Capturing animals encompasses methodological approaches used to physically restrain or confine individual organisms or groups for study, monitoring, or management. Techniques include passive methods such as live traps, mist nets, pitfall traps, and funnel traps, and active methods such as hand capture, noosing, or net-gunning, each selected based on target species’ behavior, size, and habitat. Method design emphasizes minimizing stress, injury, and mortality, adhering to ethical and legal standards, and often incorporates species-specific baiting, timing, and placement strategies. Capture methods are integral to mark–recapture studies, population estimation, health assessments, telemetry deployment, and translocation or removal programs.
In a new study led by University of Delaware researchers Aaron Carlisle and Ed Hale, researchers point to concerns in the international trade of sand tiger sharks, a critically endangered shark species globally, for display ...
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Research by Oregon State University biologists suggests that toxic air stemming from wildfires won't necessarily prompt animals to flee in search of better breathing conditions. The study of American robins led by OSU's Jamie ...
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Newcastle University researchers have demonstrated that plastic bottles attached to fishing nets can help dolphins detect and avoid being caught and killed in the deadly gear.
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The scenes are biblical. Tens of thousands of rodents scattering across canola fields, behind sheds, into machinery. River fish with bellies full of mice. Carcasses littering the street, the sidewalk, outside your home. In ...
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A new estimate of insect species globally finds that there may be 8 million to 14 million more species than people thought, with few of them discovered.
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Australia is home to unusual mammals not found anywhere else—consider the platypus, Tasmanian devil or red kangaroo. But did you know our understanding of this continent's incredible mammalian diversity is still incomplete?
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Jun 25, 2026
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Many bat species emit echolocation calls and use the returning echoes to find their way, detect the presence of fluttering insects, and locate and catch them. A new study investigated this behavior in greater horseshoe bats ...
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Indonesia's government is racing to capture the last-known Bornean rhino in the wild in a bid to preserve the species through in vitro fertilization, a government official told AFP on Friday.
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Darin McNeil, Ph.D., an assistant professor of wildlife management in the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, is partnering with the University of Pittsburgh and others to help ...
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It's an insect everybody loves to hate. Pesky mosquitoes will be out in swarms as the weather warms up across the U.S.—and their bites aren't just itchy. They can transmit pathogens that can cause diseases like West Nile ...
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