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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Make your way up a picturesque passageway of Chefchaouen
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Happy Independence Day!
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International Moon Day
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Arrr, it be Talk Like a Pirate Day
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Atlanta Botanical Garden
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Is this Minecraft headquarters?
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Wildcat in a winter wonderland
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Toledo, Spain
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World Teachers Day
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Land ho in New Zealand 250 years ago
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The mighty, mighty mushroom
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Green sea turtle on World Oceans Day
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Celebrating migrations
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Kawachi Fuji Garden
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Quebec City for Winter Carnival
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When an ideal microclimate gives you lemons…
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The largest living organism on Earth
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A summertime light show
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Cannes, France, in the spotlight
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The Aomori Nebuta Festival parade, Japan
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Canadian Thanksgiving
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Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
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Tesla, the visionary
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Flamingos of the Chilean desert
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‘You should see the one that got away!’
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Poppies in bloom
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A winter’s holiday ends
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Diwali
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A wassailing we go
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Moselle River loop near Kröv, Germany