Month: December 2018

Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) stopping over in Florida while traveling north have declined 80 percent since 2005, according to a new study. The monarchs stop in Florida on their spring...

Officials believe red tide is likely behind the death of more than 22 bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncates) that washed up dead on Southwest Florida beaches last month. Officials with the...

Bustling cities like Chicago are not usually known for their wildlife, but Cooper’s (Accipiter cooperii) and sharp-shinned hawks (Accipiter striatus) have been establishing populations in the city. In Chicago, researchers...

Some 1.4 million white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) roam in Missouri today, but less than a century ago, their numbers had dwindled to the verge of extirpation. It would be understandable,...

A population of nonnative rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) introduced in central Florida is set to double by 2022 unless steps are taken to reduce it, biologists found. But dealing with...

The bearcam at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve is supposed to let viewers catch a live glimpse of brown bears (Ursus arctos) as they feed on sockeye salmon heading...

The presence of humans on trails — not the trails themselves — cause the most disturbance to forest birds, according to recent research. In a study published in Frontiers in...

The most recent National Climate Assessment was released last week. This second volume, “Impacts, Risks and Adaptation in the United States,” follows the report on climate change science released last...

New research explores the possibilities of a single species’ extinction triggering an “extinction domino effect.” Writing in Scientific Reports, researchers warn of extreme environmental change causing extinctions of plants and...

These updates originally appear in the Nebraska Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s November 2018 newsletter. Chadron State College Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society By: Travis Millikan, Student Chapter President...