Recently the San Diego Humane Society took in the youngest black bear cub the group had ever rescued, an approximately 2-month-old cub that had arrived in April – weak, underweight, and alone.
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Recently the San Diego Humane Society took in the youngest black bear cub the group had ever rescued, an approximately 2-month-old cub that had arrived in April – weak, underweight, and alone.
A squirrel with a huge social media following was taken into custody last week and euthanized by New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation. The DEC said it had received reports of “unsafe housing of wildlife that could carry rabies and the illegal keeping of wildlife as pets.”
If the pair of hurricanes that just stormed through Florida and environs wasn’t biblical enough, now comes the wildlife – especially alligators. In the storms’ aftermath, humans are coming face to face with displaced gators in the debris and floodwaters.
The New York Times just dropped a new 6-part podcast called “Animal,” featuring writer Sam Anderson. Backed by the resources of the Times, the production goes out into the world – Iceland, Mexico, Japan – to teach us about animals and our relationship to them.
The ferruginous pygmy owl, found in the American Southwest and northern Mexico, once again enjoys the protection of the Endangered Species Act. Last month the US Fish and Wildlife Service restored the status of the little hooters after it lost those protections 17 years ago.
There’s one basic rule at Yellowstone National Park: Don’t mess with the wildlife. Do not feed, attempt to ride, pose for selfies, or even approach the animals. And definitely do not try to “help” a bison calf cross a river.
A lot of people in Utah are reporting wildlife sightings, especially of cougars that stray into town. The state’s Division of Wildlife Resources is getting so many calls that this week it asked everyone to relax: you needn’t report it every time you see a big cat.
Scientists are deploying all manner of tech to listen to (and even interpret) the sounds of wildlife. Will drones, artificial intelligence, and digital recorders lead us to “a zoological version of Google Translate”?
The odds are stacked against the tiny raptor known as the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl (Glaucidium brasilianum). The owl’s range in the US – in isolated chunks of the southernmost parts of Arizona and Texas – is under siege by development, invasive species, wildfires, and of course climate change.
