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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It’s Opening Day for Major League Baseball
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Feeling lazy? Today s your day.
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The Wave at Coyote Buttes
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Sunrise at Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
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It s World Poetry Day
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Lower Antelope Canyon, Arizona
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World Octopus Day
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Train crossing the Tadami River in Japan
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Penguin Awareness Day
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Via Krupp, Capri, Italy
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A memorial in Germany
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A good time in the Badlands
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Satellite image of sand and seaweed in the Bahamas
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Yosemite National Park anniversary
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Diwali
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A Eurasian lynx in Siberia
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Johnston Canyon in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
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Travel Sunday: Sintra, Portugal
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Shining like Klondike gold
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Camel thorn trees, Namib-Naukluft Park, Namibia
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Venice Skatepark, Los Angeles, California
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Engineering an artificial harbor in Normandy
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Native American Heritage Month
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Abbey Gardens in Bury St Edmunds, England
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Palazzo Zuccari, Rome
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Winter solstice
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World Frog Day
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Antarctica Day
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Row, row, row your gondola
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Sailing across the ice
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