Month: August 2021

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...

Camera collars on adult female caribou have revealed that calf survival is low in the first few months of their lives in northern Quebec. “We know that they are more...

A colonial mindset can hamper wildlifers’ science or fieldwork in a number of ways without them even realizing it. When Madhusudan Katti and his co-authors recently published a paper examining...

When a newborn mammal first opens its eyes, it can already make sense of the world around it. If it’s never used its eyes before, how is that possible? In...

Long before the pet brought pythons to the Everglades or tegus to South Carolina, species still caught rides on ships that carried them to foreign continents. A common fixture on...

Sea otters translocated to new parts of the Pacific half a century ago have mostly burgeoned into healthy, sustaining populations despite having a nearly 90% death rate in some areas...

Not all amphibians cope the same way with deadly infectious diseases. While some apparently learn how to avoid dangerous exposures, others can be protected using something similar to a vaccination....

At a hearing held by the Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Subcommittee of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee last week, legislators expressed their support for the passage of Recovering America’s...

For Steve Demarais, putting wildlife science into practice has been the most important. That has meant closely tracking forestry treatments for decades of his career to figure out the best...

In the eastern Canadian Arctic and Greenland, Inuit have told stories for centuries of polar bears using rocks and blocks of ice to bludgeon walruses to death. Naturalists discounted such...