Tag: mortality

Even though there are no are no management plans or harvest limits for bobcats in the Black Hills of South Dakota, researchers don’t know much about how the populations—particularly kittens—are...

Lead poisoning has contributed to an unusually high number of California condor mortalities this year. The Ventana Wildlife Society, a nonprofit organization involved in restoring the endangered species, reports that...

A new surveillance system in California may help identify unusual patterns of wildlife illness and death as they unfold by tapping into data from wildlife rehabilitation organizations across the state....

White-tailed deer that disperse to new areas have similar rates of mortality as those that stay put, researchers found. That wasn’t what they expected to discover. They figured dispersal would...

An analysis of more than three decades of necropsy data show that vehicle collisions and lead poisoning are the main causes of death for Michigan bald eagles. The Michigan Department...

As gray wolf populations rose in Idaho, hunters became concerned about what those predators on the landscape might mean for elk numbers. As researchers looked into it, they found a...

Could whistles deter bats from hitting wind turbines? Could loudspeakers keep eagles away? Those were two of the techniques proposed at the 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America...

When New Mexico removed desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis mexicana) from the state’s list of threatened and endangered species, biologists had a pretty good sense of what caused adult sheep...

Giving someone the “silent treatment” during courtship might not be the best strategy for romance. But new research shows hoary bats (Lasiurus cinereus) fly with little or no echolocation at all as...

How does hunting affect where gray wolves (Canis lupus) bring up their pups? A new study from Idaho suggests that despite the presence of hunters, wolves rear their offspring in...