Bear sightings in Sierra Madre have increased in recent years, and city officials say they want the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to change its approach to dealing with the wild animals in the foothill community.
Plants & Animals
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A team of researchers has figured out a way to track the DNA left by brown bears guilty of breaking into aviaries in Poland to reveal the exact culprits—an important aspect of solving conflicts between humans and wildlife.
Plants & Animals
Apr 13, 2023
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Recent research highlights the potential for problems when pigs are relocated, often illegally for hunting
Plants & Animals
Apr 11, 2023
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The story of how ancient wolves came to claim a place near the campfire as humanity's best friend is a familiar tale (even if scientists are still working out some of the specifics). In order to be domesticated, a wild animal ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Apr 10, 2023
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Environmental Impact Assessments may hugely underestimate the effect that new developments have on wildlife, according to new research from the University of East Anglia. This is because they don't take into account how birds ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 6, 2023
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Pesticides have been detected in flowers not targeted with the chemicals that could be an additional, underestimated threat to pollinators according to new findings by Trinity and DCU, published in the Science of the Total ...
Ecology
Apr 6, 2023
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Australia has an ambivalent relationship with dingoes—to some they are almost magical representations of our arid landscapes, responsible for holding back a tide of foxes and feral cats, as found in some studies.
Plants & Animals
Apr 6, 2023
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Observations and mathematical models generally show climate change spreading animal diseases north, since host species tend to expand their territory to wherever the climate allows them to live.
Ecology
Apr 5, 2023
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A team of biologists and linguists from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, City University of New York, the State University of New York and the University of Seville has found evidence suggesting that wild African ...
Over the past 20 years, coronaviruses in wild bat populations have led to three major disease outbreaks in humans: SARS in 2002, MERS in 2012 and COVID-19. The latter triggered an ongoing global pandemic. In turn, this has ...
Ecology
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