One of the last places it was safe for families to feed ducks falls for the frenzy to eliminate Canada geese.
Keep reading Atlanta’s Duck Pond cracking down on Geese
 Crowds wondered why the dolphin, who wandered into an industrial superfund site, was left to die, thrashing in shallow water. Keep reading Dolphin dies in Gowanus Canal despite Brooklynites cheering it on  This VA squirrel has white, gray and rusty fur at all different lengths and angles. Can you figure out what’s wrong? Keep reading Reader question: what’s up with this squirrel’s raggedy fur?  Biologists use brain scans (and entertaining experiments and anecdotes) to show that crows, ravens and other corvids think like people. Keep reading Gifts of the Crow: brain scan proof these birds are devious, silly and smart  Great egrets hunt Japanese koi at Green-Wood Cemetery, where a South American monk parrot may have gotten sick from a raccoon. Keep reading Natives and non-natives mix it up at Green-Wood Cemetery  Europeans have embraced outdoor classes for little kids to reconnect them to the natural world. West coast parents have swarmed outdoor pre-K where toddlers stomp through rain, snow and mud. Now a teacher is bringing the Forest School philosophy to Brooklyn’s big park. What will the kids find in the urban woods? Keep reading Can outdoor education work in a New York City park?  The century old tradition of feeding elk outside Yellowstone could end up severely hurting the population by spreading chronic wasting disease. Keep reading How quickly will national elk feeding grounds spread chronic wasting disease?  By calling manta rays a vulnerable species, scientists hope to stop or at least track the market in its gills. Used in Chinese medicine, the ray population is down 30% in 10 years. Keep reading Manta rays get some protection from fishermen hunting their gills  Heidi, who was orphaned in NC and hand-raised, became a celebrity in Germany. She was fat and ultimately arthritis did her in. Keep reading Heidi dies. The fat, American, cross-eyed possum charmed the world from a German zoo  Two grown men threw rocks at a little brown bat perched 25 feet up on a midtown office building, causing it to fall, break its wing and have to be euthanized Keep reading Little Brown Bat stoned to death by Midtown workers |
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