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:
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National Llama Day
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Perseid meteor shower over Nevada
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Bridge of Hillsborough County
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New Year s Eve in Sydney, Australia
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Celebrating whales—and a whale of a tale
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Astronomy Day
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Great gray owls in their nest, Finland
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European Day of Parks
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200th anniversary of Brazilian independence
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International Day of the Worlds Indigenous Peoples
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Prayer flags in Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan
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Celebrating the Acadians
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It s World Poetry Day
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Merry Christmas!
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San Francisco Bay salt flats
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The moai you know
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Wildebeest on the move
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World Whale Day
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Dark skies over New Mexico
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Why you should thank a nurse today
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Nothing plain about it
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Museum Night in Berlin
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Keyholes to the kingdom
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Necropolis of Dargavs
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Quebec City for Winter Carnival
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Borovets ski resort in Bulgaria
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International Tea Day
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Bohemian waxwings in Canada
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European river otter, Netherlands
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A bridge of Madison County
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