Category Archives: Wildlife

Free Press memory hole

Posted on November 13, 2015 by admin

A memory hole is any mechanism for the alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records, such as from a website or other archive, particularly as part of an attempt to give the impression that … Continue reading →

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Did beaver ever leave Detroit?

Posted on March 21, 2013 by admin

By Joel Thurtell If you believe the Detroit Free Press, beaver were trapped to extinction in the Detroit area, and “then industrial pollution in the mid-20th Century made the Detroit River too toxic for beaver and many other species to … Continue reading →

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Beaver logic again

Posted on March 20, 2013 by admin

Once again, a federal agency is claiming the arrival of a lone beaver in Detroit signals less-polluted waterways. The claim was first made by a US Fish and Wildlife spokesman in 2009, when a beaver was seen at DTE’s Conner … Continue reading →

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Counting bodies, or not

Posted on January 31, 2013 by admin

  For all the adorable images of cats that play the piano, flush the toilet, mew melodiously and find their way back home over hundreds of miles, scientists have identified a shocking new truth: cats are far deadlier than anyone … Continue reading →

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Rat on the run

Posted on December 1, 2012 by admin

Those were the days. When you could phone out for finely-prepared muskrat and have the delicacy delivered right to your doorstep. I wrote about that delicious moment in time when I was a reporter with the Detroit Free Press. A … Continue reading →

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Let them eat muskrat!

Posted on November 25, 2012 by admin

By Joel Thurtell Hey, Zlati — I’d like to cook a rat for you! And then I’d like to thank you, Zlati Meyer of the Detroit Free Press, for giving me an excuse to run those muskrat stories I wrote … Continue reading →

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Rattlesnakes for sale!

Posted on October 4, 2012 by admin

By Joel Thurtell I visited the University of Michigan’s Ruthven Natural History Museum today. I’m always a bit wary in that place. You’d be nervous, too, if you went back to the place where you’d been attacked by a rattlesnake. … Continue reading →

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Hummers

Posted on September 30, 2012 by admin

By Joel Thurtell I thought I’d seen my last ruby-throat mid-afternoon Monday, September 24. The hummers — it may have been only one — were perching on my feeder and taking long drafts of nectar. Usually, I see that kind … Continue reading →

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He (or she) has an eye on you!

Posted on January 8, 2012 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell Want a great day trip? If you live in the Detroit area, a wonderful — and free — outing is waiting for you at the Leslie Science and Nature Center on the north side of Ann Arbor … Continue reading →

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Deceit and animal rights

Posted on December 9, 2011 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell A New York Times article about animal rights activists trying to shut down the horse-drawn carriage trade in Manhattan reminded me that little has changed in the choice of tactics used by self-appointed guardians of animals. They … Continue reading →

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