Shar Pei Dog Information The Shar Pei, or Chinese Shar-Pei, is a breed of dog known for its distinctive features of deep wrinkles and a blue-black tongue. The breed comes from China. The English name probably derived from British spelling of the Cantonese equivalent, sā pèih) translates to "sand skin" and refers to the texture [...]
Jack Russell Terrier Dog Information The Jack Russell Terrier is a small terrier that has its origins in fox hunting; it is principally white-bodied and smooth, rough or broken-coated. It is commonly confused with the Parson Russell terrier (see the American Kennel Club) and the Russell terrier, which is a shorter-legged, stockier variety. (Within the [...]
Newfoundland Dog Information The Newfoundland is a large working dog. Newfoundlands can be black, brown, white and black (called Landseer) or gray. However, in Canada, the country of their origin, the only correct colours are black (including black with white markings) and white and black (Landseer). They were originally bred and used as a working [...]
Golden Retriever Dog Information The Golden Retriever is a large-sized breed of dog bred as gun dogs to retrieve shot waterfowl such as ducks and upland game birds during hunting and shooting parties, and were named 'retriever' because of their ability to retrieve shot game undamaged. Golden Retrievers have an instinctive love of water, and [...]
How to Sea Turtles Find Where They Were Born? For loggerhead sea turtles, home is where your (magnetic) heart is. After hatching on beaches around the world, these huge marine reptiles undertake multiyear, epic migrations at sea. Then, the turtles return to the exact spot where they were born to mate and lay their own [...]
What is a Black Panther? When Josie from Tucson, Arizona, asked us why National Geographic's Big Cat Week in December didn't feature black panthers, we thought we'd dispel a few myths about these fascinating felines for Weird Animal Question of the Week. First things first: A "black panther" is not its own species—it's an umbrella [...]
India Tigers Rebounding More money has been spent on tiger conservation than on preserving any other species in the world, yet wildlife biologists have been seemingly unable to stop the decline of the iconic big cat in the face of poaching and habitat loss. That appeared to change Tuesday, when the government of India—the country [...]
Porcupine Facts When Emily in Canada asked for help identifying what species of porcupine she photographed here in NatGeo's Your Shot, we turned to Uldis Roze of Queens College at the City University of New York, who wrote the book on porcupines. If you didn't know there were different species of porcupines, never fear. In [...]
Is Pollution Not Allowing Polar Bears to Mate? A new study finds a link between chemicals and bone loss that could damage males' penises, potentially harming reproduction. In the Arctic, pollutants banned from the U.S. in 1979 but still floating around the environment seem to be affecting the strength of polar bear penile bones, possibly [...]
Did Punxsutawney Phil See Shadow on Groundhog Day? It’s déjà vu all over again. On February 2, a groundhog (Marmota monax, if you please) named Phil will poke his head out of his burrow in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and look around, as he has for the past 128 years. February 2 is Groundhog Day. If Phil [...]