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What the heck is a zedonk?! Folks at the Chestastee Wildlife Preserve in Dahlonega, Ga., were just a tad surprised when one of the preserve’s female donkeys gave birth to a foal with stripes on its legs and muzzle. The foal turned out to be a zedonk, a zebra-donkey hybrid. Apparently the female donkey had been engaged in a little hanky-panky with [...] A ?halftime report? on the oil spill from a reporter in the know Bob Marshall, outdoors writer for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, didn’t earn a pair of Pulitzer Prizes by being a journalistic lightweight. So when Bob wrote a “halftime report” on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill’s effect on the Louisiana coast, he got my full and undivided attention. His column, available in its entirety here, is the most [...] Anglers swim with the fish when ?skishing? We’ve all seen the cartoons: Some character hooks a big fish, the fish pulls the character into the water, and the character ends up getting towed through the water. Fantasy, meet reality. Paul Melnyk got himself kicked out of a surf-fishing tournament for striped bass when he donned a wet suit, swam outside the breakers, hooked a [...] Cute baby skunk turns up rabid A Des Moines, Iowa, family is feeling the pain of adopting a cuddly little baby skunk. Literally. The skunk, it turned out, had rabies. All five family members are now undergoing a painful regimen of shots to keep them from contracting the disease. So are six friends and members of the extended family. More than 20 others are being tested. [...] Anglers? litter infuriates me This week’s column is more like a rant. It follows up on a recent blog post about litter at West Virginia’s Marmet Locks and Dam: I went to one of the Kanawha Valley’s favorite fishing spots to get photos of people fishing. I ended up taking photos of garbage. The people were missing, driven off by bright sunshine, high [...]