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Jan Tait and the Bear

@jantaitopera.bsky.social

Sharing news about bears, butter, and bunions as we fundraise for Jan Tait and the Bear, an animated chamber opera based on a medieval Shetland folktale. More info: https://emilydoolittle.com/jantait

100 Followers 356 Following 67 Posts Joined Nov 2024

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2 months ago

SHOPPING SHEEP news!

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3 months ago

Hightailing along high streets and raiding ponds: otters’ revival in Britain Still rare only 20 years ago, the charismatic animals are in almost every UK river and a conservation success story

URBAN OTTER news! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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3 months ago

Doughnut-stealing raccoon is Toronto's response to #Pizzarat | CBC News After a pizza-carrying rat in New York City’s subway system found fame earlier this year, a Toronto critter is having its own moment in the spotlight after stealthily descending from a coffee-shop cei...

DONUT-THIEF RACCOON news! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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3 months ago

Are raccoons – AKA trash pandas – really evolving into cute pets? One theory says yes | Helen Pilcher Known for bold raids on urban bins, raccoons are becoming more domesticated – so how they look will gradually change, says science writer Helen Pilcher

(future) PET RACCOON news! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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5 months ago

‘You’re going about your day and suddenly see a little Godzilla’: Bangkok reckons with a giant lizard boom Viral videos have shifted public opinion about water monitors, long held in contempt in Thai culture, even as rising numbers of the reptiles pose problems for residents

GIANT LIZARD news! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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6 months ago

Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of German apartments turns out to be a slug People suspected teenagers playing ding dong ditch and called police, who found animal crawling on the door panel

PRANKSTER SLUG news! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

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6 months ago

GANNET and WHALE FABLES!

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6 months ago

The Gannet and the Whale (May 24, 2025, Rethinking Fables) YouTube video by Kaori Nagai

A collaboration between me, @amsouth.bsky.social & Lesley Harrison, performed at @rethinkingfable.bsky.social (www.rethinking-fables.org.uk). Lesley & Alex weave together pieces by me and Alex and a poem by Lesley to create a new fable, "The Gannet and the Whale". www.youtube.com/watch?v=r55d...

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7 months ago

A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia

FIERY FISH NEWS! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/w...

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7 months ago

Rogue bears' honey supply replenished by community in Devon The boss of a wildlife park where two bears escaped and gorged on honey thanks people for donations.

BEARS AND HONEY NEWS! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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7 months ago

The Yorkshire mega-rat: a 22-inch rodent and the great global rat crisis of 2025 This latest specimen is even bigger than the Dorset mega-rat of 2018 – and just one sign of a problem that keeps growing ...

GIANT RAT news! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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7 months ago

Supersized stick insect discovered in high-altitude trees in Australia The 40cm-long insect, named Acrophylla alta, weighs slightly less than a golf ball and may be the heaviest insect in Australia

GIANT STICK INSECT news! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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7 months ago

London library forced to briefly close after fox 'made itself comfortable' inside Foxes have been known to live everywhere in London from back gardens to the top of the Shard

LITERARY FOX news! www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

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10 months ago

Giant prehistoric kangaroos preferred to ‘chill at home’ and didn’t like to go out much, scientists say Fossil teeth show species of protemnodon that roamed Australia between 5m and 40,000 years ago lived and died near Queensland caves

GIANT PREHISTORIC KANGAROO news! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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10 months ago

I just love people who have wild, zany ideas *and carry them through!*

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10 months ago

Man sets off on Nidderdale walk dressed as a curlew Matt Trevelyan made the Eurasian curlew costume out of polystyrene and bamboo.

GIANT CURLEW COSTUME news! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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11 months ago

Boris Johnson yells 'f***ing hell' after ostrich attacks him on family holiday The former PM yelped: 'Christ! F***ing hell!'

BITEY OSTRICH news! metro.co.uk/2025/04/07/b...

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1 year ago

Flamstead hawk takes 91-year-old's hat twice in a week A bird that has been terrorising Hertfordshire villagers claims two hats from a 91-year-old's head.

HAT-STEALING HAWK news! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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1 year ago

Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice Genetically modified mice have traits geared towards cold tolerance, in step towards modifying elephants

WOOLLY MOUSE news! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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1 year ago

MEDIAEVAL RECORDER-PLAYING DRAGON art!

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1 year ago

I’m obsessed with fish that clean other fish: they remember their clients, much like a hairdresser I’m campaigning for legal protection for cleaner fish, because no one has done a proper assessment of the impact of removing them from Scottish reefs

CLEANER FISH news! "they remember their clients, much like a hairdresser"!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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1 year ago

Seal seeks sanctuary in New Haven streets New Haven Police found a male grey seal in Mill River on Sunday and transported it to the Mystic Aquarium.

MYSTERY SEAL news (the seal is ok): yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/02...

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1 year ago

Aesculapian snake: Britain has a new snake species – should it be allowed to stay? If follows two cases of accidental introductions

SNAKE news! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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1 year ago

Badger admiring art wins wildlife photographer of the year public vote Ian Wood wins Natural History Museum’s people’s choice award with photo taken in St Leonards-on-Sea

ARTISTIC BADGER news! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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1 year ago

MUSICAL ANIMAL news!

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1 year ago

How pointy shoes created a moral panic in medieval London Shoes seen as demonic and vain were blamed for making men

Medieval BUNION-CAUSING-SHOES news! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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1 year ago

Beeston: 'Why does a plate of bananas keep appearing on our street?' A plate of bananas is placed in a street on the same day every month - but no-one knows why.

MYSTERY BANANA news! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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1 year ago

How polar bears stop ice from freezing on their fur Indigenous peoples of the Arctic traditionally use polar bear fur for its ice-resistant properties, but the science behind the bears’ natural antifreeze hasn't been studied until now

POLAR BEAR news! www.newscientist.com/article/2466...

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1 year ago

NOISY FROG news!

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1 year ago

Decade-long pine martens conservation project reaches milestone The project marks bringing100 animals from Scotland to Gloucestershire, Devon and Wales.

PINE MARTEN news! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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