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After a four-year break, Red Walk at Central Huron Secondary School is back. Staff and students of CHSS made the 10-kilometre trek from Clinton to the Stanley…
After a four-year break, Red Walk at Central Huron Secondary School is back. Staff and students of CHSS made the 10-kilometre trek from Clinton to the Stanley…
Whitetail deer leaping. Photo: Conrad Kuiper, Creative Commons, some rights reserved May 13, 2021 — Few creatures move with more grace than deer. Martha Foley compares them to ballerinas. Curt Stager says there's a reason for that. As ballerinas often do, deer walk on their tip-toes. More specifically, they walk on tip-toenail. Two large "fingers" end in the halves of their cloven hooves. Another two fingers, known as dewclaws, hang above and behind the hoof. The fifth digit of the deer's ancestors has disappeared altogether. And what looks like a forearm or foreleg above the hooves is actu...