Bottlenose dolphins in the Adriatic are increasingly following trawlers to scavenge for food, with baby dolphins learning the technique from their parents, a study has found. “These days the easiest way to find [bottlenose dolphins] is to look for trawlers,” said Giovanni Bearzi, a co-author of the study and the president of Dolphin Biology and Conservation in […]
Tag: Polar Bear
“Each seal is swimming for its life.” These seals must cross shark-infested waters to find a meal. Will they make it?
The BBC’s Planet Earth series has captured plenty of unprecedented animal behaviour, from a deep-sea vampire squid glowing in the dark to a hungry polar bear risking the tusks of a walrus to secure a meal. And the original 2006 series captured an incredible first-of-its-kind, slow-motion sequence of great white sharks hunting fur seals off Cape Town. Each dawn, […]
Toxins of the Past and Present: Why We Need the EPA
The water we drink, the air we breathe, and the wildlife we love are all at risk without the necessary environmental protections and regulations to keep us safe from harmful toxins and pollutants. At this very moment, long-standing programs and staff are being slashed from the agency charged with this very purpose: the Environmental Protection […]
Panya the pygmy hippo: how a tiny baby animal became a sensation
Name: Panya the pygmy hippo. Age: About three weeks. Appearance: Adorable, to a world-conquering degree. God, I’ve never wanted to hear about a three-week-old pygmy hippo more. Right? Everything is so bleak at the moment, only the sight of a tiny baby animal can save us now. How tiny are we talking? Oh, unbelievably tiny. […]
Ocean’s most powerful, ruthless killers: The world’s top 9 marine predators that rule the waves
In the ocean, everything relies on tiny plankton.These provide nutrients for animals at the bottom of the food web which are eaten by larger species, and so on. At the top of the food chain, large predators (often with huge teeth) have perfected their hunting strategies for millennia, giving them the best possible chance to […]
It Looks Like Even Your Car Isn’t Safe From Bears – ‘Bear Ripped Off All My Door Handles’
Growing up on the shores of Lake Superior and spending much of my life in the woods, I’ve had countless run-ins with black bears — but one Reddit post made me double-take at a bear’s full-blown car demolition. I’ve heard bears rummage through packs, scale trees, and swim through roaring rapids to get to food, […]
New study reveals how illegal wildlife trade intersects with organized crime in Canada
When most people hear terms like poaching, wildlife trafficking or illegal wildlife trade, they probably think of threatened species such as elephants, rhinos, tigers or sharks. Geographically, wildlife crime may feel like a problem confined to southern Africa or southeast and East Asia. Of course, these species have long been heavily trafficked, and those regions […]
Tell Your Representative: Don’t betray marine mammals by voting to gut the MMPA!
America’s waters are home to an incredible array of marine mammals – many species of whales, dolphins, manatees, sea otters, polar bears and more. Right now, those animals are protected from deadly threats by the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA). But this key law is under attack in Congress by a draft proposal to gut […]