I Don't Know About You, but I Try to Stay As Far Away from Those Things As Possible.

A Very Talented Artist from Near Where I Was Born

The heart of the Allegheny National Forest, in rural Pennsylvania, gives us artist   Judy Schrader. 

Animals are her favorite subjects. She enjoys painting wildlife, pet portraits, farm animals and country scenes. Living in the country, Judy has access to beautiful scenery and animals. The streams, trees, meadows, domestic and wild animals are such an inspiration for painting. 

For Judy, every painting is a learning experience from which to grow.

Wildlife and Nature Diary

Here are some samples of her beautiful work:

(Nature Artists)

Biology Fans + Sciency Illustrators =

Cuttlephant

"Here be the cuttlephant, an amphibious, multi-trunked, color-changing beauty.  . . .  with the camouflaging skills and killer instincts of a cuttlefish, to protect it from poachers."








Illustration: Copyright Meghan Rock [Portfolio]

Flying Squirwolf

"Sailing from tree to tree, the flying squirwolf casts quite the shadow on unsuspecting meals below.  . . .  with their ability to glide long distances, can launch coordinated aerial assaults, often organizing hunts while tiptoeing through the treetops. [Also,]  . . .  not restricted to hunting during the full moon."

Illustration: Copyright Natalia Wilkins [Portfolio]

 

What Hybrid Animals Might You Wish For?

  . . . and remember what they say about the things you wish for.

 

                                                  . . . Muhahaha . . .

from: Taranturaptor, Pandaroo, and Other Animal Hybrids We Wish Existed, By Nadia Drake.

Take a Break. Have a Snuggle.

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DO Animals Have Feelings?

As someone who has lived with animals all her life,
(no, not wolves)
I would have to say that the answer to that
question is a resounding yes!

"The onus of proof to show otherwise should be on those who deny that animals have these capacities," says scholar and animal advocate Jonathan Balcombe, author of The Exultant Ark: A Pictorial Tour of Animal Pleasure. 

In the book, published in May by the University of California Press, Balcombe surveys a new generation of studies into animal feelings, especially animal pleasure. Accompanying the scholarship are photographs of animals seeming to enjoy themselves: hippos and flying foxes, zebrafish and sharks, parrots and polar bears, a whole animal kingdom of pleasure. 

- from a Brandon Keim Interview with Jonathan Balcombe, 

Image: Jonathan Lhoir

Konrad Lorenz, a Nobel Prize-winning zoologist who studied geese "was convinced, not by any repeated scientific study, but by anecdotes based on living among geese for decades, that they fell in love with each other,"

"We know that many geese do mate for life, and have a single partner. Evolution should guarantee that they have strong bonds."

 - How to Have Fun Like Monkeys, Whales and Foxes,

By Brandon Keim.

POLITICAL APPOINTEES NEED TO FIT THE JOB

MOTHER NATURE AND HER BEDAZZLER

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