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Daily Bread for 11.19.22: About Those 18,000 Marine Bones in a Smithsonian...
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 26. Sunrise is 6:52 AM and sunset 4:27 PM for 9h 35m 07s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 21.7% of its visible disk...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: The Corsican ‘Cat-Fox’
For years, scientists have wondered if striped cats on Corsica were a distinct species: Turns out, they are: The elusive striped “cat-fox” familiar mostly to Corsican shepherds and as a source of...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: The Best Way of Getting a Cat’s Attention
Embed from Getty Images Rachael Funnell writes This Is The Best Way to Get A Cat’s Attention According to Science: With the help of 18 domestic cats (8 females, 10 males) with a job history of at...
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Daily Bread for 5.13.23: When Domestic Cats Had Their Own Constellation
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 72. Sunrise is 5:33 AM and sunset 8:09 PM for 14h 35m 47s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 38.9% of its visible disk...
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Friday Catblogging: Cat Noses
Photo by Ryan McGuire on Unsplash Tanya Lewis writes Cat Noses Contain Twisted Labyrinths That Help Them Separate Smells (‘Scientists hypothesize that coiled channels inside a cat’s nose may function...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: How Do Cats Cool Themselves Off?
Embed from Getty Images Hannah Keyser writes How Do Cats Cool Themselves Off? (‘Here’s a hint: It’s not by sweating through their paws’): Conduction allows cats to cool themselves off or warm...
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Daily Bread for 7.31.23: Newport State Park: An International Dark Sky Park
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 81. Sunrise is 5:45 AM and sunset 8:16 PM for 14h 30m 26s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 97.4% of its visible disk...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: Strolling with Shelter Cats
At Virginia Tech, there’s a study on the benefits of taking shelter cats for a stroll now and again. Marjorielee Christianson writes that Over 3 million cats enter shelters in the United States each...
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Daily Bread for 9.1.23: Wisconsin Farm Launches Tree Species Made to Clean...
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 82. Sunrise is 6:20 AM and sunset 7:28 PM for 13h 08m 37s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 96.3% of its visible disk...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: Nearly 300 Different Facial Expressions
See Think cats are aloof? They make nearly 300 facial expressions, study says: Brittany Florkiewicz has always been a dog person, but she was surprised by what she discovered when reviewing more than...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: They Have Their Reasons
Embed from Getty Images In Scientific American, Jack Tamisiea writes that Cats Kill a Staggering Number of Species across the World (‘Domestic cats are cherished human companions, but a new study...
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Daily Bread for 12.16.23: Fetching
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 44. Sunrise is 7:19 and sunset 4:22 for 9h 02m 28s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 16.2% of its visible disk...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: Space-Transmission Cat
?Justine McDaniel reports Taters the cat stars in NASA’s first video streamed from deep space: On the path to Mars, nearly 19 million miles from Earth, Taters the cat got his big break. The orange...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: They Know It’s You
Embed from Getty Images Nicola Davis reports Big cats can tell apart known and unknown human voices, study finds (‘Tigers, cheetahs and snow leopards, like domesticated cats, respond differently to...
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Daily Bread for 4.18.24: Return of the Cicadas
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will see scattered showers with a high of 53. Sunrise is 6:05 and sunset 7:41 for 13h 35m 58s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 75.4 percent of its...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: New Prehistoric Cat Species Discovered
Natali Anderson reports New Prehistoric Cat Species Discovered in Spain (‘The new cat species, named Magerifelis peignei, lived in what is now Spain some 15.5 million years ago’): It belonged to...
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Daily Bread for 5.23.24: Cicadas Begin to Emerge Nearby
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 76. Sunrise is 5:23 and sunset 8:19 for 14h 56m 20s of daytime. The moon is full with 100 percent of its visible disk...
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Daily Bread for 7.1.24: A Study of Wolves’ Influence in Isle Royale National...
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 74. Sunrise is 5:21 and sunset 8:36 for 15h 15m 55s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 21.4 percent of its visible...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: A New Color of Cat
Sharon Ardalo reports Mutation Has Led to a New Type of Cat, Scientists Say: A research team has identified a new type of cat which has the typical adorable face and fur pattern of the black and white...
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Daily Bread for 8.3.24: The Most Dangerous Garden on Earth and Other Extreme...
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 87. Sunrise is 5:49, and sunset is 8:11, for 14h 21m 58s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 0.9 percent of its visible...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: Why Cats Hate Closed Doors (Because, Ya Know, They Really...
Embed from Getty Images Over at Live Science, Margaret Osborne asks (and answers) Why do cats hate closed doors?: If you’ve ever witnessed a cat in front of a closed door, you might notice how much...
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