Each year, thousands of migratory mule deer and pronghorn antelope journey northwest from their winter homes in the Green River Basin, a grassland valley in western Wyoming, to their summer homes in the mountainous landscape ...
Ecology
Jan 12, 2021
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A 10-year study of mule and black-tailed deer has found unique subspecies created by the animals' responses to climate change thousands of years ago.
Evolution
Mar 26, 2009
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On a typical June day in Yellowstone, it's not unusual to see hundreds of bison grazing in the Lamar Valley. The herds appear to aimlessly move back and forth through meadows threaded by a winding river, just passive figures ...
Ecology
Nov 18, 2019
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In the arid American West, wildfires now define summer. Recent years have seen some of the worst wildfires in recorded history. Climate change, the loss of Indigenous burning practices and a century of fire suppression are ...
Ecology
Oct 19, 2022
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A plan to use helicopter-mounted sharpshooters to kill nearly 2,000 invasive mule deer roaming the mountains of Santa Catalina Island has ignited a storm of protest among residents of the popular resort destination and prompted ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 2, 2023
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The population of endangered wild foxes on Santa Catalina Island soon could recover to levels not seen in a decade since canine distemper decimated them, biologists said this week.
Ecology
Mar 2, 2010
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It's as if deer showed up for a moving feast, only to stumble, balk and let the best food go stale.
Ecology
Oct 6, 2022
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An analysis of mule deer migration routes in two areas of Wyoming documents the idea that the animals choose readily traversable pathways where they also can find food.
Ecology
Oct 26, 2018
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Like many out-of-state visitors, the lone gray wolf that trotted across the border from Oregon has taken a liking to California.
Ecology
Jan 2, 2013
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How does a bighorn sheep say "cheese?"
Ecology
Jan 17, 2018
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