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The coyote is often described as the most vocal of North America’s mammals. While there’s a lot of overlap in the sounds that coyotes, dogs and other canid species make—from startled huffs to whines of greeting, and from antagonistic growls to barks of alarm—coyotes take “language” to whole other level.
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American attitudes toward wild animals are growing more positive, according to a new study published just last month in the international journal Biological Conservation. Between 1978 and 2014, our thinking about eight historically stigmatized species—including bats, coyotes, vultures, sharks and wolves—were found to be significantly more favorable. On the surface, that sounds like good news.
Conservation
This is the dirty fact I’ve come to recognize: we humans won’t allow wolves to live on our planet. We won’t stop until the last one of them is gone. If you don’t believe me, look at what’s happening in our own country. Then, look around the world.
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“July 2016 was the 379th consecutive month with temperatures at least nominally above the 20th-century average,” says the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. July 2016 was also the 40th July in a row of above average temperatures. Those statements should shock you because they’re undeniable facts.
Nature & Wildlife
The woolly mammoth—an animal that went extinct 4,000 years ago—is currently being considered for legal protection under conservation trade rules. “How that can be?” you might well ask. The answer lies in a story that’s entwined with some very modern-day issues: climate change and the rampant poaching of today’s elephants.
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Bells have served as communication devices since ancient times. Throughout history, various cultures have reshaped and remodeled them to express different things.
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We’re currently living in the midst of what scientists call the sixth mass extinction, the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years.
Videos
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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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.
Nature & Wildlife
Under water, on land and in the air, few countries on the planet have the readily accessible wildlife diversity of Belize. And if you take into account the fact that it is one of the smallest countries in the world, arguably nowhere else can compare.
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With our warming climate, some plants are managing to hitch a ride to Antarctica. Will they colonize and thereby change the continent?
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Scarface is dead. Otherwise known as Bear No. 211, the Yellowstone National Park bruin was shot and killed just outside the park in Gallatin National Forest in November 2015. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed the death just two weeks ago, on April 25, 2016.
