Horse breeder Denny Pietranduono explains how he introduced breeding horse to students at Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, and how they picked up the routine of breeding horses
Farming and raising horses isn’t something people often associate with Chicago. When two race horses named Vega and Calling Card took up residence at the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, students helped care for them.
The Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences (“CHSAS”) is a public secondary magnet school opened in 1985 by the Chicago Public Schools as a unique, experimental high school devoted to teaching agricultural science to urban students. The school is located on a 72-acre campus with 40 acres
dedicated to a working farm. The school was built on the site of the last farm to survive within the Chicago city limits. Students commute from all across the city to CHSAS.
All students are members of the FFA (formerly Future Farmers of America).
FLASHBACK: Coyote sighted at Memory Gardens Cemetery on East Euclid Avenue in Arlington Heights on Saturday, November 20, 2010. A map below shows the distance from reported coyote attack on April 2, 2012 in Eastman Court.
Aurora police are warning residents to be alert to the signs of coyotes and publishing advice on how to keep neighborhoods from becoming neighborhoods a desirable location for coyotes to venture.
The warnings were published on April 27, 2012, one week after an Aurora man was bitten by a coyote in the 1200 block of Cottonwood Drive on April 20, 2012. The bite did not cause serious injury.
The fact that a human was bitten could be a sign that coyotes are too comfortable in the neighborhood and could become a threat. Normally coyotes keep their distance from humans, but when food becomes available, they can move in to a neighborhood and become more aggressive.
A 200-pound black bear that wandered onto the University of Colorado campus has been relocated to the nearby Rocky Mountains.
A black bear in a tree was tranquilized and dropped onto a mat from a tree after it was roaming around campus at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The black bear was about three-to-five years-old and about 200 pounds.
The bear was released somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. Black Bears in the North America are the smallest and most common on the continent. Adult males are larger than females and usually weigh up to about 550 pounds. Some are known to weigh up to 800-to-1,000 pounds.
Black Bears east insects — even bees and yellow-jackets, salmon, dandelions. They are known to prey on deer in some areas.
Black Bear attacks of humans have been fatal, but human survivability is increased by fighting back.
A dramatic video showing 30 beached dolphins being rescued by beachgoers in Brazil has become an internet sensation.
Video shows 30 beached dolphins being rescued on the Rio de Janeiro state coastline on Monday, March 5, 2012. Beachgoers dragged the dolphins by their tails into deeper water to save them from their stranded position in shallow beach water.
Full video on Jukinvideo.com.
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VIDEO of animal tracks discovered on the north side of Arlington Heights on Monday, February 27, 2012 showing a large pawprint that is wider than long in a ‘direct register’ gait with long stride.
Cougar sightings were reported in Lake Forest in October 2011, and a stray cougar was shot in Chicago in 2008. That makes the discovery of these animal tracks in Arlington Heights very interesting.
The video (above) shows animal tracks that were discovered Monday, February 27, 2012 about 2:00 p.m. The stride of the tracks measures a distance of over three feet. According to A Field Guide to Mammal Tracking in Western America (page 45), the stride of a mountain lion is 40 inches. The tracks might have been double tracks representing the animal’s forefoot and hindfoot strike into the snow in approximately the same area. This gives the look of one huge pawprint. Cougars are known to walk with their hind feet directly landing inside where their front feet landed. The gait is called direct register, and is especially used by cougars when moving in deep snow. However, dogs are also known to move in a direct register gait.
The length of the pawprint or pawprints area was about 4-5 inches front-to-back and almost eight inches wide. Mountain lions and cougars are known to have paw prints that are wider than their length, or more round than egg-shaped like a coyote or dog. What’s remarkable about the tracks is how large the animal must have been to have a stride of over three feet without being in a run or gallop.
Buffalo Grove police relayed a report from a resident that there was a coyote roaming around St. Mary’s Pkwy and Hiawatha on Tuesday morning. The resident wanted people be aware of this in case they have small animals (dogs/cats/etc.) outside.
Sightings and inquiries about coyotes by our residents have increased over the past few years. If you see a coyote, do not run. Instead, make yourself look as big as possible by raising your hands over your head while yelling, and stomp your feet. The coyote will typically jog or run away from you. If not, the coyote might have learned that the loud noises will not hurt them, and they will often just sit and watch you. If this is the case, simply back away and leave the area. If you are walking your dog during an encounter, keep the dog’s leash short and leave the area. However, it is possible that the coyote might follow you until you leave its territory. If your dog gets into a fight with a coyote, do not try to separate them with your hands, but use a stick or throw something. To find out more information on the coyotes in our area, visit coyotes. An informational flyer is also available at the Buffalo Grove Police Department.
– Buffalo Grove Police
Coyote sighted on November 20, 2010 near Rand Road and Euclid Avenue.
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