Tag: TWS2021

Yellow-bellied marmots can become habituated to human presence on hiking trails, but only to an extent. Constant vigilance of people nearby may cause the mammals to miss important meals before...

In the coastal rainforest of Ecuador, Jacquelyn Tleimat sometimes felt like her tree climbing skills were being judged. She and her colleagues hiked for miles, hacking vegetation away with machetes...

Mexican palm oil plantations in Mexico are associated with a lower diversity of birds migrating south from Canada and the United States for the winter. Birds have been declining for...

Long before wildlife managers struggled to translocate bison to new areas in an effort to recover lost herds, the giant bovines wandered across vast stretches of North America. While most...

Sediment dredged from the bottom of estuaries to improve shipping passages for boats can be formed into good island nesting habitat for coastal birds like black skimmers. Black skimmers are...

A rare salamander, endemic only to a few high elevation mountain tops in West Virginia, may lose all of its high-quality habitats by the end of the century due to...

Sun bears, Asiatic golden cats and pig-tailed macaques may sound like an exotic wildlife assemblage to many westerners, but these mammals play important roles in Myanmar’s ecosystems. However, many of...

In the coastal areas of Guyana, hunters get creative when trapping birds—sometimes “shocking” whole flocks with wires. Tying a 12-meter wire to a pole and laying it down in a...

Environmental DNA techniques can detect a deadly virus in amphibian ponds, giving wildlife managers critical information about how to best protect vulnerable amphibian species. Ranavirus is deadly to amphibians. “It’s...

Many studies focus on the effects of insect pests on forest vegetation. But new research shows that spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii), originally from Asia but now found widely in...