wildlife

A coalition of animal welfare and wildlife advocacy groups plans to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over gray wolf protections, pointing to the killing of a wolf in Wyoming as an example of why the species needs…

Instead of the media blaming wind turbines for killing whales and dolphins, they blame conservatives for pointing it out.  According to the Daily Signal: When wind turbine …

But vampire bats represent a new threat because they feed on the blood of other animals. Their usual victims are livestock, and occasionally wild mammals and birds. Using their sharp front teeth, they make a small incision in their…

The National Rabies Management Program was established in 1997 to prevent the further spread of wildlife rabies. In 2007, canine rabies was eliminated in the US thanks to mandatory vaccination and licensing for dogs, but the risk from…

We created cattle by manipulating their wild cousins, aurochs, in Europe, Asia, and the Sahara beginning over 10,000 years ago. Unlike Frankenstein’s monster, who could never find a place in human society, cattle trotted into societies…

That has created a problem. Around 2010, soon after meeting this big, new predator that could outcompete and eat them, South Florida’s mammal populations collapsed. Large and medium-size mammals have been scarce for almost a decade,…

This story originally appeared in High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The first grainy film clip shows a black bear exploding out of the trail camera’s frame. In another, a mule deer stops munching…

Electronic scrutiny might have its place. That place, it seems, is every place.The wild, to the extent it exists in Ohio, was not so long ago a haven offering escape from everyday surveillance. It presented the prospect of retreat, even…

Wildlife cameras inside Cleveland Metroparks captured a historic bobcat sighting.Metroparks posted to its Instagram page saying their wildlife camera recorded a bobcat in a remote area within Cleveland Metroparks twice, once on…

Local Orange County health officials are alerting the public after a bat tested positive for rabies in Fountain Valley on Wednesday. The infected bat was discovered in the parking lot of a pickleball court located near 16400…