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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Happy Halloween!
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Happy New Year! (Again!)
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Incense making, Vietnam
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You re feeling sleepy
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The owl that loved football
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Relationship status: It s complicated
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A ‘Superior’ paddle
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Wicker fields in Cañamares, Spain
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Wedded Rocks, Japan
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Chapel of St. Michel on Lake Serre-Ponçon, Hautes-Alpes, France
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Terraced rice fields, Yuanyang County, China
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Aït Benhaddou, Morocco
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Cuban tody, Alejandro de Humboldt National Park, Cuba
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At the foot of Dubrovnik s Gibraltar
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Great Backyard Bird Count
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San Francisco’s City Hall illuminated by the iconic colors of Pride
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International Zebra Day
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Muniellos Nature Reserve
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Sparkling ice diamonds on a black sandy beach
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Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia, Chile
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Penguin Awareness Day
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Florentine garden brings generations together
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Cinco de Mayo
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National Moth Week
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Antarctica Day
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Windmills in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands
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National Frog Month
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Alaska moose
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International Moon Day
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Panda Day
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