Researchers are studying a possible hybrid species of iguana found in the Cayman Islands that could pose a new risk to a native variety that officials have declared critically endangered.
Ecology
Sep 21, 2016
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The use of animal translocations as a means to mitigate construction projects and other human developments is a widespread animal-management tool. A paper published today, produced through collaboration of conservationists ...
Ecology
Jan 16, 2015
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The San Diego Zoo has two new arrivals: a pair of endangered African penguin chicks.
Plants & Animals
May 9, 2019
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A team of researchers from San Diego Zoo's Institute for Conservation Research and the China Research and Conservation Centre for the Giant Panda has found that vocalizations play an important role in the lead-up to copulation ...
Zoo keepers are probing why a male Malayan tiger killed a four-year-old female tiger it had only just met, when they were brought together for breeding purposes in California.
Plants & Animals
Dec 23, 2013
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She is a mother of three, grandmother of 16, great-grandmother of 12 and great-great-grandmother of three. She recently had surgery to remove a malignant tumor, but doctors say she's doing well.
Plants & Animals
Dec 22, 2016
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One of the last northern white rhinos on the planet has died in a reserve in Kenya, leaving the sub-species on the verge of extinction, experts said Saturday.
Ecology
Oct 19, 2014
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It's a girl! Finally.
Plants & Animals
May 13, 2015
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The island scrub-jay is the only island endemic passerine species in the continental United States. Although it is not classified as endangered, the species faces a number of threats to its long-term survival, and climate ...
Ecology
Dec 27, 2011
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Conservationists often work to save species without having long-term population data. That can present major challenges for the science of saving species, as this kind of information is critical for making informed conservation ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 2, 2018
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