Tag: weasels

To learn more about the types of environments that river otters prefer in northern Wisconsin, old data on animal density can sometimes reveal new insights.  River otters are harvested for...

When Clayton Lamb was trapping grizzly bears for a research project to understand bear survival and movement in southeast British Columbia, he noticed that some bears were missing their toes....

In the mid-1900s, fishers were extirpated from Washington state, despite being found historically in various parts of the U.S. Pacific Northwest. But high demand and prices for their pelts in...

Two decades of wolverine research conducted across the northern part of the globe has revealed that the main obstacle to their success is habitat loss, though climate change and other...

The best way to track down Atlantic salt marsh mink, it turns out, may be by using an upside-down bucket floating on a small raft. Atlantic salt marsh mink are...

Katie Moriarty has been studying members of the weasel family for the past 20 years. At a special U.S. Forest Service presentation this month, Moriarty, a research scientist at the...

Great white sharks may be taking a bite out of sea otter recovery efforts, according to a new survey by the U.S. Geological Survey. “It’s quite perplexing. We’ve been working...