Dog waiting in old Jeep

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dog, dog in a car

 

A dog waits in an old Jeep. Taken in Prescott, Az

Juvenile Swainson’s Hawks

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birds, juvenile swainsons hawk

The Swainson’s hawk pair that nest near my home in Prescott, Az have 2 youngsters this year. They are out of the nest, not flying much yet.

 

Ugly Az monsoon weather

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az monsoon, prescott az

I went out into my Prescott backyard this morning, and it felt like Phoenix 😦 Hot, humid, ugly. Until the Az monsoon produces some rain, it will be miserable outdoors.

Sled dogs closely related to 9500 year old ancient dog

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Dogs

link: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200625144816.htm

Now, light has been shed on the origin of the sledge dog. In a new study published in SCIENCE, researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, show that the sledge dog is both older and has adapted to the Arctic much earlier than thought.

“We have extracted DNA from a 9,500-year-old dog from the Siberian island of Zhokhov, which the dog is named after. Based on that DNA we have sequenced the oldest complete dog genome to date, and the results show an extremely early diversification of dogs into types of sledge dogs,” says one of the two first authors of the study, PhD student Mikkel Sinding, the Globe Institute.

Bogus corona virus data

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corona virus bogus data

I have a problem with this corona virus data.

The US has 4.29% of the world’s population. source: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-by-percentage-of-world-population.html
And we have (3081383 / 12118667) * 100 = 25.43% of the corona virus cases? source: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html note these numbers update frequently

NO WAY. This makes no sense at all. Unless there is a verifiable reason for this wild discrepancy, I simply do not believe these numbers.

I am not saying corona virus is not a problem or a threat. It is both.