The city of San Francisco, California, is known as a city for people who love food, or “foodies”. There are many award-winning restaurants. San Franciscans also love dogs. Chef Rahmi Massarweh is one of them, so he came up with the idea of Dogue.

The name of Dogue is like the word “vogue”, which means “fashion”. It opened in the city’s popular Mission District. Individual dishes cost around $30. Or, for $75 each, dogs can dine on a multi-course “good appetite” meal. The price also includes a baked food and a drink for the dog’s owner.

However, some people are expressing their concerns about the costly menu. They are noting some of the city’s issues, including income inequality, homelessness, and gentrification (地区贵族化). But Massarweh has received a lot of support from his customers. They are thankful to have a place to treat their best friend. Recently, Dogue held three dog birthday parties at the same time.

Many of Dogue’s first customers were actually dogs with allergies (过敏反应) that heavily limited their diets. Take Nikko, for example, a 4.5-year-old who has a sensitive stomach and was put on a doctor-ordered low-fat diet. Nikko’s owner, Sasa Dang, first heard about Dogue and decided to treat Nikko to one of the specialty meals. “He processed it very well, as measured by Nikko’s waste,” Dang said.

Some research shows that natural food may be better for a dog’s stomach than the dog food that you can buy in a store. Dogue’s goal is to spread the thought of feeding dogs fresh, healthy, and natural food. “It’s a simple philosophy,” Massarweh said. “Feed fresh, whole food that is in season and as close to its natural source as possible.” Massarweh also ensures the meals are properly balanced nutritionally and only include dog-safe materials. Massarweh said he enjoys seeing the joy that Dogue brings to its customers. “There’s something very unique and satisfying about that.”

A rare butterfly has been discovered in Britain for the first time in 60 years, having moved from Eastern Europe. The only previous record of a wild yellow-legged Tortoiseshell in Britain was in 1953, when it was seen just once in Sevenoaks, Kent. Several weeks ago, there were already four confirmed sightings, along the East coast in Norfolk, Suffolk and Kent, and six further reports of the butterfly in coastal areas. Conservationists are very excited about the sightings, which are rare in the butterfly world.

The butterflies are thought to have flown on easterly winds across Europe in the last few weeks. The large and colourful insect mainly lives in Eastern Europe. In recent years, it has spread into Scandinavia and its number increases rapidly during warm weather. Also known as the Scarce Tortoiseshell, it has an orange and blue colour and is about one third bigger than our own Small Tortoiseshell.

Butterfly Conservation was starting its annual Big Butterfly Count, a yearly survey of the butterflies across the nation. Sir David Attenborough, President of the charity, said, “The UK is a nation of amateur naturalists and we have a proud tradition of celebrating and studying our wildlife. By taking part in the Big Butterfly Count this summer, you can contribute to discovering the fantastic butterflies and other wildlife that share your garden, parks and countryside.” He added, Butterflies fought back last year after a terrible 2012 but despite this, butterflies' number was still below average. Three quarters of the UK's butterflies are in decline and one third are in danger of dying out. This is bad news for the UK's birds, bees, bats and other wildlife.

Fat is an important part of all living things and most body fat in animals and people is white. White fat allows people to eat more than they need when food is enough. It stores those extra calories until food becomes short. 【小题1】

Hibernation(冬眠) can help animals get through the cold winter. They feed themselves on much food in fall in preparation for a long and cold winter. Animals don’t eat when they are hibernating. 【小题2】 To spend an entire winter, these animals enter a state called torpor(不活泼), where they use the white fat more slowly than they usually do.

When in torpor, it seems that animals have been sleeping. But torpor goes much deeper than that. In fact, animals’ activities slow down in torpor. 【小题3】 An animal may take several breaths and then stop breathing for several minutes. Instead of wasting energy to keep warm, bodies in torpor can remain just above freezing. 【小题4】 Every week or two, they will wake up. They stay awake for a day or so before going back into torpor. The time is different in different species. What causes the wake-up or why it happens is unclear. However, all true hibernating animals go through this cycle.

In order to wake up during the hibernation, these animals have to warm their bodies. 【小题5】 This process burns up white fat. And not only on hibernating animals, the warming process has the same influence also on humans, Ballinger explains.