Coyote Pup in Southern Maine with Mange Why does this small Coyote pup look like this? Where is her beautiful coat? This young coyote pup is suffering from a painful affliction that often causes them to endure a slow and painful death. It is mange. What causes this affliction? RODENT POISONS And this is just…
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Photo by: Janet Kessler That Moment in Time That moment in time when I saw you and you saw me, stands tall within me and feels like a monument to your world and mine, the intersection. That moment in time when I saw you and you saw me, vibrates in me, whirls me,…
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Photo by: Andy Marks How many of you have awoken to the night time serenade of wild song? And why the song, and who is singing it? And where is the songster? Or how many of you have experienced one moment of that Coyote stare when the two of you met by chance …Coyote then…
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Keystone Carnivore Photo by: Shreve Stockton Human Health is inextricably tied to the health of animals and the environment. And today we are seeing serious outbreaks of disease that are truly becoming epidemics. So here in Maine we are seeing the latest outbreak of rabies in our foxes, and then there is the ongoing epidemic…
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Coyote CHOOSES to play with dog toysPhoto by: Janet Kessler I increasingly come across research on large and powerful carnivores regarding how we humans perceive them, and as a result, how we relate with them. Research is showing that the way people often relate to powerful carnivores is informed by their culture and their knowledge…
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“Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. Thus we should preserve every SCRAP OF BIODIVERSITY as priceless while we LEARN to use it and come to understand what it means We study and save it to our great benefit…. We ignore and…
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How do we perceive the lives of the Others who share our planet with us? In his enlightening book, The Biology of Belief, author and scientist, Bruce Lipton, writes that we as humans only see what our perception filters allow us to see in the world beyond ourselves. And our perceptions and their filters form…
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Our species views the behaviors of Coyotes from our human perspective…. a perspective that often cannot fathom how Coyotes see us and their world. Three behaviors especially are perceived as aggressive, but this interpretation is the farthest from the truth ~ Following: This behavior is more about their intelligence, which makes them CURIOUS about anyone…
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The best way to understand what that word biodiversity means….is to create it right where you live…..where you can see it happening…as you step outside! This is how ~ Create habitat…..a place where herbivores can thrive. And where herbivores thrive….so do their predators. Where caterpillars (herbivores) have abundant native plants, the birds (predators) have plenty…
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IT IS OUR TIME NOW….it is our time now to recreate our relationships with the sentient lives with whom we share our planet Earth. As our carnivores are recovering or expanding their range, our generation has the exciting opportunity to find ways of sharing the land and the sea with them. I’m wanting to share…
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