MORGANTOWN -- Tre Mitchell spent most of Thanksgiving Day vomiting due to a stomach bug running through the WVU men’s basketball team and not because he had some bad turkey and dressing. Having overcome that obstacle, Mitchell has since come back to form, and just maybe so have the ...
I know hunting season is drawing to a close, but last week I wrote about deer vision, and one of my readers wrote and asked why I haven’t written about another sense that deer have … their nose. Here is a little bit about a complex subject. Has this ever happened to you when hunting? On a cold November morning a hunter walks to his tree stand before daylight. He sits all day and sees nothing, but he knows there is a big buck in the area so the next morning he goes again. He notes the wind and enters the stand on a different path than the one he took the morning before. He sits ...
MORGANTOWN -- Tre Mitchell’s power move through the paint was cut off Friday night, and so the WVU forward went strictly to his instincts. Or, in this case, Mitchell simply flipped the ball up over his head from just a couple of feet in front of the rim and it went in. As the ...
Years ago one of my graduate students was taking imprinted wild turkeys into the field to see what they ate. Often I’d tag along. Several times I noticed that the poults (about 10 weeks of age) would stop and look into the sky then seek cover. At first I thought they were spotting hawks in the air, but I never saw one. Then one day I realized they were seeing jet planes 30,000 feet up. Amazing. It turns out that turkeys have very good vision and detect movements really well. Their eyes are at the side of their head and each eye is constantly on the lookout for ...
MORGANTOWN -- If anyone out there has about $40 or $50 million simply lying around, the WVU athletic department would like to speak with you very soon. That’s the projected amount it’s going to cost WVU as it moves forward with potential changes in the athletic department, beginning ...
MORGANTOWN -- The hot November days have really impacted the bow deer season. Bucks are rutting and does are ready, but the abnormal hot weather has impacted their movement in the day. Harvests are being made, but those big bucks just aren’t moving much during the day. One rule of thumb: I always used the temperature at night. When the temperature got below 45 or so, I found that buck movements in November increased and sightings did, too. I had friends in Kansas two weeks ago hunting on private land where big bucks are common, yet the hot weather really limited ...
