Monterey Bay sea otters maintain kelp supply
In Monterey Bay, California, where kelp forests have decreased, sea otters are helping maintain pockets of kelp that can reseed barren areas in the future. In 2012, ...
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A win-win for farmers and wildlife?
Researchers are proposing what they hope will be a mutually beneficial solution both for low-income farmers in developing countries who are trying to protect their ...
WSB: A new raccoon hairdo can help researchers with identification
When Gregory Geller was developing ways to protect turtle nests, he paid a lot of mind to keeping out predators like raccoons. He designed electric fences, and he ...
Lack of sea otters hurts Alaskan reefs
A combination of climate warming and loss of sea otters is harming the reefs that underpin Alaskan kelp forests in the Aleutian Islands. “Despite the fact that ...
Lack of predators doesn’t change deer fawn survival rates
Deer fawn survival rates are similar in ecosystems without predators as in areas with coyotes, bobcats and black bears. Researchers were working on a long-term ...
Acquiring territory helps young red squirrels survive
Hungry predators like lynx and weasels give young red squirrels a dim prospect of reaching adulthood. But acquiring a territory earlier in the summer may be the ...
WS to launch nonlethal predation management projects
USDA-Wildlife Services has identified 12 states where it will implement nonlethal strategies to reduce or prevent depredation on livestock by wildlife. The fiscal ...
Climate affects which elk that wolves kill
Douglas Smith and his colleagues had been working on a two-decade-long project tracking gray wolf activity in Yellowstone when he began to notice something strange ...
Wild Cam: Human activity blocks African wild dog dispersal
Human structures and roadways present some of the largest barriers to the connectivity of endangered African wild dog populations in southern Africa. Researchers ...
Wild Cam: Researchers ID predators from saliva at kill sites
DNA sleuths are identifying predators from kill sites with the help of the saliva they leave on their prey. “Our broader study was transformed by this ...