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The War on Wolves - an Animal Welfare Issue
Predators occupy quite a space in the human psyche. Humans have been “at war” with many of them since the earliest days of livestock domestication. While the lion occupies the imagination people...
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Elephants, Ivory, Africa and China #2
This posting may have better news on the ivory crisis. Hope so.Let’s start with this from the online group One Green Planet. It opens withMany never thought they’d see the day come, but it finally has...
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Moray – an Agricultural Research Centre From the Ages.
My wife Jo and I have just returned from a memorable trip to Ecuador and Peru. We organized our trip with the Intrepid company and they looked after us very well. Of course our main objectives were to...
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Sable Island - Graveyard of the Atlantic
This is the first part of a new chapter in my book From Polar Bears to Porcupines. In 1978 I traveled to Sable Island off Canada's east coast to start a research program on seals. §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ The...
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A Storytelling Gig
I have just been sent a poster that describes a gig I have upcoming in Halfax Nova Scotia. This event will be in supprt of the Hope For WildlifeSociety and I plan to share a few stories from my days in...
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Indian elephant in Sri Lanka - The Good and the Bad.
In 2010 my wife, her sister and I visited Sri Lanka as tourists and soon found ourselves going to many temples and Stupas around the country. Inevitably we also ended up at places where we saw...
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A Container of Medical Supplies to Uganda
In 2013 Dr. Christine Dranzoa, whose remarkable history I have blogged about a few times, wrote to ask me if I knew anything about an organization in Hamilton, Ontario who were able to send medical...
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A trip to the Argentinian Andes - part one
Back to blogging, after a hiatus of eighteen months. My excuse? I was working hard on a new book. This one about work in Canada. Title: Porcupines to Polar Bears. There are stories from the Western...
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The Seven Lakes of Argentina
In my the last report about our trip to Argentian I left you in San Martin, the final town on the seven lakes tour in the Andes. The evening before we departed we stopped in the town square to watch...
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Wildlife scenes in the Chubut province of Patagonia.
I left you in Esquel boarding an overnight bus for Puerto Madryn on Patagonia’s east coast. We go with a taxi to the Hi Patagonia hostel run by the charming and very helpful Gaston. So helpful that he...
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A Wet Nurse for a Bear Cub
There has been an unexpected delay in the publication of my new book Porcupines toPolar Bears. The manuscript was ready to go in late January. The intended launch date was at the beginning of April....
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A wild deer in the sitting room
Watching a group of wild deer cross the pond in front of the house is a form of magic. A wild deer in the house is a different matter. Something has to be done. Eight does on the pondBy the late 1970s...
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A tale of a monkey's tail
The Forestry Farm zoo in Saskatoon has had a small group of capuchin monkeys for many years. In 1981 a tiny infant arrived and was soon an attraction as it nestled up against its mother breast. One of...
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My duties as the zoo veterinarian covered more than just the animal collection. From time to time there were situations in which the blowgun I had designed proved invaluable. One such occasion...
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