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November 20: Why Do Animals Have White Butts?

7/29/2024

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Title image with a photo of two bighorn sheep in front of a snowy Wyoming mountain landscape
Monday, November 20, 2006

I’m sitting in Salt Lake City Airport. I flew out of Jackson at 7:20 p.m., got here around 8:00. I’m flying out at 11:45. 


I’m tired. I was awake at 6:00 a.m. Up at 7:00. Left by 9:15 with Wes and Isaiah. We spent the day in town. 

At the post office, I saw a white bulldog. He was waiting to be adopted. His lower jaw was broken and he had a bar around it. He was an interesting-looking dog and very friendly. I would have adopted him. 

There was a service dog on the flight from JAC to SLC.

I’m getting too emotional. I almost cried when I left Wes and Isaiah. I hugged them both and felt better.

We brought my car into town today and it will overwinter at the town shop.

On the way into town, we saw bighorn sheep. I got some pictures.

I want to know why so many animals have light-colored, often white or yellow-orange, backsides.
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Jill Hames is a writer, musician, and ESL teacher who, at the age of four, said she wanted to learn every language in the world. She hasn’t managed that yet, but is proud to have taught herself enough Swahili to understand context from native speakers. She has a B.A. in Music and Spanish, a Masters in Library and Information Science, is TEFL.org 168-hour certified to teach English as a second language, and is working towards a Master of Divinity.

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