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With more than half the world now living in cities and urban land cover expected to increase by about 1.2 million square ...
Are Wild Animals Really Just Like Us? ... Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Orca image from Christopher Michel via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY 2.0 / Bird and dolphin via Pixabay.
It seems that humans have always been fascinated by wild animals and compelled to capture and display them, with the first zoos appearing more than 4,000 years ago. Today, however, we know so much ...
Peter Brown stripped down his original 'Wild Robot' story for beginning readers, keeping the underlying message about a man-made device that learns how to care for others.
Not even wild animals are safe from Mexico’s cartel violence. Tigers, elephants, lions and monkeys were evacuated this week from a wildlife refuge in Culiacán, Sinaloa, a city overrun by cartel ...
A USDA program kills wild animals at the request of private livestock owners. NPR obtained exclusive documents to show how its employees manage wildlife.
Then there’s the pigeon story.Of all the grim capitalist crimes against American animals (and there is competition), among them are the 1840s extinction of our northern hemisphere penguin, the ...
And without keeping up with the virus's journey in wild animals, experts worry, humans will be caught unprepared and ill-equipped to tackle bird flu. "Ever since H5N1 [bird flu] ...
Wild animals can experience trauma and adversity too − as ecologists, we came up with an index to track how it affects them Published: October 21, 2024 8:44am EDT. Xochitl ...
You might see injured wild animals in fire areas. Here's what to do By Jill Replogle. Updated Jan 23, 2025 2:35 PM. Published Jan 15, 2025 4:16 PM ...
In “Eavesdropping on Animals: What We Can Learn From Wildlife Conversations,” George Bumann—artist, sculptor and Yellowstone wildlife guide—gently introduces another concept: peaceful ...