Dogs Can No Longer Walk into Famous Brooklyn Bar

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One of New York City’s most famously dog-friendly bar, The Gate, in Park Slope says it will no longer allow them because it was busted under the city’s outdated health code.

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Bill Gates’ Mosquito Chart Too Harsh on Wolves, Sharks, Hippos; Too Easy on Humans

Bill Gates’ popular chart on World’s Deadliest Animals tries to visualize shows mosquitoes as the most despicable creature on earth. But it makes hippos, wolves and sharks look worse than they are and lets off humans (the true villains) way too easy.

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Reader question: what's up with this squirrel's raggedy fur?

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This VA squirrel has white, gray and rusty fur at all different lengths and angles. Can you figure out what’s wrong?

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Natives and non-natives mix it up at Green-Wood Cemetery

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Great egrets hunt Japanese koi at Green-Wood Cemetery, where a South American monk parrot may have gotten sick from a raccoon.

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How quickly will national elk feeding grounds spread chronic wasting disease?

The century old tradition of feeding elk outside Yellowstone could end up severely hurting the population by spreading chronic wasting disease.

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Doctors try to panic people into banning dogs and cats from beds

A new alarming study says people can catch 100 diseases (like plague and meningitis) from dogs and cats–but doesn’t offer much evidence they actually do.

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5,000 dead red-winged black birds still bewildering

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The Daily Beast is pronouncing “Case Closed” on the 5,000 red-winged blackbirds that fell on Arkansas–or as every news story likes to put it “rained from the sky.” Not so fast

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NY Epicenter of Bat Disease

Some NY bat populations are down 95% because of white nose sydrome, which first appeared in 2006 and now reaches halfway across the country. The little brown bat and northern long-eared are the hardest hit.

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Deer Wars: Coming Soon to a Suburb Near You

“The new front on deer wars is really the suburbs or the exurbs,” says biologist Tom Rooney says.

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Bighorn Sheep over Grazing Sheep

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The forest service is kicking grazing sheep out of Idaho’s Payette National Forest because they give bighorns pneumonia. Ranchers don’t buy it. It’s like the reverse of the Yellowstone Buffalo brucellosis drama.

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