going to the hogs. In the midst of a feral hog population boom, the Missouri Department of Conservation is trying to raise awareness about the problems wild hogs are causing in the state. Though 400 hogs have been killed since January 1, the MDC's Rex Martensen believes that's just a stop-gap solution and not the long-term answer:  At some point, we need to have more serious funding for hog eradication, but with the economic downturn that probably won't happen any time soon.

  September 15, 2009

• Music Made For Monkeys

  While this story from Wired about music for monkeys might be a few months old, it's still a fascinating read. Entitled "Monkeys Don't Go For Music -- Unless It's Made for Them," it demonstrates that monkeys don't really respond to human music, instead preferring silence. However, "when a psychologist and a musician collaborated to compose music based on the pitch, tone and tempo of tamarin calls, they discovered that the species-specific music significantly affected monkey behavior and emotiona

  November 13, 2009

• NKC School Board refuses to protect children from homosexual penguin agenda

  ​North Kansas City man John Dixon failed at leading the charge against gay penguin indoctrination in our public schools Monday night.In a 3-2 decision, the North Kansas City school board denied Dixon's request that the story And Tango Makes Three be removed from circulation at all North Kansas City schools. The book is based on the true story of two male penguins at New York's Central Park Zoo who live together as a couple -- and raise a healthy young chick from an egg -- as a functioning fami

  December 23, 2009