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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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