Friday Ark #123 is now boarding and will continue doing so through the weekend, so visit often for a growing list of links to animal photos and news.

Via Biomes Blog comes deer in the yard.  Go take a look at it and read the explanations.  Talk about a fantastic experience with all those deer being so friendly, so neighborly even.  The photos say it all.  Wow!

Climate change isn’t the only reason we need to take immediate action on pollution.  “Children who live near a major highway are not only more likely to develop asthma or other respiratory diseases, but their lung development may also be stunted. According to a study that will appear in the February 17 issue of The Lancet and now available online, researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) found that children who lived within 500 meters of a freeway, or approximately a third of a mile, since age 10 had substantial deficits in lung function by the age of 18 years, compared to children living at least 1500 meters, or approximately one mile, away.”