Tag: Texas

South Texas’s Bracken Cave is home to 15 million Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) — the world’s largest known bat colony — and their use of the cave is changing...

As Christopher Schalk was conducting research on roadkill in Texas, he noticed the roadways were often lined for miles and miles with erosion control blankets — materials often required by...

A Texas appeals court has ruled that breeder deer are not private property, making them subject to state laws designed to limit the spread of chronic wasting disease from captive...

About 100 young green sea turtles have been stranded on the Texas coast due to high tides and flooding that followed May storms. The turtles “just couldn’t beat the waves,”...

In his 35 years studying ocelots (Leopardus pardalis), 42-year TWS member Michael Tewes has seen plenty of efforts to conserve them in his home state of Texas, but they haven’t...

Prey species such as tiger moths (Arctia caja) often use acoustics to deter approaching bats. But can people do the same thing? Sara Weaver, a doctoral candidate at Texas State...

In response to growing concerns by wildlife professionals regarding the negative biological impacts that the spread of diseases such as chronic wasting disease can have on native species like white-tailed...

The board of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society used a portion of the 2018-2019 Jim Teer Leadership Institute for Early Career Professional Training to work with Texas Chapter...

Red wolves (Canis rufus) were thought to be extinct in the wild, outside of a reintroduced population in North Carolina. But a pair of recent studies have found coyote (Canis...

Environmentalists worry a section of the proposed border wall between Mexico and the United States will cut through a Texas butterfly sanctuary. The 100-acre National Butterfly Center hosts over 200...