Whether it's in class, on the bus, or in front of the tube, usually sleepiness will conquer. This holds true for wolf pups too! Join Ambassador wolf pup Nikai as he fights the zzzs.

Nikai is the newest adorable addition to the Wolf Conservation Center's Ambassador Pack in South Salem, NY! As an Ambassador, Nikai will help WCC wolves Atka, Zephyr, and Alawa open the door to understanding the importance and plight of their wild kin.

Gray Wolves (Canis lupus ) were once the most widely distributed wild mammals. They inhabited most of the available land in the northern hemisphere.


Due to the destruction of their habitat and persecution by humans, they now occupy only about two-thirds of their former range worldwide, and only about 3 percent of the continental 48 United States.

Kaniehtakeron ‘Geggs’ Martin working at 55th Street. He's a fourth generation ironworker from Kahnawake.

Balancing 27 stories above midtown Manhattan on a recent afternoon, ironworker Kaniehtakeron ‘Geggs’ Martin straddled an I-beam on top of a rising skyscraper on 55th Street and grabbed a steel beam out of the air with a steady gloved hands.

Gently swaying the steel knocked into a support column with a deadening gong that provided the bass note to the work site’s dissonant clanging and sizzling welding.

Martin, 35, is a fourth generation Mohawk ironworker, and comes from Kahnawake, an Indian reserve outside of Montreal that has been supplying the city with ironworkers for the past century. Mohawks have worked on nearly ever skyscraper and bridge in New York City for over a century.


“It’s my job to climb the steel and erect the iron,” said Martin, who works as a connecter on the raising gang. “I put the building up, basically.”

Today, there are about 200 Mohawk ironworkers working in the New York area, out of 2,000 structural ironworkers, according to the union. Most still travel home to Canada on weekends.

“A lot of people watch us and ask me if I’m crazy, but it’s fun,” Martin said. ”You got to love what you do. They always often ask me if I’m afraid of heights… a lot of people are. I’m one of them who isn’t.”



A myth has long persisted that Mohawk ironworkers possess some innate skills that allow them to work at high altitudes, fearlessly.

In 1949, New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell described Mohawks as “the most footloose Indians,” and, quotes an official of the Dominion Bridge Company, the first company to hire Mohawks to do ironwork in the 1880s as saying “that putting riveting tools in their hands was like putting ham with eggs.”


At its peak in the late 1950s, there were 800 Mohawk ironworkers living in North Gowanus in a neighborhood nicknamed Little Kahnawake. They made up about 15 percent of ironworkers then. Today, they make up about 10 percent.

“Virtually every skyscraper … has been built by Mohawk and other Iroquois ironworkers including the new Time Warner building…Rockefeller Center, Empire State building, Chrysler, all these skyscrapers, virtually all the bridges,” said Robert Venables, a historian and former Director of Cornell University’s American Indian studies program.
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A mother hyena will do anything to protect her babies -- even, in this case, when she’s fighting for her own life.

A pregnant brown hyena was walking along the Savé River in Zimbabwe when she became caught in a hunting snare set by poachers. Reacting to the trauma, the hyena delivered three cubs on the spot -- but she was still stuck (it’s worth noting that hyena birth is notoriously painful, and many mothers don’t even make it through the experience).

Despite fighting for her own life, the mother’s instinct was still to protect her babies, so she dug a small den under herself to keep them safe. This was when rescuers from the African Wildlife Conservation Fund came across her, having been tipped off of a wounded hyena in the area. They darted her with a tranquilizer and approached to find a surprise -- two cubs squirming around in the dirt, just a few days old (sadly, one of the cubs had died before they arrived).

Immediately, the workers removed the snare, treated the mother’s wounds (which, luckily, weren’t deep) and gave her antibiotics and an IV to stave off dehydration.


They nugded the pups toward their mother and, stunningly, they began to suckle.

The rescuers moved away to watch an incredible moment in mothering history. They wrote on their Facebook page:


We swiftly moved away, and out of sight, so as not to alarm the hyaena when she woke up. We watched from a distance and were elated when we saw the female back on her feet and acknowledging the pups! What we witnessed yesterday was testament to the resilience of wild animals.

The team returned later to find that the dedicated mother had moved along to another den, bringing her cubs along with her, all of them living through a near-fatal saga.
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Look at that face! It's easy to see why Nikai the wolf pup is captivating people in Salem, NY.

The seven-week, old, ten pound baby is settling into his new home at the Wolf Conservation Center.

His name, Nikai, means little saint and one who wanders -- and we can see both characteristics in this adorable little guy!

Caretakers at the centre expect he'll be able to interact with the public later this summer once he's received his vaccinations.


"Not only is he very comfortable with people so far, and pretty good on a leash, which amazes me, but he is also doing very well in the van," WCC Executive Director Maggie Howell told local media.

Apparently Nikai loves the camera already -- which is rare for wild animals.


Nikai is a mix of the Canadian/Rocky Mountain grey wolf.

He'll remain at the conservancy for the rest of his life. During that time, he'll help teach the public about the wide variety of wolf subspecies and the important role they play in the ecosystem.
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This Is What Happens When A Dog Meets A Robot Spider

Prepare yourself for the oddest handshake ever: between a lemon beagle and a robot spider.

In this short from Maymo The Lemon Beagle, the ever-inquisitive canine saunters up to the "spider," bats it around in a bout of bravery, but finally settles on an adorable compromise.

Three words: spider paw massage.

Though this isn't the first time we've featured Maymo, it's certainly the spideriest.


Maymo is a seriously funny lemon beagle dog made famous by his extremely cute and derpy activities. His videos have appeared on major television shows and websites
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A female manatee was left stranded on a beach in Florida after a mating session tired it out.

The animal was discovered on Disappearing Island in Ponce Inlet, Florida, after a herd went back to sea and abandoned her. Rescue teams waited for the manatee to make its own way back into the sea, but it was too exhausted.

After a group of tourists gathered to help, it was eventually released back out into the water using a canvas stretcher, around six hours after it washed onto the sand.

Jim Yurecka, the man who found the beached animal, told ABC News he saw a group of manatees in shallow waters on Wednesday morning. After a while, the group went back to the ocean, leaving the female behind.

He said: 'I was trying to see if it would go back itself. But it wasn't moving. 'If it was left on shore on low tide at night, it might not make it until the next morning.'


FWC spokesman Brandon Basino told the station it took them two hours to reach the scene from their closest office in Jacksonville. They waited for the female manatee to move back to the ocean by itself, Basino said, but it appeared that it was too exhausted to move.


'It is quite natural for female manatees to swim to shallow water during mating season,' Georgia Zern, manager at the Marine Science Center told ABC. 'The manatee was only about 30 feet away from the water,' Zern said. 'It just appeared that the female manatee was too tired to go back by itself.'

'The Disappearing Island is a popular spot for tourists, so there were a lot of people nearby, Zern added. 'In the end, about 20 people used a canvas stretcher and lifted it back into the water.'
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A video that is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face shows a wolf puppy and a border collie puppy play tug-of-war.

The video, from the Wolf Conservation Center, describes what's happening:

"It took a little while, but Nikai, a 9-week-old wolf pup, started to get the hang of playing with Faye, a 13-week-old Border Collie, toward the end of their first playdate. It's easy to see that Faye is definitely controlling the games, though!

"The two cute canids met up so that Nikai could benefit from socializing with another puppy. Faye is a perfect date for him - patient, intelligent and boundlessly energetic - she likes to control the toys, but she constantly engages Nikai and is completely comfortable roughhousing with him.


'Nikai is the newest adorable addition to the Wolf Conservation Center's Ambassador Pack in South Salem, NY! As an Ambassador, Nikai will help WCC wolves Atka, Zephyr, and Alawa open the door to understanding the importance and plight of their wild kin. If you're unable to hear and see the kiddo in person, please join us online or on Facebook to follow his growth and adventures. It should be fun (and educational) watching him thrive and become yet another powerful presence in the fight to preserve wolves' rightful place in the environment."
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A rally to protest sport hunting and trapping of wolves in the United States drew about 150 participants on Saturday outside the gates of Yellowstone National Park, an organizer said.

Demonstrators at the event in Gardiner, Montana, at the northwest entrance to the park called for an overhaul of government wildlife management policies for the animals.

Thousands of wolves have been legally hunted, trapped or snared in the three years since the predators were removed from the federal endangered and threatened species list in the Northern Rockies and western Great Lakes.

“We need some places out West where wolves can be wolves without fear of being shot, trapped, strangled or beaten to death,” rally organizer Brett Haverstick said in a telephone interview.

Haverstick said roughly 150 people attended the rally, with participants coming from a range of U.S. states such as Idaho, Montana, California and Florida.


Wolves neared extinction in the Lower 48 states before coming under U.S. Endangered Species Act protections in the 1970s. Federal wildlife managers two decades ago released fewer than 100 wolves in the Yellowstone area over the objections of ranchers and hunters, who complained wolves would prey on livestock and big-game animals like elk.

Wolves in the park and its border states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming were estimated at nearly 2,000 at the time of delisting and now number about 1,700 due to liberal hunting and trapping seasons and population control measures by states such as Idaho.

Ranchers and sportsmen say wolf numbers must be kept in check to reduce conflicts.

“Livestock producers have made many concessions to accommodate wolves on the landscape and the result is we have a healthy wolf population and yet a decrease in cattle depredations,” said Jay Bodner, natural resource director for the Montana Stockgrowers Association.

(Reporting by Laura Zuckerman in Salmon, Idaho, Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis, Bernard Orr)
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“ When I see bears, wolves and wolverines eating salmon here in midwinter, it all relates to water quality – it’s what makes this little biological piece of work happen.” — Phil Timpany

Bear naturalist Phil Timpany tells a story of one his favourite grizzlies. Bernice is 27 years old and Phil has known her since she was a cub. Phil explains the nursing sequence and relationship between mother and cub.

Fishing Branch bears live in an unscathed ecosystem with little impact from humans. The bears have become quite accustomed to visitors at Bear Cave Mountain. In nature’s world, grizzlies are at the top of the food chain and thus most have no natural fear of enemies, including humans. However, each bear is an individual, and some individuals are more cautious of new things than others.

"You always deal with individual bears; some bears never do become tolerant of people. One of the most critical things is that we never determine the distance we are from a bear. We let the bears decide the distance. The bears have such varied personalities, but all bears have the same nature. They’re intelligent and tolerant – they’re really not interested in getting into trouble with you.” — Phil Timpany


The Vuntut Gwitchin people are strongly connected to Fishing Branch and Bear Cave Mountain. Ni'iinlii Njik is a sacred area with a long history of traditional use. Gwitchin elders remind us how the Fishing Branch watershed and tributaries are vital for the community and for the protection of fish and caribou. In the spring, the Porcupine caribou herd migrates through this area.
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MOTHER GRIZZLY NURSING – RARE FOOTAGE FROM BEAR VIEWING EXPERIENCE from Neil Hartling on Vimeo.

The 12,600-year-old remains of an infant boy were reburied Saturday in a Native American ceremony in the U.S. after scientists recovered DNA from the child discovered in Montana in 1968.

The boy's remains were put back as close as possible to the original burial site. Two film crews, about 30 American Indian tribal representatives and others attended the ceremony, The Billings Gazette reported.

"I hope that this is the final closure for you, too, as it is for us," said Crow tribal elder Thomas Larson Medicine Horse Sr., addressing the family on whose property the child was found.

The DNA taken from the boy provided new indications of the ancient roots of today's American Indians and other native people of the Americas. It was the oldest genome ever recovered from the New World and proved he was closely related to indigenous Americans.


The boy was between 1 and 1-1/2-years-old when he died of an unknown cause. Artifacts found with the body show the boy was part of the Clovis culture, which existed in North America from about 13,000 years ago to about 12,600 years ago.
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A stunning short video on GoPro’s YouTube channel offers a glimpse into the secret lives of a family of polar bears on a quest to find sea ice, but also serves as a sad reminder of their plight in a changing climate.

The footage was taken by filmmaker Adam Ravetch of Arctic Bear Productions, who is also co-founder of the Arctic Exploration Fund, an organization that’s dedicated to discovering and documenting how wild animals in the Arctic are responding to a changing climate.

Ravetch has also been working in collaboration with Anthony Pagano, a research biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey studying how polar bears are responding to a loss of sea ice. The agency also released footage showing life from a polar bear’s point of view earlier this month as part of the USGS Changing Arctic Ecosystems Initiative, which will help guide conservation efforts for polar bears in the future.


As researchers note, while their locations have been monitored in the field, there hasn’t been much behavior seen. With video collars that can survive the cold temperatures now being added to scientists’ toolkits, they can now observe more about life from a polar bear’s perspective.
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The Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) is a canid native to the Ethiopian Highlands. It is similar to the coyote in size and build, and is distinguished by its long and narrow skull, and its red and white fur.

Unlike most large canids, which are widespread, generalist feeders, the Ethiopian wolf is a highly specialised feeder of Afroalpine rodents with very specific habitat requirements.

It is the world's rarest canid, and Africa's most endangered carnivore. 

The species' current range is limited to seven isolated mountain ranges at altitudes of 3,000–4,500m, with the overall adult population estimated at 360-440 individuals in 2011, more than half of them in the Bale Mountains.

This little Morepork (or Ruru in Maori) arrived at New Zealand Bird Rescue Charitable Trust's Green Bay Hospital in Auckland when it was about a week old.

Now it is flying and has lost most of its baby feathers.

New Zealand Bird Rescue supports the community by assisting many thousands of sick, orphaned, injured and lost birds every year. Birds that come into care here are rehabilitated until they are ready for release back into the wild.

They accept and care for all New Zealand birds; no bird is ever turned away. Many have been victims of cat attacks, road accidents, pollution, fishing line entanglements, and human ignorance or cruelty.


The welfare and wellbeing of all birds is paramount. On arrival at the hospital they are assessed and treated, then cared for and rehabilitated until they are ready for release.

Video by Sharon Richards Photography: www.sharonrichards.co.nz
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In celebration of the last day of sloth week, we bring you this original video showing a glimpse into the secret world of sloths.

Okay, so perhaps a day in the life of a sloth isn't so secret because they move very, very slowly. In fact, the not-so-elusive creature is the slowest mammal. They move so slowly that algae can even grow on their feet!

In the wild, sloths spend most of their time in the trees of the tropical rainforest, yawwwwning, eating leaves, gazing at flowers and sleeping, of course.


While we love our lazy friends, some need help. The pygmy three-toed sloth, found on the coast of Panama, is on the IUCN Species Survival Commission's list of most threatened species. It's pretty certain that this sloth isn't going to actively defend itself from extinction, so we all need to put our best three toes forward and help!
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Yellowstone County Museum director Benjamin Nordlund discusses the importance of the Native American headdresses with in the warrior culture and how it was earned.

In this Montana History Minute, Yellowstone County Museum Director Benjamin Nordlund explains how headdresses were earned in the warrior culture and how important they were.

“Specific types of warriors would be able to where the headdress, you wouldn’t be able to just go out and make your own buffalo horn headdress, you have to earn it,” Nordlund says in the video for the Billings Gazette.

So, to all those celebs and models who think it’s a way to honor the Native culture, we say again—it is not.
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Feathered war bonnets (also called warbonnets or headdresses) are worn by honored Plains Indian men. In the past they were sometimes worn into battle, today they are worn primarily for ceremonial occasions. They are seen as items of great spiritual and magical importance. The eagle is considered by Plains tribes as the greatest and most powerful of all birds, and thus the finest bonnets are made out of its feathers.


Its beauty was considered of secondary importance; the bonnet's real value was in its supposed power to protect the wearer. Warriors wore the headdress in the belief that the power of the feathers would help them avoid injury. The feathers were commonly secured by capturing young eagles from nests and plucking their tail feathers when they reached maturity. This could be done three times before the feathers did not grow back. This method would allow the collection of as many as thirty six feathers. If care was taken in not disturbing the nest, this meathod could be repeated yearly.

An amusing home video shows the 11-year-old canine from Japan neatly munching kernels as his owner holds the corn steady.

As the vegetable is presented to him, Coco is seen excitedly licking his lips. He then proceeds to munch away at it, working from left to right.

So he can attack a fresh spot, his owner steadily rotates the cob. It takes the pet just over a minute to devour the whole thing.

To date the video of Coco eating corn has been watched more than 300,000 times since it was uploaded to YouTube.


'That crunching sound that Coco makes is so cute!' one viewer said after watching the pooch in action. (Source)

Corn on its own, is not toxic or generally harmful to dogs. Corn is an excellent source of energy because of its high carbohydrate content, according to veterinarian Brent Mayabb. Corn also contains essential fatty acids, protein and natural antioxidants. If you scrape off some kernels from the cob and offer them to your dog or allow him to clean off some corn remnants as you firmly hold on to the cob, you shouldn't expect any major problems as long as he isn't allergic to certain foods. (Source)

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Grouse Mountain is one of the North Shore Mountains of the Pacific Ranges in the District Municipality of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Exceeding 1,200 m (4,000 feet) in altitude at its peak, is the site of an alpine ski area in the winter season overlooking Greater Vancouver with four chairlifts facilitating 26 runs.

In the summer, the mountain features lumberjack shows, a birds of prey wildlife demonstration, a scenic chairlift ride, and a 2.9 km (1.8 mi.) hiking trail known as the Grouse Grind. Year-round operations include a 100-seat mountaintop theatre and a wildlife refuge.

Imagine a wilderness sanctuary where endangered animals can play, protected and secure. You will find all this and more at The Refuge for Endangered Wildlife, a research, education, and conservation centre at the top of Grouse Mountain. Dedicated to becoming a world leader in preserving both flora and fauna at risk.


The Refuge offers leading edge interpretative programs that make learning about nature fun and fascinating. The Refuge for Endangered Wildlife is principally comprised of a five-acre mountaintop habitat that is home to two orphaned Grizzly Bears, and a three-acre Timber Wolf habitat located at the base of the mountain. Be sure to come up early in the day so you can fit them all in. (Source)

Students will have the opportunity to see a unique dance experience when the Lakota Sioux Dance Theatre comes to Northwest.

The Northwest Encore performance series will host Lakota Sioux Dance Theatre. Founded on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota in 1978, the Lakota Sioux Dance Theatre sought to keep the legends and traditions of the tribe alive.

The Encore performance series continues with the Lakota’s performance of the “Cokata Upo! Come to the Center.” The performance is a three-part, evening-length work that celebrates the culture of the Lakota people. The three parts that make up the work are “Birth of Nation,” “Death and Rebirth” and “All Nations as One.

Immerse yourself in the rich traditions of Native American culture.


Founded at the Rosebud Reservation with the support of traditional Lakota elders and community leaders, championship pow-wow dancers, singers, musicans and storytellers, they perform Cokata Upo! (Come to the Center), an elaborate and captivating theatrical work celebrating the culture of the Lakota people. Live traditional, sacred and courting songs accompany traditional dances set against a backdrop of spectacular video imagery interwoven with stirring narratives and wisdom-filled creation stories.

Motion-sensing “camera traps” placed deep in remote ecosystems have been instrumental in recording the natural behavior of some of the world’s most elusive animals -- though sometimes they do catch something else: the earth-shattering moment they seem to realize that they’re being watched.

Just watch as this ferociously furry Pallas’s cat discovers the camera placed outside his den then move in for a better look.

These small felines, standing roughly the same size as a domestic house cat, are notoriously shy in their mountainous habitat high in the Himalayan mountain range. Footage like this, gathered from camera traps, is often the only evidence researchers have to go on that they are actually there.


In fact, just earlier this year, these majestic little Pallas’s cats was discovered living in Nepal for the first time ever -- offering tantalizing clues that the notoriously shy species’ range is larger than previously thought.
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Two grumpy old wildcats find solace in each other’s company.

Note: Habitat destruction due to agriculture and desertification is a significant threat in central, west, north, and northeast Africa where caracals are naturally sparsely distributed.

It is also likely to be the main threat in the Asian part of its range. As caracals are capable of taking small domestic livestock, they are often subject to persecution. Severity of depredation appears to be dependent on the availability of wild prey and husbandry techniques.

In Iran, the killing of small livestock has brought the caracal into serious conflict with local people, who sometimes make efforts to eradicate it. The cat has never been recorded to be killed in road incidents, and no severe poaching pressure on it appears to happen.

Paulchen, a ten-month old black Amur leopard at Germany's Hodenhagen Serengeti wild animal park, was abandoned by his mother at birth and brought up by a human foster family.

So he wouldn't be lonely, the caregivers allowed a rabbit named Lisa to keep him company.

The two became great friends and play together all the time.

"In the morning they would be lying cuddled together on their little armchair and licking one another," said Regina Hamza, Paulchen's foster mother.


When the two are playing around, Hamaza said, Paulchen doesn't seem to recognize Lisa as a possible prey.

And watching the video, it is not always clear just who is chasing who through the enclosure.

But since the leopard might weigh 500 pound when full-grown, it's too dangerous to keep the two of them together indefinitely, so the human caregivers will separate the two friends and put them in their own enclosures at some point.
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An inspirational video featuring Native American youth from this year’s Leadership Development Camp shows viewers who the youth are and who they are not—mascots, savages, alcoholics, drug addicts.

A black and white silent portion of the video has students each holding up a sign saying what they are not, like “I am not a mascot,” and “I am not a savage.” The students are then seen in color and explaining what they are—beautiful, a basketball player, a dreamer, a leader, the next cultural generation.

“We’re proud of our culture and never will ever hide it,” one of the students in the video says.

The Leadership Development Camp is designed for youth ages 13 to 17 from the Coeur d’Alene Reservation. Its goal is to develop leadership skills, resiliency, and strengthen academic skills.


The camp brings the students to the Washington State University Pullman campus for a week-long stay.

“Through participation in team building and sports activities and culturally responsive specialized academic seminars, this one-week residential camp offers students a chance to develop new skills, experience college life, and reflect upon and prepare to meet their goals for the future,” says information with the video.
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A man in Jackson being hailed a hero is speaking out after he broke a window to save a dog locked in a hot car.

Christa Lamendola has the story.

"I gave a it s good thud and the window just fell," said dog rescuer Alex Soper.

With temps in the 90s and a golden retriever puppy cooking in a car, Alex Soper says he didn't think twice when a shopper asked him to break the car window.

"It was in the heat of the moment. This lady was distressed. She tells me everything and i look in there. There's this helpless dog again and it had to be done. Somebody has to do it whether it was me or the next person that walked up behind me. Someone was going to end up doing it," explained Soper.


He says he and the woman looked for the owner and called the police, but after a half hour with the pup panting- they couldn't wait any longer.

"It was a hot hot day and it was hot inside the car and the windows weren't even cracked not that i condone that but not even a window cracked," said Soper. Jackson County animal shelter volunteer Joseph Lebeau says signs like panting can mean the dog is in danger.

"Heat exhaustion, dehydration- scardness cause they're left alone and it's hot. The heat. They can actually expire in a car just like a child," explained Lebeau.

 in Jackson leaving a dog in a hot car is illegal. But so is breaking someone's window. So unless a prosecutor says otherwise Soper could face charges. But to him that doesn't matter.

"Given the chance I'd do it again," said Soper.
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You can imagine the panic and desperation that Olive, a 3-year-old Chow mix, must have felt with a plastic jar stuck on her head as she lay in an abandoned Detroit home.

There is no telling how long she had been like that, barely able to breathe and unable to eat or drink. One thing that’s clear is that if someone hadn’t called the MHS Rescue Hotline, this sweet pup would have perished.

Already in a state of panic, it is understandable that she initially ran and hid from her rescuer. Thankfully, after some patience and reassurance, Olive was able to be safely removed from the house.


Once outside, the MHS rescue driver could hear the frightened dog gasping for air inside the jar. He was able to cut some holes in the plastic so she could breathe during the short ride to the shelter, where she could receive much-needed medical care and TLC.


You’re not going to believe the look of relief on Olive’s face after the jar came sliding off of her head. It is a look and feeling that was shared by everyone at the shelter that day. She was finally free to eat, drink and breathe.
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An eagle was rescued from the Columbia River around 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon by students and staff of the Tongue Point Job Corps.

Crews were aboard a ship, training on the river near the Megler Bridge, when they noticed a bald eagle flapping around in the water.

They thought it might be caught in a net but found nothing was holding it in the water when they guided the ship near the bird, according to Captain Len Tumbarellow, captain of the ship, named 'Ironwood.'

As the boat approached, the tired eagle tried to move away but the students and ship’s crew were able to scoop it up in nets and get it safely on the ship and into a box with blankets.


“It seemed like maybe it was getting hypothermic,” explained Tumbarellow. “We think it may have dove into the water to catch a fish and its wings just got too wet for it to fly off.”

They radioed to shore, where Oregon State Police from Astoria met them to take the eagle for medical care.

Before the rescuers released the eagle to OSP, they named him 'Salty.'
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A self-taught mapmaker from Warner, Okla. is changing the landscape of where many thought Native American tribes once lived.

According to NPR, Aaron Carapella has pinpointed the locations and original names of hundreds of American Indian nations before their first contact with Europeans.

Carapella didn’t know the exact tribe locations because centuries of forced relocation, disease, and genocide made it difficult to find the origin of where Native American tribes called home.

He researched books and visited tribes for more than a decade to gather his information, and created a map that depicts more than 600 tribes across the country.


The map includes the original and commonly known names of the tribes.

According to history experts, Native America groups were given names by European settlers that were often derogatory names other tribes used to describe their rivals.
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Take a closer look at Aaron Carapella's map of the continental U.S and Canada and his map of Mexico. He sells prints on his website

Salt Lake County Animal Services told FOX 13 News the dog’s owner was out of town and “Bergan” the German Shepard was left with a friend.

But just before 3 p.m. Wednesday, firefighters, animal control officers and neighbors went into rescue mode at 315 E. 4th Avenue.

The neighbor’s video shows firefighters using a ladder to climb to the third-story balcony, where they found the pet with a body temperature of 108 degrees. Animal control officers said the sliding glass door was closed and there was no water in sight. It’s unclear how long Bergan had been on the balcony, but the neighbor worries it may have been several hours.


“The dog was just gnawing on the metal, he was trying to get up a bit but kept collapsing so I went and grabbed a ladder and we started throwing jugs of water up,” said neighbor Jordan Dastrup, who filmed the rescue.

Neighbors then started spraying the exhausted pooch as firefighters worked to gain access to the apartment. Cameras rolled as rescue crews hauled the pet out of the building. Bergan appeared barely responsive.


“They didn’t say conscious but exhausted, just completely exhausted,” Dastrup said.

Rescue crews took the pooch to an emergency vet hospital, and he’s expected to survive, but animal control officers said it’s a disturbing reminder to make sure your pet has enough water.
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A heartwarming new video sees a dog teach a struggling baby how to crawl.

Valerie Stevens-Scott from Atlanta, Georgia, filmed the family pet, Buddy, giving her seven-month-old daughter, Allie, an impromptu how-to session after he spotted her frustratingly waving her arms and legs around on the floor.

In the clip, the concerned Jack Russell Terrier gets by the infant's side and shows how he niftily moves forward by hiking his front paws in front of him.

His back legs then drag behind as he gathers speed. Allie appears to be mesmerized by Buddy as he swiftly moves past her.



Many also praised Buddy for being an excellent teacher. Ms Stevens-Scott titled the comical footage Buddy's Baby Crawling School.

She says that Buddy was a rescue dog and now it appears, he is enjoying giving back to others.
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The dog got trapped while playing near his owner’s rims, which had been put on a patio. The curious canine was taken to a fire station, where firefighters used ‘cooking oil and a little ingenuity’ to safely remove the pup.

Those puppy dog eyes won’t get him out of this jam.

A curious California puppy with an ill-advised tire fixation took things too far and got his head stuck in the rim on Friday.

The pup’s owners brought their puppy donut to their local fire station for an extraction.


Firefighters from Station 41 in East Bakersfield used “cooking oil and a little ingenuity” to free the pup, then posted before and after pictures on the department's Facebook page.


The puppy was playing on a patio where his owner’s rims were temporarily stashed, a woman who identified herself as the puppy's owner said on Facebook. She added that the pup has no bumps or scrapes from his ordeal and is doing well.
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Sioux & Assiniboine Tribes Team with Brad Pitt’s Make it Right Non-profit to Build 20 Platinum Homes

The Sioux and Assiniboine tribes of Fort Peck, Montana has formed a partnership with actor Brad Pitt’s Make it Right non-profit organization to build sustainable homes, buildings and communities on their reservation.

Pitt established Make it Right in 2007 to provide housing for people in need. The residents of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation fit that criterion. There are more than 600 people waiting for housing on the reservation, according to tribal officials.

“Overcrowding is a chronic problem, with multiple families commonly living together in two-bedroom homes due to lack of accommodation,” writes Taylor Royle, a spokesperson for Make it Right.

The new homes will be solar-powered homes with three or four bedrooms; two or three bathrooms and be available to tribal members whose income levels are at or below 60 percent of the Area Median Income.


“As a tribal designer working in Indian country, I feel we have an obligation to design and build housing that is tied to the culture, community and place of Fort Peck,” says Joseph Kunkel, Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow from the Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative.


“We’re excited about the potential impact this project may offer the Assiniboine and Sioux community, along with provide a national precedent for Indian Housing nationwide.”

Construction is due to begin this year on the reservation.
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