Tiger numbers throughout much of Asia are on the rise. The International Union for Conservation of Nature estimates between 3,726 and 5,578 tigers roam the continent. Those numbers are up about 40% from 2015. But …
African painted dogs are among the most endangered canids in the world. These predators range widely, albeit thinly, in various pockets of the continent in the wild. The largest contiguous ecosystem they roam in stretches …
Georgia is seeing a record number of nesting loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta). Biologists have counted more than 3,960 nests along the coast since May. That’s 10 more than the previous record set in 2019, …
While invasive species have a massive negative impact on native species and ecosystems around the world, one species stands out both in its overall impact to small wildlife and its pervasiveness. The Smithsonian Conservation Biology …
A new database provides researchers a central place to see what species have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans. This information can be useful for scientists to keep up to date …
As the climate changes, researchers often focus on how temperature may affect a species’ ability to survive. But survival isn’t the only concern. Changing temperatures could affect species’ ability to reproduce, and that could lead …
New Wildlife Monographs’s editor-in-chief Steeve Côté brings a new vision to the long-running journal. An ecology professor at Université Laval in Quebec, Côté has taken over the position previously held by Merav Ben-David, a professor …
When it comes to raising chicks, brown-headed cowbirds have a strategy that would infuriate helicopter parents—they let other species do it. Female cowbirds visit the nests of typically smaller songbirds to lay their own eggs …
When Daryl Ratajczak first moved out west to New Mexico from Tennessee, where he had worked for two decades, he was amazed by the wildlife and natural landscapes. He quickly came to the conclusion that …
Artificial light can be problematic for wildlife. Office lights can send migrating birds flying into the windows of skyscrapers. Turtle hatchlings can follow lights away from the sea instead of into it. But researchers say …
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