Posted inNature, Schools

Hear those hyenas

Berkeley is full of surprises. Count me as a relative newcomer to the city (five years), but I had no idea there was a colony of hyenas in the Berkeley hills. They aren’t running wild, of course. They are part of the Berkeley Field Station for the Study of Behavior, Ecology and Reproduction. They’re the […]

Posted inNosh

Bring back Honey the goat

It caused shockwaves yesterday in the Twittersphere — Honey the goat who lives at Tilden Little Farm (left) had been stolen. As the Berkeley Voice reported yesterday, the 16-year-old Swiss Alpine milking goat was nabbed from her pen in the Berkeley hills Thursday night. “I hope that whoever took her had good intentions and brought […]