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
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Goats don t grow on trees
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Hemingway’s Keys
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Friendship Day in the City of Brotherly Love
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A day for the oceans
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Take a hike near Lovers Lane
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Ahh-tumn
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Let’s go foraging
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A legend and a legendary home
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Meet our fuzzy Earth Day mascot
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Montreux, Switzerland, and all that jazz
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Up in the Highlands
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Protect your neck
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In the Himalayas for International Mountain Day
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The Grand Départ: Tour de France begins
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The Easter Bunny’s story
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Mountains fit for a queen
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Love blossoms
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The Badlands celebrates a milestone
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The Vestibule at Diocletian s Palace, Split, Croatia