What are moon bears? Where do moon bears live? Learn all about the beguiling moon bear in Heidi Quine’s expert guide Moon bears numbers continue to decline and we risk losing this enigmatic species, says Heidi Quine from Animals Asia. Learn all about moon bears in her expert guide What are moon bears The charismatic […]
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Senate Lets Plan Move Forward to Kill 500,000 Barred Owls in Controversial Wildlife Decision
The U.S. Senate has declined to stop a controversial U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) plan that would see nearly half a million barred owls killed in the Pacific Northwest to protect their threatened cousins, the northern spotted owls. According to The Guardian, the vote to block the plan failed 25–72, allowing the large-scale culling […]
Miracle Recovery for World’s Rarest and Strangest Deer – Just 39 Became 8,200
Tramping through coastal marshlands in eastern China, a strange looking deer roams freely in herds of hundreds; a remarkable recovery from where they had been just a few decades ago. Described in ancient China as a beast with the antlers of a deer, hooves of an ox, face of a horse, and tail of a […]
Why do-gooding animal rights activists are to blame for the bloody slaughter of 600 majestic African elephants
A three-ton bull elephant lies dead on the ground in a remote corner of Africa. His life has been snuffed out by a marksman’s bullet fired into his brain. In a few seconds it was all over. He will have known nothing. Within minutes of his death ten days ago, a wildlife vet was running […]
Orcas Team Up to Hunt Great White Sharks in Astonishing New Footage
Killer whales have once again shown the world why they’re among the ocean’s most intelligent and strategic hunters. According to PEOPLE, researchers captured rare footage in the Gulf of California showing orcas working together to hunt great white sharks and feast on their livers — a behavior previously only documented in South Africa. The study, […]
Galápagos had no native amphibians. Then it was invaded by hundreds of thousands of frogs
On the way to her office at the Charles Darwin research station, biologist Miriam San José crouches down near a shallow pond shrouded by vegetation and reaches deep into the foliage, pulling out a small green plastic box recorder. She left it there overnight to capture the infamous croaks of a Fowler’s snouted treefrog (Scinax […]
10 real-life zombies: These deadly brain-hijacking parasites can create suicidal rats, pulsating snails, dancing fish – and can even infect humans
It might sound like a horror film, but did you know that zombie parasites not only infect – they also use mind control to kill their hosts. Aoife Glass takes a look at some the world’s most horrific zombie parasites… Zombies are a popular trope in film and tv, but there are real-world parasites that […]
Climate change threatens unique ‘Samburu Special 5’ wildlife in arid East Africa
In the dry regions of East Africa lives a group of animals unlike any others. Known as the Samburu Special Five to safari operators in Kenya, they are the dry-adapted reticulated giraffe (Giraffa reticulata), Grévy’s zebra (Equus grevyi), beisa oryx (Oryx beisa), gerenuk (Litocranius walleri) and Somali ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes). But they are increasingly imperiled […]