Month: May 2020

Avoiding fieldwork amid the COVID-19 pandemic can have long-lasting impacts on research. Missing measurements can scuttle long-term projects. Interrupting experiments can change them altogether. Can researchers conduct fieldwork without putting...

It’s a tale of two wombats. Down to fewer than 200 individuals, the northern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus krefftii) is listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of...

Bats have evolved an intrinsic immunity to coronaviruses that stops them from getting sick, though they still carry the disease. New research shows that the coronavirus that causes Middle East...

While stay-at-home orders have prompted lots of people to take up new hobbies, “rock juggling” is old hat for otters. But why? According to researchers at the University of Exeter,...

For bald eagles nesting close to the shores of the Great Lakes, high chemical levels — including compounds previously found in the species and new or emerging ones — may...

COVID-19 has affected everyone, and wildlifers are no exception. In this series, TWS is looking at challenges facing the profession due to the pandemic. Measures to contain the novel coronavirus...

TWS member Jason Suckow has been named the new director of Wildlife Services’ National Wildlife Research Center in Fort Collins, Colorado. Suckow — a Certified Wildlife Biologist — spent his...

For the first time since 1876, a wild bison calf has been born on the landscape of what is now Wanuskewin Heritage Park, an Indigenous-run conservation area in Saskatchewan. The...

Measures to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus have had mixed results on global wildlife poaching. Restrictions on movement and tighter border security have reduced the transportation of illegal...

The winds of change blow strongly on the toepads of lizards most frequently caught in the paths of hurricanes. A new study on nearly 200 anole species across the Caribbean...