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It’s Thanksgiving morning 2016, and many of you are probably looking forward to enjoying a rather bountiful lunch or dinner later today. For a lot of you, the starring item on the menu will be a big turkey.
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We are losing animal species at an alarming, unprecedented rate, and our wild places are increasingly coming under attack.
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Black Lives Matter. Blue Lives Matter. Veterans Matter. You could probably name a dozen other organizations that work to convince us that all human lives have value. And while most of us can probably get behind the majority of these causes, it turns out that a third of us think nonhuman-animal lives matter, too.
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This week, on Thursday, August 25, the National Park Service will celebrate its centennial. This year has been filled with campaigns and events to commemorate our shared and cherished public lands. But underneath all the festivities lies a dark shadow.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a short eared owl coming in for a landing on a post in England. Photographer Nigel Bell studied the owls in the area for weeks before he was able to capture the right shot.
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For travelers, wildlife strikes to airplanes are no laughing matter. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the number of wildlife strikes to civil aircraft annually has increased 7.4-fold: from 1,851 in 1990 to a record 13,668 in 2014.
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Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose an owl in Canada. Photographer Tin Sang Chan snapped the moment a great gray owl soared over the snowy landscape. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
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We just passed the unofficial middle of summer, July 4. With that marker comes a usual complaint: there’s nothing to watch on TV. But now that most regular programs are on hiatus, I’ve found something far more fascinating: spying on the real-time lives of wild animals.
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Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected polar bears in Alaska. Photographer Yaron Schmid witnessed a polar bear and her two cubs swim up to a whale carcass and feed while gulls swarmed around them.
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Just two weeks ago, June 20-26, 2016, we celebrated the annual National Pollinator Week—or you may have observed it if you knew it was National Pollinator Week. Most likely, you didn’t. Some beekeepers would like to change that. One, in particular.
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We’re always delighted when we find evidence of extreme intelligence in the “others,” such as when we learn that crows crack nuts open by using passing cars and gorillas dismantle snares to thwart poachers. While primate and corvid intelligence is well known, what may be a little less apparent is the intellectual power of parrots.
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It’s the day after Memorial Day, the unofficial start of the summer season. While the summer solstice is still a ways to go—June 20—after Memorial Day, vacations start and movie production companies bring out what they hope will be their “summer blockbusters.”
