10/29/16
How do horses, dolphins, bulls and baby chicks fly? →
Animals
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08/16/16
A monkey, missed meals and a record-setting week for TSA firearm "finds" at airport checkpoints. →
08/06/15
I’ve had the honor of filling in for the vacationing Ben Mutzabaugh at USA TODAY’s Today in the Sky section the past few days. Here are just two of the 18 stories I posted in his space over five days. Animals on Duty at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport This baby burro – named “Butch” in honor →
12/10/14
The ancient sport of falconry is so popular in the Middle East that many commercial airlines in that region allow passengers to bring trained hunting raptors into the main cabin, where the birds travel on a handler’s heavy cuff or tied to an adjacent seat. “If falconers tried that in the states, people would get →
01/19/14
Southwest Air & others urged to cut SeaWorld ties →
02/24/13
Horseback riding at an airport? You bet! Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) has a volunteer mounted security patrol – the Airport Rangers – made up of people who ride their horses along the perimeter of the 13,000 acre airport. It’s a great win-win arrangement: in return for helping to monitor all that airport land, the →
10/23/12
Looks like there was a good ending to a story that started with a passenger’s tweet about spotting a kangaroo hopping around on the fifth floor of a parking garage at Australia’s Melbourne Airport. According to news reports, a wildlife officer was able to shoot the kangaroo with a tranquilizer gun and the animal spent →
09/14/12
Goats do it in San Francisco. Now sheep are doing it in Atlanta. As part of a pilot project, 100 grazing sheep (plus a few goats) are hard at work this week eating invasive plants such as kudzu on property belonging to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The sheep are hired from Ewe-niversally Green and are →
03/14/12
Cute alert: animal auditions for Frontier Airlines tail position →