TWS2020: Where do belugas spend their summers?
Beluga whales are likely choosing where to spend their summers in estuaries based on the prey available, researchers found. The western Hudson Bay is home to the ...
Canada
Caribou numbers drop in Labrador as climate warms
Labrador is relatively free of the landscape changes that have caused declines in caribou populations in other parts of Canada and Alaska. But even there, caribou ...
Cross-border cooperation nets feral swine boar
Cooperation is often the key to successful wildlife management, especially when the species crosses international borders. Feral swine, also wild pigs (Sus scrofa) ...
COVID-19 takes mental toll on grad students
A pair of surveys show the psychological toll that the novel coronavirus outbreak is having on graduate students. A study in the United States found signs of ...
Wild Cam: Types of scavengers vary based on live prey abundance
It was the summer of 2015 in Yukon, Canada when Michael Peers and his fellow researchers deployed a trail camera near a snowshoe hare carcass to see what it might ...
Wild Cam: Herring gull steal food from hard-working puffins
The surrounding crowd was raucous, and the smell was even worse. But Kaylee Busniuk weathered the distractions like a champ, announcing the unfolding action in a ...
Agencies create new plan in response to declining caribou
Wildlife management agencies have developed a new strategy to halt the decline of barren-ground caribou populations across Canada’s Northwest Territories. Many ...
Rare white bear genes less common than previously believed
A gene that dictates the rare white variant of black bears known in coastal British Columbia as Kermode bears is less common in places that were supposedly hotspots ...
Ray Alisauskas receives Caesar Kleberg award
When Ray Alisauskas first started researching Arctic waterfowl in 1983, their numbers were on a steady upswing. When he joined Canadian Wildlife Service in 1989, ...
DNA reveals multiple rattler populations in British Columbia
Hundreds of genetic samples have revealed multiple distinct populations of western rattlesnakes in the northern part of their range in British Columbia. “Western ...