Five New GreenDog Cafe Cartoons
Better Living Through Cartoons
Monday, April 23, 2012
Monday, January 02, 2012
Sunday, August 07, 2011
Silver, Book 4: What Happened to Joy?
The clever (and large) medic with the horns is a Kouprey, a wild forest-dwelling ox found mainly in northern Cambodia. It was discovered in 1937.There are estimated to be fewer than 250 kouprey left in the world. These low numbers are attributed to uncontrolled hunting by locals and soldiers, in conjunction with diseases introduced from cattle and loss of habitat. No kouprey have been sighted since 1983, and during the last decade several searches for the animal have proven fruitless. The 2008 IUCN report lists the Kouprey as Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct). There is no captive population. The only individual in a western zoo died early in World War II.
The airplane passanger in front of Uncle Paul is an Alagoas Curassow Mitu Mitu, a large, mainly glossy black pheasant-like bird. It was formerly found in forests in north-eastern Brazil, but it is now extinct in the wild.
The species is one of only two known eusocial mammals (the other being the Damaraland mole rat) with a social struture similar to that found in ants, termites, and some bees and wasps. Only one female (the queen) and one to three males reproduce, while the rest of the members of the colony are sterile and function as workers.
The sand puppy also has a highly unusual set of physical traits that enables it to thrive in an otherwise harsh, underground environment, including a lack of pain sensation in its skin and a very low metabolism. As you can see, there were many reasons for Mrs. Nacktmull to run away and built a nice little bungalow in Treetown where she lives in peaceful solitude with her pet cat.
Cartoonist's Note: this is not an endorsement of violence against government workers, no matter how bureaucratic they act. This is a cartoon, and as such has license to indulge in a a little off-steaming. For anyone who's ever had to go through an important and annoying process, panel one is for you!
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Love Story; Who She Is
He said they're finally getting to move in together after a long time apart. He said "she dreams of carnaval, ice palaces, cruises to the antarctic." He added "I'm a panda; she's a giraffe."
Check back later to see the development of this unusual commission.
He said they're finally getting to move in together after a long time apart. He said "she dreams of carnaval, ice palaces, cruises to the antarctic." He added "I'm a panda; she's a giraffe."
Check back later to see the development of this unusual commission.
Athena At Trevi Fountain
Athena's First Carnaval
Friday, October 22, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Silver, Book 3: Miss Cranberry and the Law
Friday, January 01, 2010
Sunday, December 13, 2009
One Night in Nuaydung: Felix and his pals arrive at the night market.
(click here for previous page) | Read the Story from the Beginning
Endangered species acting in this scene:
Babyrusa Pig; Solenodon; Giant Anteater, Jerboa; Red Loris, Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit;Golden Parakeet
(click here for previous page) | Read the Story from the Beginning
Endangered species acting in this scene:
Babyrusa Pig; Solenodon; Giant Anteater, Jerboa; Red Loris, Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit;Golden Parakeet
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Silver, Book 2: A Bad Night For Felix Cranberry
Silver, Book 2: A Bad Night For Felix Cranberry
Threatened and Endangered species acting in second row, left to right: (click each name for interesting facts and photos!)
Babyrusa Pig, Colombia Basin Pygmy Rabbit; Solenodon; Jerboa; Giant Anteater; Golden Parakeet; Red Slender Loris
Fun fact about anteaters:
Anteaters have huge salivary glands and no teeth.
Anteaters, armadillos, and sloth are all members of the Xenarthra order.
Anteaters are in a suborder called "vermilingua" which means "worm tongue."
Learn more at The National Zoo site.
A few fact about Golden Parakeets:
The Golden Conure has been determined to be endangered, due to increased deforestation and now illegal cage bird trade. Locally it is considered a nuisance to agriculture and is used for food or hunted for sport. Golden Conures continue to be smuggled out of Brazil.
Breeding is apparently communal , with several females contributing two or three eggs to each nest and several adults caring for the young.
2 Facts About Smell:
Dr Stephen Lee, a ear nose and throat (ENT) specialist from Raffles Hospital, says variance in the sense of smell among people is greater than that of other senses - up to a factor of 1,000.
People recall smells with a 65% accuracy after a year, while the visual recall of photos sinks to about 50% after only three months. www.senseofsmell.org
The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit - depicted with amazing scientific accuracy in row two, center panel of page 18, with the Babyrusa Pig - is now genetically extinct due to the muscle of the meat industry: From an article from Jan 2009:
This may be our best current example of a subspecies (“species”, by ESA definition) being stomped into extinction by Public Grazing...I had worked for years trying to get the cows off, because the grazing clearly was at odds with the rabbits (trampling burrows and eating grasses and forbs necessary for reproduction)....
It wasn’t long before I began getting calls ...reporting collapsed active burrows, scorched earth between sagebrush plants, and other insults in the relatively small area where the rabbits were holding out. But the WDFW had instituted an elaborate “monitoring” scheme that conveniently sidestepped reality, and their “data” showed “no impact” from the cows. When the rabbits were down to fewer than 20, the decision was made to take them all into captivity....
The rabbits sent to the Portland Zoo were fed nothing but sagebrush for at least months...when they should have been fed grasses and forbs as well. (I know this because some of my ex-students were hired to make the trip to eastern Washington to gather the sagebrush and care for the rabbits). ...The last known one of those died a couple of years ago.
...the captive breeding attempt could never have substituted for the application of responsibility that would have combined conservation with science, and no one was willing to act responsibly.
Grazing was not the only thing that contributed to the extirpation of the Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit, but it was a very major contributor ... sagebrush is mowed, chained, burned and otherwise manipulated on vast expanses of public lands, to be replaced with more productive cattle forage – mostly non-native grasses largely useless to wildlife.
Other
human activities including development, energy transmission lines,
roads, fences and others isolate small populations of pygmy rabbits from
each-other... Fences and posts provide height for predator birds to
prey on pygmy rabbits – height that otherwise does not exist in the vast
Sagebrush Sea, and livestock crush pygmy rabbit burrows.
Although efforts to preserve the Columbia Basin gene have been supplemented with Idaho pygmy rabbits, the Idaho pygmy rabbit is also imperiled across nearly all of its range....
Unfortunately, things aren’t looking good for pygmy rabbits in the immediate future; Mega wind-farms and energy transmission lines planned for development across public landscapes are increasingly threatening some of the last, best pygmy rabbit habitats in the West.
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| Endangered species acting in this scene: Eritrean Warthog, Cambodian Ibis, Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle |
Threatened and Endangered species acting in second row, left to right: (click each name for interesting facts and photos!)
Babyrusa Pig, Colombia Basin Pygmy Rabbit; Solenodon; Jerboa; Giant Anteater; Golden Parakeet; Red Slender Loris
Anteaters have huge salivary glands and no teeth.
Anteaters, armadillos, and sloth are all members of the Xenarthra order.
Anteaters are in a suborder called "vermilingua" which means "worm tongue."
Learn more at The National Zoo site.
The Golden Conure has been determined to be endangered, due to increased deforestation and now illegal cage bird trade. Locally it is considered a nuisance to agriculture and is used for food or hunted for sport. Golden Conures continue to be smuggled out of Brazil.
Breeding is apparently communal , with several females contributing two or three eggs to each nest and several adults caring for the young.
Dr Stephen Lee, a ear nose and throat (ENT) specialist from Raffles Hospital, says variance in the sense of smell among people is greater than that of other senses - up to a factor of 1,000.
People recall smells with a 65% accuracy after a year, while the visual recall of photos sinks to about 50% after only three months. www.senseofsmell.org
The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit - depicted with amazing scientific accuracy in row two, center panel of page 18, with the Babyrusa Pig - is now genetically extinct due to the muscle of the meat industry: From an article from Jan 2009:
This may be our best current example of a subspecies (“species”, by ESA definition) being stomped into extinction by Public Grazing...I had worked for years trying to get the cows off, because the grazing clearly was at odds with the rabbits (trampling burrows and eating grasses and forbs necessary for reproduction)....
It wasn’t long before I began getting calls ...reporting collapsed active burrows, scorched earth between sagebrush plants, and other insults in the relatively small area where the rabbits were holding out. But the WDFW had instituted an elaborate “monitoring” scheme that conveniently sidestepped reality, and their “data” showed “no impact” from the cows. When the rabbits were down to fewer than 20, the decision was made to take them all into captivity....
The rabbits sent to the Portland Zoo were fed nothing but sagebrush for at least months...when they should have been fed grasses and forbs as well. (I know this because some of my ex-students were hired to make the trip to eastern Washington to gather the sagebrush and care for the rabbits). ...The last known one of those died a couple of years ago.
...the captive breeding attempt could never have substituted for the application of responsibility that would have combined conservation with science, and no one was willing to act responsibly.
Grazing was not the only thing that contributed to the extirpation of the Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit, but it was a very major contributor ... sagebrush is mowed, chained, burned and otherwise manipulated on vast expanses of public lands, to be replaced with more productive cattle forage – mostly non-native grasses largely useless to wildlife.
Other
human activities including development, energy transmission lines,
roads, fences and others isolate small populations of pygmy rabbits from
each-other... Fences and posts provide height for predator birds to
prey on pygmy rabbits – height that otherwise does not exist in the vast
Sagebrush Sea, and livestock crush pygmy rabbit burrows.Although efforts to preserve the Columbia Basin gene have been supplemented with Idaho pygmy rabbits, the Idaho pygmy rabbit is also imperiled across nearly all of its range....
Unfortunately, things aren’t looking good for pygmy rabbits in the immediate future; Mega wind-farms and energy transmission lines planned for development across public landscapes are increasingly threatening some of the last, best pygmy rabbit habitats in the West.
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