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Holidays 2019: Finding Quiet in a Noisy Season
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. It’s the most stressful time of the year. No matter where you tend to fall on that spectrum during the week preceding the end-of-the-year holidays, almost
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The Footsteps of Large Animals Fill Landscapes with Life
When you weigh anywhere from 1,000 to 14,000 pounds, you tend to leave huge, deep footprints wherever you walk. But more than just evidence of your passing through, those footprints, it turns out, can
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Will We Soon Be “Talking” with Dolphins and Whales?
Much like us, other animals have “languages” that they use in order to communicate with members of their own species. For example, prairie dogs have developed different “words” to describe various predators—barks, squeals and
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Wildlife Photo of the Week: Going Home
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose an elephant herd in Kenya. Photographer Yochi Levanon captured this amazing image
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Wildlife Photo of the Week: Amboseli Nightfall
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a family of elephants. Photographer Gary Herman took this shot while on
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Giving Tuesday: Saving 30 Percent of Earth by 2030
Some scientists, such as American biologist, naturalist, theorist and author E. O. Wilson, say that a majority of wild species will go extinct if humans don’t set aside at least 50 percent of the
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Elephants on Track
A sophisticated 22-pound GPS collar may be the most valuable bling on the African continent. Seven-ton elephants are now donning advanced satellite tracking devices that let their movements be monitored in real time—technology that’s
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Finding Harmony in Botswana
We stare in awe as three generations of lioness – a grandmother, mother and two cubs – saunter peacefully near our 4×4. Their blonde, sun-soaked coats blend harmoniously into the surrounding golden grass and
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