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August 18, 2022

Wildlife Vocalizations: Tania Homayoun

Wildlife Vocalizations is a collection of short personal perspectives from people in the field of wildlife sciences. I spent most of my childhood running around in the woods, loving nature...

August 9, 2022

New database tracks coronavirus in wildlife

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...

August 5, 2022

Student Wildlife Adventure Program wins Diversity Award

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...

July 29, 2022

JWM: Trail cameras can help scientists estimate elephant density

At a shoulder height of nearly eight feet, an elephant may seem easy to spot. But these giant mammals are surprisingly cryptic in the forest ecosystems they occupy. As a...

July 27, 2022

Coronavirus likely first spread to humans through wildlife market

COVID-19 almost certainly passed to humans in a Wuhan wildlife market at the end of 2019, according to a pair of new studies published in Science that used Chinese samples...

July 1, 2022

Watch: Oregon wildlife gets into a jam

Land managers invest millions of dollars annually to place large pieces of wood back into streams to improve fish habitat. But little has been known about how these log jams...

June 30, 2022

Avian flu takes surprising toll in the wild

Avian influenza has led to the deaths of tens of millions of chickens and turkeys in the U.S., but for wildlife biologists, the flu’s impacts on wild bird populations are...

June 9, 2022

Humans may pass gut microbes to urban wildlife

Urban wildlife have some things in common with their human neighbors. Not only do they prowl the same streets—and maybe eat the same pizza. The life inside them—the microbes that...

May 20, 2022

Wildlife Vocalizations: Kaitlin Will

Wildlife Vocalizations is a collection of short personal perspectives from people in the field of wildlife sciences. Many people plan out their lives—what they think should happen and when. I...

May 10, 2022

TWS2021: AI image recognition could be the future of wildlife management

Image recognition technology could help with wildlife management, but the products still need some fine tuning. “We saw lots of possible implications if this technology would work,” said TWS member...