近距离内射合集

Editor鈥檚 note: New Mexicans love their animals. And they love animal stories.

Through the years, Journal photographers have shared with readers amazing images of animals  in the wild, at the zoo and sometimes in backyards, too. Today鈥檚 Centennial Sunday 鈥� one piece among a series to commemorate the Pepperday/Lang family鈥檚 100 years of owning the 近距离内射合集 鈥� features a few of the animal photos Journal photographers have taken through the years. Some photos were chosen for the stories they illustrated, while others were published merely for the enjoyment of a critter鈥檚 gaze.

Sparky on a hot wire

With little food and water in the mountains due to the ongoing drought, this year has again seen a large number of bears wandering into Albuquerque foraging for food.

The summer of 1989 was another such year, with frequent bear sightings in New Mexico鈥檚 urban areas. The most famous of these by far was the black bear that came to be known as Sparky. This 150-pound mama bear had been roaming the Northeast Heights looking for her 6-month-old male cub. Game and FIsh officers were called to capture her and eventually found her perched atop a utility pole. When tranquilized, she hit a transformer as she fell off the pole and was jolted by a 7,200-volt electrical current. 

She survived the 30-foot fall and burns, and ended up recuperating at the Rio Grande Zoo (now the ABQ BioPark Zoo.) She was reunited with her cub, and both mama bear and cub were released back into the wild.

Journal photographer Greg Sorber caught the dramatic moment she hit the transformer and received the powerful jolt of electricity. This photo was published on the front page of the Aug. 15, 1989, Journal and won multiple awards.

Flora: One of dozens of tiny survivors

Flora, a 3-year-old Chihuahua about to give birth to puppies, was one of more than 60 Chihuahuas rescued from a head-on crash between a van and a semitrailer near Vaughn in January 2023. 

Eighteen dogs died in the crash. While dozens were rescued, there was concern that some had escaped the van after the incident. Few others were found, however.

The dogs were believed to have been part of a puppy mill because of their poor condition 鈥� emaciated, fearful and covered with sores. After the crash, an urgent plea went out to local animal shelters to help house the crash victims. Several were pregnant and three were only a few days old. The plea was quickly answered, and shelters said they were able to place most of the dogs in foster homes. All of the dogs healthy enough ended up being adopted.

In this photo, Flora was being cared for in a foster home in Edgewood a few days after the accident. She was still fearful of open spaces and preferred to hide under furniture. 

This photo appeared on the front page of the Jan. 8, 2023, Journal with the story about the crash titled, 鈥淐hihuahua Crisis,鈥� written by Ollie Reed. The photographer, Eddie Moore, later recalled how Reed contacted him late in the afternoon to tell him about the story and said he needed a photo for the next day鈥檚 publication. Moore ended up driving down a winding, two-lane road to the foster home housing several of the tiny dogs, including Flora.

Lear鈥檚 story: A rescue mission from Canada

Arctic polar bear Lear beat the heat at the ABQ BioPark in this photo taken in the summer of 1997.

In 1986, as a cub, Lear had become a dangerous nuisance roaming the local landfills in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Then-近距离内射合集 publisher Tom Lang learned of the cub鈥檚 precarious future and stepped in by offering to transport the cub to the then-Rio Grande Zoo via the Albuquerque Publishing Co. jet.

Crews took the seats out of the plane to make room for the cub鈥檚 specially built crate. Lang piloted the plane that flew zoo officials to Canada to pick up the cub, who then made the zoo his home for the next 21 years.

Lear was soon joined by a partner, Linda. Two years later, two more cubs arrived at the zoo. Before his death in 2006, Lear was a favorite subject of Journal photographers due to his antics in the zoo pool.

King of the zoo 鈥� for awhile

African lion Kenya lounged on a wooden platform inside his habitat at the ABQ BioPark Zoo in February 2023. Kenya and his sister, Dixie, arrived at the zoo in 2016, and his roar could often be heard for blocks around the zoo in Southwest Albuquerque.

In March 2023, the siblings were moved to the Abilene Zoo in Texas so the Albuquerque zoo could update and modernize its Catwalk habitat. 

The new area, called Running Wild: Cheetahs and More, now features cheetahs, mountain lions, ocelots, snow leopards and more, but no lions. 

The new area has passageways and doors that allow the animals to move between different spaces to experience new sights and sounds.

A prickly subject for a portrait

This porcupine perched atop a tree was one of many animal images that graced Journal pages through the years. Eagles, owls and cranes were frequent subjects. Among the feathered flocks, a swan once appeared for a while. Four-legged critters included foxes, coyotes and beavers. 

This swath of nature through urban Albuquerque has provided photographers with opportunities to capture portraits of these interesting, often shy, subjects to share with Journal readers.

Surviving the fire

A deer peers at a photographer as it walks along a burned portion of State Road 4 near Bandelier National Monument on July 2, 2011. The area was burned to stop the Las Conchas Fire from reaching Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The fire started in the Santa Fe National Forest and tore through 150,000 acres, threatening the lab and destroying dozens of homes near Los Alamos.

Karen Moses is a former Journal editor and can be reached at kmoses@abqjournal.com.

Coming Sept. 6: How the Journal covered 9/11 with a historic Extra edition and sending teams of journalists to Ground Zero days after the attack.