Category: TWS Wildlife News

Researchers looking to decode sparrow songs have discovered that birds respond in a similar way humans do to sound patterns. “It has been known for a while in the swamp...

Roads and fences can be dangerous for wildlife, accounting for a large number of deaths every year across North America. Conservationists have also long pointed to habitat fragmentation as a...

A helicopter flew close to the ground in Krueger National Park, South Africa, executing a series of aerial acrobatics in order to steer the herd of African buffalo (Syncerus caffer)...

Hold on to your ruby red slippers, Dorothy. Mother Nature may have her own tornado-warning system. Just days before a series of tornadoes hit the Central and Southern United States...

Researchers have confirmed the way a lethal fungal disease has laid waste to huge populations of North American bats. “This model is exciting for us, because we now have a...

On Sulawesi, an island in central Indonesia, Jim McGuire searched for Limnonectes larvaepartus, a small species of fanged frog with a unique strategy for reproduction. McGuire, a herpetologist with the...

During the winter of 2013-14, scientists and the public throughout the eastern states were amazed – and often delighted – by an almost unprecedented influx of snowy owls. Snowy owls...

The bird with the world’s longest known migration route, a tiny minnow that inhabits Texan rivers, and the wolves that once roamed over wide stretches of the continent are among...

Free-roaming domestic cats (Felis catus) are widely understood to have substantial negative impacts on wildlife. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists cats among the world’s worst...

Flying dragons in Borneo adopt Christmas colors to mimic the red and green hues of falling leaves in an effort to hide from predatory birds, according to new research. But...