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Well it isn't an unknown species to scientist but is largely unknown to the general public despite the fact that it is found throughout most oceans of the world. And its strange look had onlookers wondering what just washed up on their beach. The fish is quite large as you can see and has no teeth.

The fish is commonly called a Luvar. Strange name for a strange fish. The Luvar as it is called is not an abundant species but it is largely unknown due to its diet, which is mainly jellyfish. Not many fisherman use jellyfish for bait or have lures that mimic a jellyfish.

Just glad I could help clear up their delima in identifying this little known fish species.

Cougars are long gone from the East save a small isolated population in Florida. Right? Well maybe not. As soon as the "Eastern Cougar Subspecies" was declared extinct a cougar gets hit by a car in Connecticut. But that one was a wanderer from the Dakota's supposedly. Well what are we to make of this. A video taken by Bob Crone in Halifax County Virginia reportedly shows two young cougars. The video is very poor but the experts say it is clear enough to confirm that the two animals in the video are big cats and not house cats, bobcats!


Other than that all we can do is question and speculate. Apparently the animals were to small to be full grown cougars so speculation has them as two young cougars. This is a logical deduction since adult cougars are solitary and males usually kill each other if they cross paths.

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I will be the first to admit that these pictures aren't new. But they are impressive and I am sure there are a whole host of people that have not seen them yet. So take a look at the life and death drama play out in Yellowstone just like you see it on TV in Africa. OK so the paved road doesn't belong in Africa safaris but other than that... Enjoy the series of photos.


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The Gulf Council's Red Snapper Advisory Panel will meet January 13, 2012 at the Gulf Council Office - 2203 N. Lois Avenue, Suite 1100, Tampa, Florida. The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. Monday and conclude by 5 p.m.

The Advisory Panel will review updated red snapper catch data and other information from the Southeast Fisheries Science Center, along with Acceptable Biological Catch recommendations from the Standing and Special Reef Fish Scientific and Statistical Committee. Using this information, the Panel will provide the Council with recommendations for red snapper catch limits and targets.

So what can we expect for 2012. Will they come to their senses? Well actually very small incremental increase in limits have been speculated but the Gulf Council Holding Meeting On Friday The 13th can't be good!

CBS has documents that show the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF) at a minimium discussed using the covert operation "Fast and Furious" as a way to stir up controversy and promote an anti-second amendment agenda. Most of the news you MIGHT here on this is still going to be directed at how the fast and furious operation was wrong and ill concieved but that misses the bigger picture that should not be wasted on the national audiances that the major news outlets hold. The bigger issue here is that many of the Federal Gov't agencies are actively trying to destroy the US Constitution. Believe it or not there are still people out there that think BATF is "just trying to do its job" and that there isn't a war being waged against your Constitutional right to bear arms.

And the arguments surrounding the 2nd amendment are also muddied by those that support it. Most often citing the right to defend one self from criminals and pointing out how gun ownership protect law abiding citizens from armed thugs. But that is not what the 2nd amendment is about. The 2nd amendment, and it is second for a reason, is about ensuring that the citizen ARE armed so that Congress will do what it is suppose to do. And people that think "Our Goverenment" would never do stuff like Hitler or other tyrannts need to wake up and realize that they already are! Small steps at first but steps non-the-less, and they are headed in the wrong direction.

A jaguar was seen southeast of Tucson, Arizona and then the sighting was confirmed by the Game and Fish Dept. using DNA analysis of hair collected at the sighting location. The hunter didn't need this confirmation however as he got a darn good look at the big cat. He was hunting cougar in the area using dogs to track and tree the prey. But instead of finding a treed cougar he found a jaguar up in the mesquite tree. Jaguars are protected and he packed up his dogs and vacated the area without harming the jaguar.

Before leaving he snapped some pictures and based on those images it is believed the jaguar is an adult male and in good health. The pictures will be compared to other jaguars that have been spotted in the area and by comparing spot patterns they will be able to determine if this is an additional jaguar or one that has been spotted before.

Although jaguars are native to this part of the US and are federally protected not a whole lot has been done to get them back into the area. The logic behind the fed's lack of attention is because they say the US is only marginal habitat and not critical to the species survival or something along those lines. Numerous advocacy groups have unsuccessfully pushed to have a jaguar recovery plan implemented.