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Wild Cam: Discovering Cape Town’s little known urban cats
... Serieys, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cape Town, who presented her ongoing research at The Wildlife Society’s virtual 2020 Annual Conference. Serieys had long been interested in the effects of urbanization on wild ...
Wild Cam: Snow leopard spotted at lowest known elevation in southern distribution
... behind the snow leopard is very surprising,” said TWS member Meghna Bandyopadhyay, a PhD candidate at the Wildlife Institute of India who presented her ongoing research at The Wildlife Society’s virtual 2020 Annual Conference. [aesop_image ...
Wild Cam: Black-footed cats depend on rodent burrows
Black-footed cats depend on the burrows that other animals dig in the grasslands of southern Africa. But these vulnerable, tiny cats—which may be the rarest wild felines in Africa—may lose their habitat if the South ...
Wild Cam: Grizzlies tolerate tourists when salmon are scarce
For grizzlies in parts of British Columbia, tourists are easier to tolerate when the bears are hungry—but not for the reason you’re probably thinking. Wildlife managers from the Nuxalk Nation and British Columbia Parks wanted ...
Wild Cam: Frog saunas may ward off chytrid disease
... recover from chytrid typically develop resistance to the fungal disease, Waddle said. Credit: Anthony Waddle Into the wild—and your backyard Waddle’s team is now putting these setups near ponds around Sydney, where green and golden ...
Wild Cam: Jaguar predation on livestock limited in NE Mexico
... was taken back by the fierce look in its eyes. “It’s a magnificent beast,” he said. The wildlife managers prepared the tranquilizing dose in the gun, but “I was nervous—I think I was shaking,” he ...
Wild Cam: Drought brings drinking problems for Tequila bats
... winter. They also live year-round in parts of southern Mexico and Central America. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed both the Mexican long-nosed bat and the lesser long-nosed bat under the U.S. Endangered Species ...
Wild Cam: Watch coyotes hunt with badgers
Emma Balunek was combing through hours of trail camera footage in northeastern Colorado when she saw something surprising. Amidst the swift foxes, pronghorn, ravens and endless golden eagles was an unlikely pair: an American badger ...
Wild Cam: How feasible is beaver eradication in Argentina?
... spent his days trekking through the jagged landscapes of the Martial Mountains, walking along rivers through the wild forests and steppes of the southern tip of the Americas. The experience was idyllic—until he encountered the ...
Wild Cam: Rescuing salamanders from hurricane destruction
... they only consist of a few individuals. The ARC estimates only 300 to 500 exist in the wild, based on years of sampling and population modeling. “Their total range size is a tenth the size ...
Wild Cam: What do wolves eat in the high arctic?
... They were likely eons older than the undated stone rings the team would occasionally find in their campsites marking past tents from the pre-Inuit Dorset, Thule or other cultures that hunted muskoxen there in centuries ...
Wild Cam: When wolves kill, ravens saddle up to the table
... out they don’t,” said Matthias-Claudio Loretto, a researcher at the University of Veterinary Medicine’s Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology in Vienna, Austria. Researchers had known for decades that ravens (Corvus corax) associate with wolves (Canis ...
Wild Cam: Anteaters struggle with forest loss
... distinct biomes: the Pantanal and the Cerrado. The Pantanal is the world’s largest wetland, famous for its wildlife viewing and nicknamed the Brazilian Serengeti. To the Pantanal’s east is the much larger Cerrado biome, a ...
Wild Cam: Drones Survey Snow Leopards by Tracking Their Prey
... work was easy. Jackson’s team had to hike for two weeks just to get to their base camp in Nepal. “When we did our work, there were no [satellite] photos, no GPS, no digital camera ...
Wild Cam Series: Bobcat Ranges
This photo essay is part of a new series from The Wildlife Society featuring photos and video images of wildlife taken with camera traps. TWS Member Tracks Bobcat Habitat Camera traps have helped to bring ...
Wild Cam: Thermal cameras spot roosting birds in the dark
Thermal cameras are helping researchers focus on bird populations while the lights are out. Birds at roost aren’t always easy to survey due to the darkness and the fact they don’t move around much or ...
Wild Cam: Svalbard Reindeer rebound after near extirpation
... ‘Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!’ at some point,” Le Moullec said. Their work, published recently in the Journal of Wildlife Management, found that the population of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) was on the path to recovery after near ...
Wild Cam: Habitat restoration not enough to protect caribou
... study published in Biological Conservation, researchers found these restoration efforts had little effect on caribou and other wildlife. “This is boreal forest,” said lead author Erin Tattersall, who completed the research as a master’s student ...