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California monarch numbers increase after record lows
Monarch butterflies are planning to spend their winters on the coast of California in greater numbers this year, according to surveys. More than 1,300 monarchs (Danaus plexippus) were reported at...
Wisconsin DNR sets conservative wolf harvest quota
Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources set the quota for the upcoming wolf hunting season at 130 animals, contravening the state’s Natural Resources Board. The DNR biologists had recommended a quota...
Warmer weather means duller dragonflies
As climates warm, many dragonfly species are losing dark pigmentations that attract more heat—but may also attract more mates Since the time of Charles Darwin, scientists have known that organisms...
Webinar Series
The Wildlife Society’s Nutritional Ecology Working Group has facilitated a webinar series showcasing the diversity of nutritional ecology research. All webinars can be watched live, and they all are recorded...
WSB: Adapting barriers keeps out wily elephants in India
Figuring out what kind of barrier will keep elephants from raiding farms in India is difficult—unless you can out-think one of the animal world’s top thinkers. While revered by some...
Watch: For a declining shorebird, a South Carolina island is a crucial refuge
Early one morning in the spring of 2014, Felicia Sanders, a biologist with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, was out on Deveaux Bank, a small island 20 miles...
Isotope mapping sheds light onto monarch journeys
Pre-COVID-19 pandemic, University of Ottawa biology student Megan Reich enjoyed the road trip of a lifetime, crisscrossing the East Coast of the United States in search of milkweed. The plant...
New USFWS grants support wetlands, endangered species
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced new grants for both wetlands conservation and endangered species conservation in recent weeks. The Migratory Bird Conservation Commission approved more than $34...
Watch: Inbreeding has saved New Zealand parrot
Endangered kakapos have surprisingly healthy genetic diversity despite 10,000 years of inbreeding in their native New Zealand environments. The International Union for Conservation of Nature listed kakapos (Strigops habroptila) as...
Pocket gophers glow under UV light
Researchers are finding more and more species with a surprising trait—they glow under ultraviolet light. The latest to be discovered is a biofluorescent pocket gopher. J.T. Pynne, a recent Ph.D....