Chad Love

Chad Love: Predators Behaving Strangely

Online Editors — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:20:37 -0500

There are wildlife photographers and then there are National Geographic wildlife photographers. Even in today's real-time, caught-on-tape video-dominated culture the photographers of NG just keep capturing still images and stories with the power to awe. Images and stories like this

Besides highlighting the exceptional clankers one needs to be a NG photographer, it shows - in dramatic fashion - how little we really know about animal behavior: how they process information, what they feel, how they think, what emotions they are or aren't capable of.

Chad Love: Trail Cams in the Classroom

Online Editors — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:36:04 -0500

Trail cameras are, for hunters, becoming so ubiquitous that we often don't think about their potential for other uses. I certainly never did until my son said he wanted one for Christmas, not for hunting, but to record all the various wildlife that travels through our rural back yard.

I thought it was a great idea, and in the broader context I thought it had real potential to get kids interested in the outdoors. But as I was perusing the excellent Southern Rockies Nature Blog recently I discovered a link to a teacher who had already figured that out.

Chad Love: Best Tasting Ducks

Online Editors — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:17:33 -0500

OK, waterfowl hunters, here's a question for you: if you had a chance to hand over one of your ducks to a world-class chef and have him turn it into a meal fit for the most discriminating of gourmands, what species of duck would you choose?

Believe it or not, this isn't a hypothetical question, at least for California duck hunters.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – With fall duck hunting season about to take flight, Sacramento’s own Grange Restaurant & Bar is giving area hunters the chance to bring their (dearly departed) feathered friends into the restaurant and pay respects in delicious style as part of an exclusive four-course meal prepared by acclaimed Executive Chef Michael Tuohy. As the ducks make their fall pilgrimages across ...

Chad Love: What's Your Favorite Invasive Species?

Online Editors — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:46:52 -0500

In the never-ending debate over the impact of non-native species, there are invaders many of us have come to accept and even revere (the ringneck pheasant, Huns, chukars) and there are invaders that are almost universally reviled (the snakehead, kudzu, zebra mussels, Texas Longhorn fans).

But according to this interesting piece in Slate maybe invasive species, both "good" and "bad" really aren't such a big deal, after all.

Chad Love: Bears Don't Play Hockey

Online Editors — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:05:12 -0500

Here's an interesting story that highlights why I believe it's possible to be opposed to animal cruelty without falling into the hypocrisy of "animal rights." Ice-skating Bear Kills Circus Head

Muslim Insurgents Mauled to Death by Bear After Hiding Out in Its Den

Online Editors — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:28:55 -0500

Looks like the U.S. military needs to expand its recruiting efforts...

Chad Love: Cut Down a Tree with a Ten-Dollar Knife

Online Editors — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:38:32 -0500

So say you're stuck in the woods, the temperature's dropping fast and you need shelter and fire, quickly. There are trees all around but you have neither saw nor axe. All you have is your knife. It's not even a big Rambo-inspired, serrated-edge survival sword with a picatinny rail, but a twelve-dollar plastic-handled mora with a little four-inch blade. Hey, no problem.

Chad Love: The Zombie Plague

Online Editors — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:58:12 -0400

Sometimes you read something that - to be perfectly honest - leaves you feeling hopeless and doomed. Something so depressing it makes you want to throw up your hands, shout "to hell with it all!" and head straight to the nearest bar. Something like this, from the LA Times.

The latest figures from Nielsen have children's TV usage at an eight-year high. Children's health advocates warn of adverse effects.

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The Cult of the Wels: Catching Giant, 200-Plus Pound Catfish in European Rivers

Joe_Cermele — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:25:04 -0400

Chad Love: Are Modern Hunters Wimps?

Joe_Cermele — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:51:14 -0400

I like to think that I'm a real man. A big, strong manly man. An apex predator and the absolute pinnacle, the crowning achievement of thousands of years of evolutionary progress.

My wife, on the other hand, has always suspected I'm completely delusional, and finally, here's her proof.

MODERN MAN A WIMP SAYS ANTHROPOLOGIST:

LONDON (Reuters) - Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions.Some Tutsi men in Rwanda exceeded the current world high jump record of 2.45 meters during initiation ceremonies in which they had to jump at least their own height to progress to manhood. Any Neanderthal woman could have beaten former bodybuilder and current California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in an arm wrestle.

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