Humongous Polyphemus Moth hatches–sorry, ecloses–from one of two mystery cocoons downed from oak trees during the harsh winter.
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 Red-eared slider hatchlings, nesting snapping turtles and sunning logs abound in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. Keep reading Prospect Park overfloweth with turtles  KY wants to be the first state in the Eastern Flyway to hunt Sandhill cranes. Watch out whooping cranes. This is the same route endangered whooping cranes take and sandhill hunters keep shooting them. Keep reading Kentucky wants to open hunting on eastern population of Sandhill Cranes  Neb. state senator Tyson Larson wants to force the state’s 2 horse rescue groups to take any horse and divert grain inspection funds to horsemeat inspection.  Their lives are much better now than they once were. BooBoo, a black bear, was used to pay for a car in Iowa, sold to a dealer who wanted the bear to draw in customers. Tigers were about to be used in a canned hunt. The Coati Cocoa spent two years in a cage in a basement. Keep reading Feed Zoo Animals? Yes, At This NJ Rescue Facility  For the first two years they’re going to just kill as many deer as they can, regardless of gender. Then they’ll switch to killing 3 does to every 2 bucks. Killing bucks doesn’t really do anything to the population; one buck will mate with many does. They could kill a lot fewer animals if they would lean more heavily on the does–and right from the start. Keep reading Coyotes Couldn’t Control Valley Forge Wolves, Critics Say. Tell that to Yellowstone Elk  Sometimes the most common animals really put on a show, making them more fun to see than some rare bird you only catch a glimpse of. On a trip to New Jersey’s pinelands this weekend, I got to see two sea gulls fight over a snake. Keep reading Sea Gulls Play Tug of War with Snake  Alvin was the first out. He climbed up the enormous oak tree, then moved on to some cedars in a neighbor’s yard. He seemed so excited at his new-found agility, he kept climbing up and down by the trunk, using the branches like they were rungs on a ladder. Keep reading Fireman Releases Squirrels He Rescued From Fire Into His Backyard  “[New York state conservation officials] just held a summit and decided to pluck them out of the wild, but where to put them?” says Kasimoff, one of only a handful of people across the state that can care for bats, which require a special license because they can carry rabies. Kasimoff currently is minding 30 bats at the Bat World Big Apple, a shelter she runs out of her home on Long Island as part of Bat World International. New York state in particular wants to save the little brown bats–if any are left. Keep reading NY Considers Capturing Bats to Save Them  The only real problem with having them is that they are so cute and distracting. Though, there have been regular escapes and safaris around the apartment, which haven’t been much fun, at least for me. Keep reading Return of the Fireman’s Squirrels |
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