Label: Animals Nobody Loves
April 22, 2010
Turkey Vulture on a tree in my Driveway
Perching on the high branch of a tree at the bottom of the driveway of my house in the Hudson Highlands of New York State, was this "animal that nobody loves," an Eastern Turkey Vulture. The Turkey Vulture is the most common vulture in the New World.
Almost exclusively a scavenger (which means it eats the carcasses of dead animals), the Turkey Vulture rarely kills for its food. The Turkey Vulture tends to hunt by itself. It uses its highly-developed sense of smell to locate carcasses even hidden beneath a forest of trees. 
The Turkey Vulture on my tree was hunting in the area of my house which includes farmland with pasture and plenty of undisturbed forested areas for perching, roosting, and nesting. The large bird nests in dark recesses beneath boulders, on cliff ledges, in hollow trees, logs, and stumps, and in abandoned buildings.
Posted by: Seymour Simon
April 14, 2009
Editorial Observer - Science, Mythology, Hatred, and the Fate of the Gray Wolf - NYTimes.com
Editorial Observer - Science, Mythology, Hatred, and the Fate of the Gray Wolf - NYTimes.com
If you want to protect wolves from being hunted again to the point of extinction, then you need to protest the decision of the Interior Department to allow wolves to be hunted again. You can write to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar at feedback@ios.doi.gov .
Posted by: Seymour Simon
January 29, 2009
ANIMALS NOBODY LOVES
Did you know that a baby cockroach can crawl into your house through an opening the thickness of a penny? Read about cockroaches, rats, hyenas, vultures and other animals nobody loves in Seymour’s book ANIMALS NOBODY LOVES. Click on Seymour Simon’s Bookstore to get a copy.
Posted by: Seymour Simon
January 27, 2009
FUN FACTS
Do you know that all snakes are carniverous? That is, snakes eat only other animals, no plants.
Do you know that some snakes can eat an animal that weighs more than they do? (Can you imagine eating a sandwich that weighs more than you do?)
Posted by: Seymour Simon
January 27, 2009
Make up your own Animal Fact or Animal Fiction
How about you trying to make up your own Animal Fact or Animal Fiction?
Do you know if everything you ever heard about snakes is fact or fiction?
Read Seymour’s book SNAKES and make up your own puzzle! Send it to Email SEYMOUR SCIENCE!
Posted by: Seymour Simon
