Videos
Video: Rhino Relocation
Watch as a critically endangered black rhino is moved to a safer, more spacious location—farther away from poachers.
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Videos
Video: Urban Coyote
Throughout human history, coyotes have been known as Creators and Destroyers, Tricksters and clever Simpletons. They are paradoxes on four legs. Perhaps the reason we humans can’t seem to neatly categorize the coyote is because it is one of the most adaptable animals in the world.
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Nature & Wildlife
Coyotes and Badgers, Incorporated
For much of recorded human history, whenever coyotes and humans have come in contact, it is the coyotes that lose—big-time. But unlike many species that have succumbed to extinction under a similar scenario, somehow these wild canids have managed to survive and even thrive.
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Nature & Wildlife
New monkey species discovered in Amazon
Scientists have discovered a new species of monkey on an expedition into an unexplored part of the Brazilian Amazon. The monkey is a new species of titi, or Callicebus, monkey, and features different colored markings on its head and tail never before been observed in other monkeys of the same group.
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Videos
Video: From a Lion’s Point of View
Recent new technology has allowed us to get a glimpse into other creatures’ lives like never before. It seems that every day, we’re learning more about the incredible feats—and the normal days—of the beings who share the planet with us.
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Nature & Wildlife
Some Folks Call Me “Gutpile”
When I am not guiding or traveling, you can find me residing in the quirky little fishing village (though some argue it is primarily a drinking village with a fishing problem) of Homer, Alaska.
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Conservation
The Species Numbers Game
When it comes to environmental and wildlife issues, it seems that the more alarming the statistics are, the more likely it is that they will command our attention and move us into action.
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Conservation
It’s Raining Birds
Instead of waking to falling snow as many of us did on New Year’s Day 2011, people in Beebe, Arkansas, rose to find thousands of birds—grackles, starlings and red-winged blackbirds—falling from the sky, dead. An aerial photo revealed that the carcasses fell within a one-mile stretch of Beebe.
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Nature & Wildlife
Churchill: Home of the Pizzly?
As the Arctic continues to warm, it comes as no surprise that cold-adapted species, such as polar bears, are moving north in an effort to survive, while those that favor more moderate temperatures are expanding into regions that have now become hospitable habitats for them.
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Videos
Video: Black Bears Ask, “Is It Your Backyard, or Mine?”
A guy in a bad bear suit may not be the best spokesperson for an audience of serious nature enthusiasts, but this video that uses one does, in the end, ask an important question for all of us to consider.
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Videos
A Look Back at Biodiversity; Forecast for 2011
The arrival of a new year always prompts us to take a look back at the one just passed; to summarize it, to put closure on it. It was about a year ago that the United Nations proclaimed 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity.
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Conservation
“Assisting Migration” Could Be Aiding Extinction
As our 2010 calendars now come down off the walls and we look at the crisp, new, blank pages of 2011, we can’t help but wonder what this New Year has in store for the world and for us.