When people talk about the ‘dog days of summer,’ they’re referring to the sultry, hot days of the season that sometimes seem to stretch on forever–just like those long legs on the star of today’s homepage. This is a maned wolf, also known as a ‘fox on stilts,’ and it’s the largest species of canid in South America. As a canid, it belongs to the same family as the domestic dog, wolf, and coyote, and we think it makes a fun spokescritter for summer’s ‘dog days.’
Summer’s in home stretch
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Incense making, Vietnam
-
World Giraffe Day
-
What the hay?
-
A path lain with petals
-
World Rainforest Day
-
Autumnal equinox
-
European hedgehog
-
Celebrating a Paris landmark
-
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
-
Celebrating 30 years of eye-opening images
-
Yi Peng Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand
-
Corfe gets creepy
-
Welcome to the Alien Egg Hatchery
-
Whangārei Falls in New Zealand
-
Cheers! It’s National Wine Day
-
Black grouses lekking
-
Jaguar in the Pantanal wetlands
-
What, no escalator?
-
Point Reyes National Seashore, California
-
Shark Awareness Day
-
South Padre Island, Texas
-
Once upon a time there was a bridge…
-
National Napping Day
-
Peña Roya beech forest, Moncayo Natural Park, Aragon, Spain
-
A little blue
-
The Great Blue Hole, Belize
-
Flamingos of the Chilean desert
-
Corona Arch near Moab, Utah
-
New Years Eve
-
Honoring those who served
Bing Wallpaper Gallery

