When people talk about the ‘dog days of summer,’ they’re referring to the sultry, hot days of the season that sometimes seem to stretch on forever–just like those long legs on the star of today’s homepage. This is a maned wolf, also known as a ‘fox on stilts,’ and it’s the largest species of canid in South America. As a canid, it belongs to the same family as the domestic dog, wolf, and coyote, and we think it makes a fun spokescritter for summer’s ‘dog days.’
Summer’s in home stretch
Today in History
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Remembering Jimmy Carter
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Go with the rainbow flow
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International Tiger Day
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Chestnut-eared aracari in the Pantanal, Brazil
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A notorious advocate for women
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Beethoven s 250th
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A lunar lantern celebration
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South Padre Island, Texas
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Sea lion in a kelp forest, Baja California, Mexico
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Ocean City, Maryland, at sunrise
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International Tea Day
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Total solar eclipse
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Embracing the cold
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Hemingway’s Keys
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Lands End, Cornwall, England
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South Stack Lighthouse, Holy Island, Wales
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Canada Day
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Traveling warblers
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A cozy winter village
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Composite of photographs from the Apollo 15 mission
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It s aboat time for the Barcolana
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Lavender fields on the Valensole Plateau in Provence, France
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Celebrating a young girl s age-old discovery
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Santo Antão Island in the Republic of Cabo Verde
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Cecropia leaf and lobster claw petals in Mexico
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World Environment Day
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Infinity Day
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Burns Night
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World Wildlife Day
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Let the holiday shopping commence