Thelonious Munk sits down for an alfresco meal at a wooden table. He eagerly picks up a taco prepared with a walnut flour tortilla, which he sniffs before taking a few nibbles. He lingers for a bit ...

For the past two summers, I have spent time as the personal servant to a couple of (according to one scholarly source) "semi-fossorial sciurids" -- members of the squirrel family that spend some of ...

Christian Cotroneo is the social media editor at Treehugger. He is a founding editor at HuffPost Canada, and former writer at The Dodo and Toronto Star. At first glance, it's easy to mistake a ...