Friday Catblogging: Cats’ Spooky Eyes
Helen Czerski writes Behind the Spooky Eyes of Cats (‘Like scarier nighttime predators, cats have slit pupils that help them to judge distance and ambush their prey’): Halloween is approaching, and a...
View ArticleDaily Bread for 3.26.22: Why Dixie is the new Tornado Alley
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 34. Sunrise is 6:45 AM and sunset 7:14 PM for 12h 29m 12s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 35.1% of its visible...
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Daily Bread for 5.22.22: Inside the Hidden Collections of the Smithsonian
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 60. Sunrise is 5:24 AM and sunset 8:18 PM for 14h 53m 45s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 53% of its visible disk...
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Daily Bread for 7.2.22: The Journey of African Wild Dogs
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 85. Sunrise is 5:21 AM and sunset 8:36 PM for 15h 15m 32s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 10.5% of its visible...
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Friday Catblogging: ‘How Cats Make the Most of Their Catnip High’
Photo by Fernando Vega on Unsplash Oliver Whang reports Chewed and Rolled: How Cats Make the Most of Their Catnip High (‘A new study finds that the feline reaction to catnip and silver vine helps to...
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Daily Bread for 7.24.22: ‘Parentese’ as a True Lingua Franca
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will see morning showers with a high of 83. Sunrise is 5:39 AM and sunset 8:23 PM for 14h 44m 27s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 15% of its visible...
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Friday Catblogging: Using AI Facial Recognition to Conserve Pumas
Photo by Andy Holmes on Unsplash Ashleigh Papp, over at Scientific American, reports How AI Facial Recognition Is Helping Conserve Pumas: INTRO: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m...
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Daily Bread for 11.3.22: Crows (Yes, Crows)
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 71. Sunrise is 7:32 AM and sunset 5:44 PM for 10h 11m 24s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 73.8% of its visible disk...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: The Slow Blink
Embed from Getty Images Michelle Starr writes Scientists Confirm You Can Communicate With Your Cat by Blinking Very Slowly: In a study published in 2020, scientists observed cat-human interactions,...
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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...
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