TWS member Janelle Chojnacki honored for outstanding achievement
TWS member Janelle Chojnacki, a graduate student at Humboldt State University, won the 2021 California State University Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement. The award recognizes students for their superior academic...
Florida panthers, bears may lose protected habitat by 2070
Urban development and sea level rise will lead to increasing habitat fragmentation for panthers and bears in in coming decades—unless efforts are made to set aside key movement corridors for...
Oil-soaked birds reported in wake of Hurricane Ida
Louisiana wildlife officials have documented a growing numbers of oil-soaked birds in the wake of a refinery that spilled crude oil after being flooded during Hurricane Ida. The Associated Press...
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Mind-altering parasite makes hyena cubs bolder
Hyena cubs infected with the toxoplasma parasite, commonly found in domestic cats, become bolder in the face of lions, resulting in higher death rates. Toxoplasma gondii is the parasite that...
Stephen F. Austin Chapter earns award second year in a row
The Stephen F. Austin State University Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society won the Student Chapter of the Year award for the second consecutive year. “To our chapter, I think...
New wide-eyed boa discovered in Dominican Republic
For the first time in more than a century, researchers have discovered a new boa species in the Dominican Republic. The Hispaniolan vineboa (Chilabothrus ampelophis) was discovered in a mountainous...
Weaving Indigenous knowledge into the North American Model
For many wildlife biologists in the United States and Canada, the approach to wildlife management is embodied by the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation—a concept that wildlife is held...
Wide-ranging snakes need more than small nature preserves
Smaller sized nature preserves may not be large enough for even some of the smaller animals they’re meant to protect. New research tracking the movements of timber rattlesnakes in a...
Hummingbirds use smell to avoid danger
Hummingbirds are pretty small, but they have an outsize sense of smell that helps them forage and stay out of danger. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside experimented with...
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