Animal behavior
Mayke the Malinois Found Jaguar Scat in Arizona
In 2012, a Belgian Malinois washed out of U.S. Border Patrol training because she froze around big trucks. She went on to…
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Conservation
Alaska Targets Grizzlies Hunting Muskoxen as Herd Recovers
In 2012, Alaska wildlife managers tried to save an Arctic muskox herd without launching a broad war on predators. Instead of clearing…
American Kestrels
The Bal-Chatri Trap Caught 376 American Kestrels
When a wildlife biologist needs to catch a live hawk or falcon from a roadside power line to put a band on…
Conservation
Escaped Captive Elk Renewed Fears of Red Deer Hybrids
In 1993, Montana game wardens sent a tissue sample from an elk killed near Elliston to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service…
Coyotes
Chicago Firefighters Rescue Coyote Stranded on Lake Michigan Ice
At 9:40 a.m. on December 17, 2010, a caller along the Chicago lakefront reported a stray dog stranded on the ice off…
Elephant Mosquitoes
Elephant Mosquito Larvae Hunt Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes
The elephant mosquito is the largest mosquito in North America. It physically cannot bite, but its young spend their lives slaughtering the…
Animal behavior
Navy Trained Killer Whales and a Pilot Whale for Deep-Sea Salvage
In October 1968, the U.S. Navy captured two male killer whales in Puget Sound and a short-finned pilot whale in the Catalina…
Alligator
Historical Archive: Alligator Attack on Lake Gibson, Lakeland, Florida – Grand Junction News, November 11, 1899
A fourteen-year-old girl jumped off a dock in central Florida, was grabbed by the leg by an alligator before she hit the…
Black bears
Black Bear Walks 1,000 Miles Back to Great Smoky Mountains Campsite
In July 2022, wildlife biologists at Great Smoky Mountains National Park trapped a five-year-old female black bear at a backcountry campsite. She…
Animal behavior
El Jefe the Jaguar Returned to Mexico After Four Years in Arizona
On the evening of November 19, 2011, a man named Donnie Fenn was hunting mountain lions with hounds in a dry canyon…
Lynx
The Lynx Who Walked Off the Map: How a Yukon Cat Named Max Ended Up in an Alaskan Chicken Coop
On an October evening in 2016, a woman named Linda Lohse was looking out of her kitchen window at her property in…
Mountain Lions
The Cat Who Lived in Hollywood: The Full Story of P-22, the Mountain Lion Who Made Los Angeles His Home
Why the mountain lion under the Los Feliz house made headlines around the world, and what his life actually looked like before…