Tag: Yukon

Canada lynx don’t vary much in color. They usually have coats of silvery gray that turns reddish brown in the summer. But researchers recently documented a lynx that’s completely black....

It was raining when researchers fit a female wolf with an Argos radio tracking collar in 1991—one of the first times the technology had been used in such a way....

As April Martinig was studying red squirrel dispersal in the Yukon, she got to know the squirrels pretty well. Over time, she found, their behavior was pretty consistent. Squirrels that...

The climate began to change drastically in Yukon at the same time that a new invasive species was spreading across the continent, outcompeting large mammals that lived there and driving...

Even though red squirrels are a solitary species, knowing their neighbors can help them survive. “Solitary doesn’t mean asocial,” said Erin Siracusa, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of...

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...

As the Fortymile caribou herd populations booms, the Yukon government is allowing hunting of the herd for the first time since 1995. The government imposed a ban after the herd...

TWS member April Martinig can relate to red squirrels. Finding an apartment in Edmonton, Alberta is about as tough as it is for a squirrel in Yukon to find a...

Since the Kluane Red Squirrel Project opened in Canada’s Yukon in 1987, researchers have captured data on generations of North American red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) in the region. “What Jane Goodall...

North American red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) born earlier than those in nearby litters are more likely to survive because they get a head start on finding a vacant territory to...