Loyal to the end
Navy SEAL Jon Tumilson lay in a coffin, draped in an American flag, in front of a tearful audience mourning his death in Afghanistan. Soon an old friend appeared, and like a fellow soldier on a battlefield, his loyal dog refused to leave him behind.
Tumilson’s Labrador retriever, Hawkeye, was photographed lying by Tumilson’s casket in a heart-wrenching image taken at the funeral service in Tumilson’s hometown of Rockford, Iowa, earlier this week. Hawkeye walked up to the casket at the beginning of the service and then dropped down with a heaving sigh as about 1,500 mourners witnessed a dog accompanying his master until the end, reported CBS.
La Pamplonada
Running for your life with the bulls behind you isn’t easy task. I always say: Let the locals do it.
They have mastered this art and it really shows as they never get hurt at all.
I’d hate to see the bull coming at me from this perspective.
Orphan polar bear heads to US
The new Knut? Orphan polar bear cub heads to zoo via UPS
Qannik, found all alone in Alaska at 5 months, is being shipped to her new home.
It might be the beginning of summer, but Operation Snowflake is in full effect.
Qannik, a 5-month-old polar bear cub found as an orphan on Alaska’s North Slope in April, is being shipped on a UPS Boeing 747-400 from her temporary digs at the Alaska Zoo to the Glacier Run development in the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky.
The cub’s name, pronounced “Ken’ick,” means “snowflake” in the Inupiat language — it’s also the name of the gravel pad on the North Slope where Qannik was first seen. And Operation Snowflake has been in the works for two months, with the Alaska Zoo, Louisville Zoo, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Polar Bears International and UPS all involved.
But Qannik’s odyssey began even before ConocoPhillips employees found her all alone this spring. Researchers first saw the cub emerge from a snow den, along with her mother and a sibling, in February. When she was spotted again in late April, she was on her own. An aerial search for the mother and sibling turned up no clues, so the decision was made to rescue the young bear.
Qannik’s story is similar in some ways to that of Knut, a polar bear raised by zookeepers in Berlin, Germany, after he was rejected by his mother at birth. Knut became the zoo’s star attraction and an international celebrity before he died unexpectedly in March, drowning in his enclosure’s pool. Pathologists found that the bear had suffered a seizure due to encephalitis.
Read MoreMatterhorn views
Maybe, the most famous top mountain in the world after Mount Everest. The Matterhorn is a must see if you go to Switzerland.
Read More
-
Other Stuff
Weather in Philly
-
Overcast
61°F
-
Tue
81/64
-
Wed
86/61
-
Thu
82/63
