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Wild Cam: Human activity blocks African wild dog dispersal
Human structures and roadways present some of the largest barriers to the connectivity of endangered African wild dog populations in southern Africa. Researchers set out on a vast multi-country study to track what happened to ...
Wild Cam: Costa Rica’s black panthers and elusive bush dogs
Ongoing research using trail cameras in Costa Rica’s mountains has revealed the presence of elusive bush dogs as well as why some populations of large felids, like tiger cats and jaguars, might more often have ...
Wild Cam: Managing Arabian oryx
... sought them out to raise captive populations. Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx) were officially considered extinct in the wild in 1972, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature—the last wild oryx was shot in ...
Wild Cam: Asian wild dogs’ diet may aid their conservation
TWS member Jan Kamler has been hot on the trail of the packs of dholes he’s been studying for years in Southeast Asia. Sometimes trekking for months through the rainforests and mountains of Laos and ...
Wild Cam: Species shift active time in cities
For urban wildlife, adapting to city life means changing the times of day when they would usually be active in more natural settings. “In order for species to function within novel ecosystems, we know some ...
Wild Cam: Where do sloth bears den?
For centuries, the dance industry was one of the biggest threats to sloth bears in India. But it had nothing to do with the waltz or two-step. After poachers killed cubs’ mothers in the wild, ...
Wild Cam: Island spotted skunks may need protection
... to spraying, an alarmed skunk will stomp its feet and rise up on its front legs. [aesop_image img="https://wildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Island-spotted-skunks-2.jpg" panorama="off" credit="Credit: Ellie Bolas" align="center" lightbox="on" captionsrc="custom" captionposition="left" revealfx="inplaceslow" overlay_revealfx="off"] “It’s pretty amazing when you release it, ...
Wild Cam: Lack of water drives key deer toward domestication
A lack of natural water sources as a result of climate change may be driving an endangered subspecies of white-tailed deer found only in the Florida Keys toward domestication. If wildlife managers don’t stop residents ...
Wild Cam: Tracking cheetah survival in Zambia
Researchers spent years living in the bush to learn more about cheetah populations in a massive wilderness area
Wild Cam: Unearthing bilbies’ benefits
Bilbies may look like rabbits, but that’s where the similarity ends. In Australia, where the marsupials are native, the government has spent enormous amounts of money to control invasive rabbits. A social media campaign even ...
Wild Cam: Human development limits giant anteater populations
... behind their body as they travel through the forests and savannas of South and Central America. [aesop_image img="https://wildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/giant-anteaters-2.jpg" panorama="off" credit="Credit: Alessandra Bertassoni and Fapesp Project 13/04957-8" align="center" lightbox="on" captionsrc="custom" captionposition="left" revealfx="inplaceslow" overlay_revealfx="off"] Besides the basics, ...
Wild Cam: Humans curtail Burmese mammal diversity
Sun bears, Asiatic golden cats and pig-tailed macaques may sound like an exotic wildlife assemblage to many westerners, but these mammals play important roles in Myanmar’s ecosystems. However, many of those animals found in the ...
Wild Cam: Exploring the mammals of Equatorial Guinea
When most people think of mammals in Central Africa, the first thing that comes to mind are the massive charismatic species like elephants, giraffes, lions or hippos. But many wild parts of the region contain ...
Wild Cam: The Argentine deer that lost its migratory path
... [aesop_video src="youtube" id="MaNcb5YuH0w" align="center" disable_for_mobile="on" loop="on" controls="on" mute="off" autoplay="off" viewstart="off" viewend="off" show_subtitles="off" revealfx="inplaceslow" overlay_revealfx="off"] The Patagonian huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus), also known as the south Andean deer, are now celebrated in Chile, where they form one ...
Wild Cam: Mongolian wolves, marmots and a feral dog challenge
The wild montane regions of Mongolia are home to a diverse group of mammals, including ibex, one of the largest marmot species on the planet, furry Pallas’s cats and corsac foxes. But some of these ...
Wild Cam: Alligator snapping turtles doing well in Texas
... there in about 20 years. Suddenly, he found he had a good problem on his hands. He came across an alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) so big, his team struggled to pull it on shore ...
Wild Cam: Common insecticides may hamper shorebird migration
... embedded in farmland. The birds don’t directly eat the seeds. “We’re reporting the highest concentration in a wild bird that isn’t consuming treated seeds directly,” said TWS member Shelby McCahon, a master’s student in natural ...
Wild Cam: Shrub expansion draws moose northward
Jiake Zhou and three of his colleagues traveled 16 days on inflatable rubber boats in the northern Alaskan wilderness without seeing any other human, with nothing but a few guns and some pepper spray in ...